Archive for October, 2008

New Immigration Fears…

With Londoners more worried about immigration issues than anything else (!), there will be widespread panic about this sinister new development. A bold, bright brick man has been washed up on Brighton Beach, and there are fears that he may be heading for the capital. …

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Extra, Extra

Bugger all boozing on the tube beefs Bob Sculptor’s wife sits on art thief while a have a go hero pensioner foils jewellery smash and grab. Pardon the witches! Not a seasonal PR stunt at all. And East London’s to be renamed…. but not here. …

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Battling For Kindness

Londonist likes a good campaign as much as anyone else, which is why we backed the efforts of Team Nice to make London a nicer place to be, putting out 1,000 ‘nice’ tokens into circulation to acknowledge good deeds. Channel 4′s new ‘Battlefront’ programme aims …

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‘This Artist Blows’ up a Storm

If you like your art controversial with a sprinkling of black humour and a side order of deliberate provocation, then we may have just the exhibition for you. The SaLon Gallery in Notting Hill is currently featuring works by Sussex Muslim artist Sarah Maple, and …

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Fear Of The Dark At London Bridge Experience

A zombie is not just for Halloween, but for all family occasions. Which is something we learned when we took a deep breath, grabbed a teenage family member and went for a special Halloween themed bonding session at the London Bridge Experience special event Fear …

Londonist Gets Man-Pampered

In the wildest dream that Londonist never had, one of our correspondents received a straight razor shave from our facial hair expert, Francisco Jinoco of Sharps Barber and Shop, followed by a cocktail in a 17th century hall lined with Corinthian marbled columns and packed …

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Preview: Battle Of Ideas

Wade into the white heat of intellectual combat this weekend: the 2008 Battle of Ideas erupts tomorrow at the Royal College of Art, with experts wielding their Socratic dialogue and Hegelian dialectics like broadswords swung by knights of old. We haven’t got nearly enough time …

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Stadium Fantasium

The main athletics stadium for the 2012 Games is years away from completion, yet the project’s post-2012 fate has suffered more slings and arrows of outrageous rumour than your average Fawlty Towers cast member’s granddaughter. Stories that it could become West Ham’s new home, see …

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Preview: Sheltered – The Bus Stops Here

Much maligned as the impromptu canvas of the expletive-loving graffitist and the inevitable arena of post-pub violence, London’s bus stop’s have been given a long-overdue shred of attention by graduate students at Kingston University. Sheltered: The Bus Stops Here features designs for the ideal bus …

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London’s Lexicon #57

Fighting extremism with pom-poms in Kensington. Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.