Archive for December, 2008

A new year’s eve pick and mix of our most popular and favourite posts of the year – linking up a mere smattering of our content. Putting it together reminded us what an amazing 12 months it’s been. As hinted, 2009 is going to be …

In with: Kew’s 250th anniversary – may your New Year be filled with flowers. Out with: gun crime – let’s not have any more stories like this one about a Greenford 14 year old being shot. Good bye to: Harold Pinter, whose funeral was in …

Future historians of 21st century London drinking culture may learn much from the fact that a local council is offering bar and club staff a free one-day course on how to handle drunks. Employees at nightspots in Westminster are taught essentials like appropriate body language, …

We here at Londonist like to think of ourselves as a forward thinking bunch and the latest honours list should have us sneering at such an archaic and elitist exercise. But, when we looked at it properly, we couldn’t help making small ‘yay’ noises. Six …

What was for Lunch in 2008 by Tiki Chris, on Flickr Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. How was lunch in 2008? Good, for the most part. Here are a few lessons we’re taking away from …

A potential war about to erupt in SW17? Read More. No they don’t by Cabbie’s Capital. Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool or email us at londonist at gmail dot com.

Where? Sun-shy network of alleys between Cornhill and Lombard Street. View Larger Map What? With the notable exception of snack machines, change is inevitable. And so, as one year transmorphogrophosises into the next, we paid a visit to Change Alley in the very heart of …

The London Housing Market ain’t looking good. At last: action on East European beggars as a mass ASBO is issued in Westminster. Meet Spike, Harrow’s furry adhesive reminder for women to be wary of date rape. Another for our list of where not to be …

You learn something new everyday. This Londonista just learned that those little food service lifts in pubs and restaurants (see pic) are called ‘Dumbwaiters’. Never has a word been more appropriate than at 3am on Christmas Day, when an as-yet-unnamed barman (let’s call him ‘DumbBarMan’) …

Photo by Simon Annand Drawing on the antagonism between authorship, reputation and plagiarism, Marina Carr’s reworking of King Lear, The Cordelia Dream, is a clever, self-referential analysis of our human desire to create immortality through art – at whatever personal cost. The Royal Shakespeare Company …