Archive for January, 2009

Boris Johnson Chews The Cud At Davos With The Mayor Of Buenos Aires And A Long Tie Boris Johnson used a radio interview broadcast from Davos to call for bankers to give up their bonuses (or part of their salary) to charitable causes. Seems fair …

Tomorrow is the day. We’ll be up bright and early, braving the 1st of February chill to see if we can complete the Patterson Challenge. We’ll be twittering our progress if our fingers don’t freeze so follow us from the warmth of your snuggly home …

Populist brings you a bite sized round up of the best of Londonist this week. Catch up on the coolest, quirkiest, most recommended and talked about stories and find out what’s hot and what’s happening for the week ahead. In the news: As if conflict …

Under the same logic that once prompted Del Boy Trotter to emblazon his Robin Reliant with the legend “New York – Paris – Peckham”, the world’s dedicated followers of fashion might have to add a new destination on their itineraries. According to TV squawker and …

93. Acton’s Phantom Monks Alongside white and grey ladies, the ‘monk’ has to be one of the most symbolic of ghostly legends around Britain. Such figures signify the peace and tranquillity of old abbeys and priorys, as they walk or glide, like shadows, adorned in …

At its official world première after two years in gestation, Brazilian-British collaboration Hotel Medea is about as far as one can get from an ordinary night at the theatre. The performance by Zecora Ura and the Urban Dolls Project announces itself with an unapologetic challenge: …

Image by See Wah The Charing Cross Road-based crime and mystery bookstore, Murder One, is set to close for good today, with the knife-wielding assassin none other than that perfidious, inscrutable villain known only as ‘consumer apathy‘. After spending the past few years trying to …

Catch top notch free dance, music, film and photography courtesy of brilliant choreographer and Southbank Artist in Residence, Rafael Bonachela, filling the public spaces of the Royal Festival Hall with some of his favourite things from 4.30pm. It doesn’t look like Raf himself will be …

Marketing is undoubtedly one of the emerging arts in 21st Century London (discuss), and it is hard not to admire some of the cleverer stunts that its exponents pull. Well, here’s another one – but one with perhaps greater ethical and (syn)aesthetical appeal. Clive Christian …

Appalling tragedy in Croydon today as a young father is murdered on his way to visit his new born son. Amy’s been burgled. Let’s face it: Paris isn’t entirely of this world, now is she? The Origins of Darwin look set to evolve as a …