Archive for February, 2009

Now it’s really rather rare for Londonist fulsomely to praise a government initiative. Lambast and satire is more our style. But something rather encouraging has caught our eye from the Local Government Association. They are today calling for the government to enable councils to intervene …

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: What does the …

97.The Thief Among The Dead Beneath the streets of London exist many corpse-inhabited pits in which thousands of victims of the plague were unceremoniously buried. One eerie incident connected with the coming of the plague took place during the extraordinarily hot June of 1665. As …

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Headline says it all, really. Just a reminder that there will be no Tube services to Blackfriars from today until late 2011, because of foundation work for a major redevelopment of the mainline station (and routine Tube engineering closures this weekend). The work will see …

Naomi Watts and Clive Owen in The International / image courtesy of Sony Pictures The weekly round-up of film reviews continues… A film where the baddie is a big bank? How very zeitgeist. Clive Owen is rumpled and dour, accompanied by Naomi Watts in The …

Pigs might fly It was always going to happen. The thrusting translucent chimney planned for Battersea riverside and dubbed ‘the spark plug’ has been nixed. The 250 m tower, designed by Rafael Viñoly, was removed from the masterplan after developers ‘caved in’ to public dissatisfaction …

A group of Londonist contributors and friends will be out creating another Alternative Pub Crawl. With the whiff of Valentine’s Day still lingering behind us and a generally pervy bent of mind, we are creating the fairly phallocentric Rude and Lewd Pub Crawl. Starting at …

The Queen has opened Haig House, the new Borough HQ of the British Legion. For some reason, getting permission to film movies about terrorism in London isn’t very easy. Plans for the container port at London Gateway have been put on hold. Olympic policing is …

Image by Mr November Alexander Lebedev, who snapped up the Evening Standard a few weeks ago, may soon distribute the title in Moscow, according to an interview that the former KGB operative gave to the Guardian. Lebedev sees the newspaper as a key part of …