Archive for June, 2009

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Art Preview: Rooftop Sculpture Park in Peckham

Hope you don’t get too cross when we get all over-excited about stuff, but occasionally (alright, quite often) things come along which are soooo good that we can’t wait to share. Like this. A ‘pop-up’ sculpture gallery on the top two floors of Peckham’s (normally …

Oxford Street Fashion Team by pit van meeffe

Extra, Extra

Oxford Street Fashion Team by pit van meeffe Extremely depressing: 82-year old woman repeatedly stabbed Extremely optimistic: Boris gets on board for World Cup 2018 bid Extremely a la mode: Oxford Street to host high street fashion week Extremely dreamy: Johnny Depp in town for …

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Event Preview: 2009 Summer Science Exhibition @ Royal Society

Once a year, the world’s oldest scientific organisation, the Royal Society, puts on a free show of the cutting, thrusting and eye-poking edge of UK research in a Summer Science Festival. You simply walk in, wander around the marble halls and soak in the science. …

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Help Run A 10 Mile Domino Rally

And so begin the Olympic public art participatory opportunities! Station House Opera are creating a massively long domino rally across the five Olympic boroughs on Sunday 26th July and they need your help. If you can be available for 4 hours that afternoon then, apart …

Goldsboro: shelves and shelves of first editions

Biblio-Text: Marchpane / Goldsboro Books

Continuing our amble round Cecil Court‘s independent bookshops Our first ports of call during our rummage round Cecil Court are Marchpane and Goldsboro Books. With its fantastic window display and Dalek (a bloody Dalek!), Marchpane is clearly a seller of children’s books. But, much like …

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Review: Ideas Exchange at Hoxton Apprentice with Prue Leith

With Prue Leith – renowned cook, writer and Schools Food Trust honcho – at the head of the table, last night’s Obesity: The socio-economic impact of our bulging waistlines debate inevitably focused on school interventions: the uphill struggle against junk food and ceaseless efforts to …

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Princess Beatrice Gets Poshest Student Digs Ever

Image by wallyg from the Londonist Flickr pool The Royals really are just like us, aren’t they? After yesterday’s news that the Queen will be broke by 2012 unless we give her more cash, we now hear that Princess Beatrice’s St James’ Palace apartments had …

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Lambeth Propose ‘Controlled Drinking Zone’

By SallyB2 Having a glass of wine with your picnic could become a thing of the past as Lambeth Council join Camden in proposing a borough-wide Controlled Drinking Zone (CDZ). ‘Controlled’ appears to be something of a misnomer though; ‘ban’; seems to be what is …

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Photo of the Day: Da`Birds

Photo by roll the dice via the Londonist Flickrpool.

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Angle-Happy Building To Grace Aldwych

The London School of Economics has released an image of their proposed new building at Aldwych. It’s the work O’Donnell & Tuomey, and their win is a particular stroke of luck for the Irish firm, as their design for the expanded Phtoographer’s Gallery on Ramilles …