Archive for June, 2009

As Wireless fast approaches, so many people entered last week’s competition to win tickets that barclaycard have sent us some more! Hooray! If you fancy joining winner Gori Yahaya down in Hyde Park for free, simply email londonist@gmail.com with WIRELESS BAR in the subject line …

The show will go on, despite the demise of the main attraction. That’s the gist of a report over on MSNBC, which suggests we’ll see a ‘replica’ of the concerts planned for the O2 taking place in September. The cast and crew of the canceled …

Looks as if London will get specialist stroke and trauma centres. MPs Keen and Keen have got squatters in their unused second home. Lack of experienced police officers looks to have been a contributing factor in the G20 mess. An East Londoner has been imprisoned …

Image by coneee Got a spare £87,000 burning a hole in your back pocket and a yearn to save the planet? Help is at hand: the Tesla Roadster, the electric car that’s become a hot piece of roadgoing kit among America’s glitterati, will soon be …

By Tiki Chris Sceptical about the predictions for this week’s heatwave? If you’re looking for a place where the temperature is guaranteed to rise, then look no further than the All Star Lanes Chilli Cook Off this Thursday. Part of their American Independence day celebrations …

Bringing you the most Londony shows on TV and radio over the coming week. Except Wimbledon. That’d just mess up our neat little listings. And Eastenders, because you don’t seriously watch that, right? Tuesday The Conspiracy Files: 7/7 (BBC2, 21.00-22.00) Could MI5 have been behind …

Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops When we wandered in to investigate Cecil Court a couple of years ago we didn’t really stop to look in the shops (we’re busy people, things to do, people to see). But we thought it was time to …

Image / chutney bannister We’re not calling it a trend quite yet, but campaigners in Crystal Palace are following the marker set down by Walthamstowites trying to save Hitchcock’s cinema by campaiging for a local bingo hall to be transformed into a picture palace. In …

This week we have Meaghan Fitzgerald of The Top Floor Flat, a San Franciscan expat-blogger, providing a resident- but fresh view on the city. Using her blog to document her life here, keep in touch with home, and make new connections in London. If you …

Is Londonist imagining it or are there generally more up-beat bouncy 2012 tales around at the mo than crusty old downbeat ones? We reckon a subtle bend has been turned somewhere along the chalk lines: London is coming round. Anyway, news today of an excellent …