Archive for July, 2009

Hacker Gary McKinnon has lost his appeal against extradition. Signs of the economic times: there’s been an increase in the sale of home-office furniture. Procul Harum’s organist has won a court battle for a share of the Whiter Shade of Pale royalties. A 2,500 year …

While we’re talking about views from that Peckham car park, here’s the situation inside. Various artists have set up camp in the upper storeys of the structure as part of the Bold Tendencies III show. As if negotiating the dimly lit concrete concourses were not …

Londonist drinks last night were of a somewhat unusual persuasion. We assembled in Frank’s Bar on the roof of a Peckham multistorey car park to watch (a) the sun go down and (b) intimidatingly cool art students swaggering around the rooftop sculpture park as though …

A proposal to build a modern café in the former entranceway to Blackfriars Road station, across the road from Southwark tube, has won planning permission. Glas Architects knocked up this design, which encases a three-metre wide section underneath the archway in glulam frame and etched …

By Mr November via the Londonist Flickrpool First Ken gave us the Hovis London Freewheel, but their dough didn’t rise to the levels of Sky (*groan*), so under Boris it was rebranded the Sky Sports Freewheel. This year it gets another facelift and will be …

London Day from urbanTick on Vimeo. Our friend Andy Hudson-Smith at UCL points us towards this impressive bit of timelapse from UrbanTick. Much of it is shot from the top of St Paul’s. We see swarms of tourists and stockbrokers scurrying across Paternoster Square, the …

Image / titlap When Gooners implore Arsene Wenger to strengthen his squad with the windfall cash from the sale of Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Touré, this probably isn’t what they mean: reports suggest Patrick Vieira might be heading back to Arsenal. The former Highbury legend, …

Captions in the comments please. Photo by illuminant voyager via the Londonist Flickrpool. Check out the clever and amusing captions from last week’s PoTD: Caption Required #19

Fed up with the disruption caused by utility companies digging up London’s streets? TfL are considering fining companies who don’t complete work on time. Boris Johnson kicked off a war on holes as part of his Way To Go! initiative earlier this year by insisting …

It seems that the US embassy is once again in trouble with a London Mayor. Nothing to do with the Congestion Charge this time. Well, not much. No, the problem is mostly with the American government’s plans to build itself a brand new embassy complex …