Archive for January, 2010

Here’s a little foretaste of the Museum of London’s modern London galleries, due to reopen in May this year. The continuous wide image (here shown split into two for the sake of fitting into our slimline column) shows the City and environs in the near …

Amidst the joy of getting PAYG on national rail (albeit with a few hiccups along the way), those of us going back to work may not have spotted a nasty little extra: a new evening rush hour peak fare has been added. Rail passengers are …

We found traces of Lambeth’s most famous son lurking around the Garden Museum last year but tomorrow, a full exhibition dedicated to this ‘Great Londoner’ opens at The London Film Museum in his home borough. The Chaplin Exhibition follows Charles from the Black Prince Road …

Every January, the Robin Howard Theatre at The Place hosts Resolution! Whilst you can sum up the festival as a platform for the newest contemporary dance it just doesn’t do justice to the scale of the thing nor the range of work that will be …

By ricoeurian via the Londonist Flickrpool As if airport security wasn’t already a chore, Gordon Brown has announced that full body scanners will be introduced at a number of UK airports in the near future. We should effectively prepare to suffer the ignominy of public …

Skimming over the ‘best of 2009′ film lists during the New Year break, you may have noticed numerous references to A Prophet (pictured), Jacques Audiard’s terse prison drama that pinched the inaugural Best Film award at the London Film Festival back in October. The tawdry …

The idea of a fifteen foot-high reproduction of the Tory leader’s rubicund face staring at you is nearly as terrifying as a similarly enlarged Gordon Brown attempting to smile in your general direction. Yet this is what the Conservatives think will win the election. Team …

By kujunu 2009 saw the launch of Slow Down London, a movement to encourage us all to hang back, chill out, breathe deeply and take a better, longer look at this mad city we inhabit. The theme inspired our first photography competition and you contributed …

All the best Londony shows on TV and radio for the coming week. Monday In Our Time (Radio 4, 09.00-09.45) If you thought the celebrations for last year’s Darwin anniversary were a little overblown for just one man, prepare for a veritable X-men of science. …

The idea of spoken word nights can be a bit, well, pretentious and dreary, but if you’re up for turning that misconception on its head, may we suggest starting off with wordPLAY? Friendly and informal, they’ve got a mix of poetry, performance and music on …