Archive for February, 2010

Image clockwise from top left: The great Spitalfields Pancake Race, Thames foot tunnels due a scrub up, Team Londonist limbers up for Vertical Rush and the miniature Hackney street at MoL Handy links to the week’s most popular posts, and a heads up on what’s …

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. My name is Shilpa Bhatnagar, but I’m better known around photography and blogs as the Flaneurbanite. I have two homes – …

Tair Salakhov, Azerbaijans most acclaimed artist who rose to prominence during the Soviet area, celebrates his life and work in a new major exhibition at Sothebys this week. From his early works of Socialist Realism to his progression as the founder of the so-called ‘Severe …

Rumour of a new, hyperlocal poetry and spoken word festival in Walworth reached us this week. Scotching the notion that if you can’t find it on the internet it ain’t happening, we ventured to SE17 last night and had a cracking time, treated to local …

How often do you get the opportunity to get down to some serious head-nodding action in a place of worship? Unless you are a committed narcoleptic the answer is probably not often. Well, here’s your chance. For one night only New York rapper Eprhyme will …

Photo by Joe Dunckley Tunnel 228, the warren of long-abandoned British Rail service tunnels beneath Waterloo station that Punchdrunk turned into an immersive theatrical experience last year, is to return as a performance and exhibition space. Now known as the Old Vic Tunnels (there’s a …

Fashion icon Sarah Brown has paid tribute to Alexander McQueen at the beginning of London Fashion Week. The Courtauld is exhibiting a series of Michelangelo drawings depicting the young man he loved. Actor, director and Londoner Lionel Jeffries has died. Armed robbery suspect Peter Blake …

A rare tender moment in Honey/Baby PapaC Productions returns to the White Bear in Kennington with a pair of short Deborah Levy plays that pack a surprising punch, drawing on similar themes as The Housewives of the 1950s but twisted darker with men in the …

Old footage of London – there’s a lot of it about. Jumpy, black and white videos of a bygone time never cease to fascinate. But much of the freely available material online is short, on one subject and usually lacking in narrative. That’s where this …

Mark Raidpere’s video ‘Ten Men’ (2003) Scapegoat Society is a thought-provoking exhibition. Curated by Norn, in collaboration with Mark McGowan, it explores the role of the scapegoat in contemporary society and invites us to question our preconceptions and prejudices and think about what ultimately drives …