Archive for March, 2010

Today’s legal proceedings have seen a Heathrow robber jailed, a G20 PC cleared and Ali Dizaie dismissed. London courts have been asked to pick other sentences owing to a shortfall in funding for community service supervisors Playground name-calling: tube managers say their staff are old …

Images have emerged for a planned 120 metre tower from artist a la mode Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond. What will become Britain’s tallest piece of public art will begin construction on the Olympic site almost immediately, for completion next year. The structure, dubbed …

Ed Ackell by Judith Fox A heartbreaking exhibition of beautiful photographs is in town until Saturday. Photographer, Judith Fox, shares extraordinarily intimate images of her husband, Ed Ackell, documenting “loving and living with Alzheimer’s”. Ed was diagnosed just 3 years after he and Judith married. …

Ceilidh dancing is not just for Burns night. Oh no. You can Strip the Willow, do the Dashing White Sargeant, dance the Gay Gordons or turn on the Sausage Machine wherever you can find a hall, decent band, caller and (importantly) a fully stocked bar. …

By shimmeringmercury The Art Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance figures sees the Saatchi Gallery trump the national big boys for special exhibition popularity. ‘The Revolution Continues’ was the 28th most visited art exhibition in the world in 2009, whilst that and ‘Unveiled: New Art …

The week ahead – or as much as isn’t taken up by Easter – in literary London Wednesday: Brixton Market’s first ever resident poet Dorothea Smartt heads a line-up including Daljit Nagra, Yemisi Blake and Nick Field at Apples and Snakes’s takeover of the Soho …

Photo / aka John Spence Twenty years ago today, the simmering resentment toward the Government’s plan to impose a hugely unpopular poll tax across England and Wales erupted into violent protests. A large group of protesters marched from Kennington Park to Trafalgar Square, and the …

Photo / Simon-Crubellier It’s speedy, it’s in Soho, it’ll help you to find a mate, but it doesn’t involve knocking on the window of Cafe Nero on Old Compton Street. Tonight, one rental company is offering bed hopping of a different variety for Londoners looking …

Twitter is abuzz with news that a fire and flood in Paddington telephone exchange has knocked out land lines in large areas of North-West London. Lord’s cricket ground, near St John’s Wood, are among those affected and report that service could be disrupted for up …

Transport for London’s much anticipated cycle hire scheme will launch in four months time, on 30 July, it was announced today. Sort of. We’ve yet to track down a press release, or official statement, and TfL have not responded to enquiries. But, nevertheless, several credible …