Archive for May, 2010

Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London. This week, some unlikely deckchairs. Captured by cakehole.

If you’re at a loose end for this evening (remember, it’s NOT a school night) head along to the Museum of London for a gratis showing of classic Docklands caper The Long Good Friday. The film was recently voted ‘best London film ever‘ by Londonist …

Dispatching a lobster photography by Chris Osburn Lobster twice in one week? Ah! Such is life for a roving Londonista. The first time round was a Big Easy munch out in Chelsea. For our second lobster feast, we were at a more centraal location, Belgo …

There’s no escaping the past in Limehouse. From the converted warehouses, to the dead pubs and the seamen’s missions, the neighbourhood still bows beneath the weight of its history. Fringe favourites Kandinsky have chosen the perfect venue, the crumbling Town Hall, to summon up the …

Photography by Ben Norum Supper clubs and pop-up restaurants come in all guises, but none could be more extravagant, or indeed more English, than Mrs Paisley’s Lashings. For just two weeks, Jo Wood (ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood) and Arthur Potts-Dawson (of Acorn …

Muso alert: London Underground are auditioning buskers once again. No Streets of London though, promise? Parents are told to be extra-vigilant after two attempted abductions in South London. Much of East London is to become a Green Enterprise District. Which is probably a good thing. …

production photo by Alistair Muir There is an array of all-American talent squished onto the Menier Chocolate Factory stage that is both formidable and incomprehensible. From Mandy Patinkin, arguably the finest Sondheim interpreter of his generation, to Broadway back-catalogistas like Judy Kaye and John McMartin, …

Image by M@ from the Londonist Flickr pool There’s confusion – oh, when is there not? – over the future of Crossrail. Reports yesterday suggested that up to £5bn could be taken out of the budget (massive national deficit, coalition government, etc; we’ll be the …

It’s the end of the week, the Bank Holiday looms, three days of spending beckons… and you haven’t a penny to spare. Or have you? According to the BBC, you or someone you know has an Oyster card with unused money on it, loaded up …

“I’m his father, and he’s my son, and there’s nothing bigger than that,” says dad Joe Keller at one point during Arthur Miller’s classic All My Sons. But as this tightest of plays moves on, you begin to realise there are many things bigger than …