Archive for May, 2010

Welcome to our ongoing mission to explore what London has to offer the discerning lover of excellent beer – from pubs and retailers that take pride in the quality of their hoppy offerings, to local breweries and beer events. In this instalment we are guided …

The first ever Stoke Newington Literary Festival happens next weekend and it looks like a belter. They’ve secured appearances from AC Grayling, Toby Litt, Danny Kelly, Stewart Lee, Darcus Howe, Edwyn Collins, John Hegley, Jeremy Hardy, Iain Sinclair, Tony Benn, Shappi Korsandi and Phill Jupitus …

The East London Line opened its south-east section on 23rd May, inducting a whole new swathe of London into the world of roundels. Given that, for a lot of people, south-east London might as well be populated by dragons, we asked some locals to give …

Admire the Lord Mayor’s Coach at Museum of London’s new Modern Galleries, opening on Friday till 9pm Tonight: Happy Endings: Dinosaurs, Pandas and Penguins is a talk by the star of ITV’s Prehistoric Park, Nigel Marven, with stories from the front-line of documentary film making. …

Photo by matranson via the Londonist Flickrpool.

Teams all over London are gearing up for this year’s London Cycle Challenge, in which groups (catagorised by size) compete to cycle as many miles as possible during the month of June. Prizes, which include Evans Cycles vouchers and leisure days, are awarded to the …

London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. There are colossal, legendary and living lions. Lions from one of the seven wonders of the world, from the cradle of liberty and there’s a lion …

With all the attention heaped upon the 250 plastic pachyderms of the current Elephant Parade, we thought we’d give some space to their predecessors. The first recorded elephant in town came over with the Romans around 2000 years ago. Since then, we’ve seen vicious elephants, …

If you’re interested / worried about the bees disappearing (and you should be), you could bob down to Battersea Park Children’s Zoo on Saturday. The Hive Honey Shop will there between 11am-4pm to explain, in a child-friendly way (i.e., accompanied by a six foot cuddly …

A protest by cabbies angry about illegal touting jammed large parts of London earlier. Eurostar may never come to Stratford after all. The Standard’s gone all mobile. If you want a better quality of life than London, seems you should head to Vienna or Bern …