Archive for June, 2010

So the Russian spies have ‘links to London’. Who doesn’t? Murray fever returns. Tube good news (i): those Northern line closures? They’ve been cancelled. Tube good news (ii): Boris hearts underground wi-fi. The Commons has a feisty new black lady chaplain. Two men were hospitalised …

Earl’s Court street fair 2009 – catch this year’s event on Sunday Earl’s Court Festival grew from a one day street fair into a month long community arts festival, showcasing the best of local talent, local business and local venues. It starts on Friday and …

The things you say when you’re on the stump and on a roll in an election campaign and then someone throws you a curve-ball. David ‘Dave’ Cameron was at a public meeting in Tynemouth, North Tyneside in February when a member of the audience asked …

Canada is 143 tomorrow and there’s an all day party in Trafalgar Square to celebrate. “O’ Canada” will resound around the Square at 10.30am before the “dropping of the puck” by His Excellency James Wright, High Commissioner for Canada. Customise your trashed St George flags …

Josh Cohen (Dromio), Daniel Llewelyn-Williams (Antipholus) and Christopher Logan (Officer) get farcical in The Comedy of Errors at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Photo by Manuel Harlen Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors has been moved to 1940s Casablanca for the Regent Park Open Air Theatre’s latest …

In the middle of the 19th century, when women’s artistic ability was taken about as seriously as, well, their ability to vote, a group of pioneers founded a society in order to give serious women artists a much-needed chance to exhibit their work. Their first …

Whether you’re sick to the back teeth of all things bridal or praying your partner will pop the question, the Book Club Boutique is holding a wedding party with a difference this Friday from 7pm. If you like your decadence intellectual, you might have come …

Photograph courtesy of Paul Still Starting out with a presumed temporary gig as a night porter some three decades ago, Paul Still stayed on to work his way up the many flights of Mayfair’s iconic London Hilton on Park Lane to not only become its …

Queuing for science? Who’d ever have believed it possible? But that’s what happens month-in, month-out at the Science Museum’s Lates evening. Tonight’s happening will be no exception as curious punters wait in line for a chance to tour the museum’s treasures accompanied by live music, …

The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Anthony Horowitz chats to psychoanalyst Peter Fonagy about Alex Rider and his other exciting heroes down at the British Library tonight at 6.30pm (£10 / £7.50). Thursday: The London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre kicks off today …