Archive for July, 2010

Images clockwise from top left: DeanN takes his first ride on a hire cycle, favela on the Southbank, Vote for Summer Stew in Nom Nom Nom 2010 and follow the literary locations of Gods Behaving Badly to Trafalgar Square. The week’s most popular posts, and …

Photo of new Shoreditch Hackspace community area. The London Hackspace is a non-profit, community-run hacker space in central London. Providing an area where people who make things can come to share tools and knowledge, it’s a community that covers everything from hacking code to 3D …

The Camden Fringe starts on Monday for a month of hectic, eclectic comedy, performance and quizzery. Our festival is all mapped out and reviews will start to roll in on Tuesday morning. Can’t pick a show? The Fix comedy magazine are hosting club nights each …

An occasional series in which we highlight an important social issue that the mainstream media won’t touch: the plight of London’s increasingly neglected toy animals. We’re receiving an increasing number of reports of toy animal maltreatment in London. Three instances in the past week alone. …

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Today, introducing Sabine Thöle Originally from Germany, I have been living in London for 20 years. I still find it as …

London’s favourite jazz club is turning a rather splendid 50 this year, and they have all sorts planned by way of celebration. Londonist conducted a spontaneous poll recently, and was quite scandalised by the percentage of Londoners who not only haven’t visited the club, but …

Photo by cloudy image Man arrested for attacking a cycle hire bike. That didn’t take long A pair of unions might be brewing up a Tube strike TfL have banned a busker from beating his banjolele Gullible Americans are being conned into believing that their …

Site specific performances are two a penny in London, with some making excellent use of interesting spaces and others merely dropping actors and audiences into an unusual venue with the hope some magical synthesis will happen. Keats in Hampstead is an example of a crucially …

For anybody in Manhattan over the next few months (or indeed any Noo Yawkers interested in transport design), the Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition dedicated to London Underground posters. The small show has twenty posters from some of the leading Modernist designers, …

Image courtesy of Sir John Soane’s Museum. A closer look at one of the key exhibits at our Museum of the Month. One of the more arrestingly eccentric additions to the Soane collection – which is saying something, being nestled as it is below a …