Archive for August, 2010

The cast of Clybourne Park at the Royal Court Theatre. Photo by Alastair Muir Here’s our pick of what’s hot and new in the coming seven days. Plus, there’s a few things closing too, so make sure you don’t miss out… Be There First: London …

Food at Borough Market by Brandon Norris The pathologist who inspected Ian Tomlinson after his death at the G20 protest is found guilty of misconduct over previous examinations. The story behind that murdered MI6 worker might be too sensitive for the courts. Prospective Labour leader …

Sir Terry Pratchett Following on from last year’s successful event, Chiswick Book Festival is back with a weekend-long lineup with something for everyone. It kicks off on Friday 17 September with Sir Terry Pratchett introducing his new book I Shall Wear Midnight. On Saturday, the …

Not many events are targeted at ‘folklorists, undertakers, storytellers, clergy, singers, mediums, anthropologists, vampires and historians’. But then the Folklore Society is a broad church. Their annual conference, this time themed around the cultural aspects of death, takes place this coming weekend in the appropriately …

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The artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ekow Eshun, used a soft-ball interview in Saturday’s Guardian to publicly announce his resignation. Eshun has presided over a rocky five years at the ICA: though audience numbers were up, a financial crisis created by bad …

Don’t forget to make a wish in Leon’s Giant Drawer of Wishes competition! You’ve got until Tuesday the 31st of August. To celebrate the launch of its second cookbook, simply titled Naturally Fast Food, London’s fast but healthy restaurant chain – Leon – has teamed …

The Victoria & Albert museum will mount an exhibition this autumn dedicated to Charles Holden, the architect responsible for building some of the best-loved Undergrounds stations in the 1920s and 30s. Along with building many of the celebrated modernist designs on the Piccadilly line, such …

More than one million people convened on the streets around west London for the Notting Hill carnival over the weekend. As ever, milling about the throng, were regular contributors to Londonist’s Flickr pool. A selection of their excellent photographs is presented above. Future sociologists may …

After Monopoly maker Hasbro announced last week that the location of the “Go” square was beside the London Eye — a claim duly rubbished by Diamond Geezer — Ordnance Survey, who compiled the data for Hasbro, have clarified their methodology. In a blog post, OS …