Archive for September, 2010

Interior of the Roundhouse, one of the buildings English Heritage’s campaign has helped save. Photo / MykReeve Deadline passes for 2012 Olympic stadium bids. New Met recruits to be drawn from pool of special constables. The British Museum will reduce opening hours from January, to …

At this year’s Frieze Art Fair, artist Jeffrey Vallance plans to employ five mediums to channel Leonardo da Vinci, Jackson Pollock, Frida Kahlo, Marcel Duchamp and Vincent van Gogh in the fair’s auditorium. An art expert, and the audience, will be invited to pose questions …

From midday tomorrow until midnight on Sunday, the Snooty Fox in Highbury will be hosting their first real ale festival, with a pronounced rock & roll theme. First things first – the beer. Alongside some great tried-and-tested ales, such as Thornbridge Jaipur IPA and north-London-brewed …

Photo by Simon-K from the Londonist Flickr pool The BNP has expelled Richard Barnbrook, its only representative on the London Assembly, from the party after he attempted to force a leadership challenge on Nick Griffin. Barnbrook resigned the whip in mid August in what was …

© Natalie Dybisz – And the Mirror Cracked Now into its tenth year, the annual festival of all things lens-based takes over the usual haunts of trenderised east London over the next two months. There are over 200 events and exhibitions to browse through, and …

Try browsing a brilliant book shop such as this one, captured by Marcus Yau via the Londonist Flickrpool The evenings are drawing in but don’t moulder at home, there’s plenty of frugal fun to be found. Tonight: Already covered by our Book Grocer but worth …

Have Warner Bros. struck some kind of weird product placement deal with Norman Foster? Posters for the new Harry Potter movie prominently feature structures designed by the architect, namely the Willis Building and City Hall. The previous flick was promoted by a Gherkin-focussed image, while …

The original guitar hero, Jimi Hendrix, died 40 years ago this month and the capital has seen several events to mark this sad anniversary and pay homage to his unique talents. Jimi had a special affinity with the UK, particularly London, and this latest event …

Photo by blopsmen via the Londonist Flickrpool.

The next project at the Old Vic Tunnels, a warren of re-purposed British Rail storage facilities beneath Waterloo station, will turn the space into a vision of hell. Specifically, hell as envisaged by one Dante Alighieri. The Italian poet’s Inferno, an allegorical trawl through the …