Archive for October, 2010

Photo by Gary Kinsman from the Londonist Flickr pool Many investment projects are at risk as the London Development Agency is set to lose around 90% of its budget, it was announced yesterday. Last week’s CSR confirmed the LDA would be scrapped by 2012 and …

Bad taste stunt of the Autumn? Fireworks organisers at Victoria Park planning to recreate the Blitz. Cricket Australia are in a spot of bother after defacing Big Ben with an unscheduled light show. The owners of Centre Point have gone into administration. A South London …

The King’s Cross dust heap. Not content with asking for ‘Things…no bigger than your head‘, the Wellcome Collection is now moving into the ultimate in crowdsourced art. They want members of the public to send in household dust for a forthcoming exhibition about the grimy …

What’s being described as ‘an ink toner cartridge converted into a bomb’ has been discovered on an aeroplane in London. The United Parcel Service flight was en route from Yemen to Chicago, stopping off at an undisclosed London airport. Two other planes, at Philadelphia and …

From the accidentally alliterative title of this post, you could be forgiven for thinking we’d been living it up at the talpidae version of Glastonbury, but no such luck. The mole festival in question instead refers to a special menu at Mexican restaurant Mestizo where …

Seems the Camden Fringe didn’t make James Mason give up comedy nor did it discourage Stuart Laws from ploughing his perverse furrow to amuse as Unweaving Rainbows is back in NW1 on Saturday 6th November. We said we’d like to see more so we feel …

The design for the 2012 beach volleyball stadium on Horse Guard’s Parade has been released to the public. The arena, which will cater to 15,000 salivating males and their long-suffering ladyfriends, is roughly the same size as Wimbledon’s Centre Court — hopefully the Brits will …

This week, a public conference with indigenous leaders took place at SOAS. Focused around the global and environmental crisis and asking ’Is this crisis circumstantial or pointing to the end of a cycle of time for humanity’, the leaders from South and Central America shared …

Shlomo, courtesy Southbank Centre If you’re looking for a Hallowe’en treat this Sunday which doesn’t involve getting tricked out, SouthBank Centre Artist In Residence and ace beatboxer Shlomo will demonstrating his considerable percussive skills. Like some politicians, you won’t believe what comes out of this …

Drift 2008 Drift, the bi-annual contemporary art show held on the Thames, returns next week. Organised by Illuminate Productions, this year’s work includes an LED video installation opposite Tate Modern, a “wind-powered fog light”, and a man folding a giant origami boat at St. Katherine’s …