Archive for October, 2010

‘How well do you know London?’ enquires the cover. Pretty well, we’d like to think. But after working our way through the 400 questions in this portable treasure trove, we realise we’re still paddling on the foreshore while a great Thames of trivia lays undiscovered …

Poems about our capital Kirsten Irving was born in Louth in 1983. She edits submissions for Fuselit magazine and co-runs experimental poetry anthology press Sidekick Books with Jon Stone. As well as City State, her work has featured in Stop Sharpening Your Knives, Dwang, Rising, …

Photo by Simon Crubellier via the Londonist Flickrpool.

For a bit of Hallowe’en fun, five football fanatics interrogated the ghosts of Highbury through a Ouija board. The highlights can be heard on Resonance FM tonight, but first Chris Roberts sets the spooky soccer scene. It’s a popular complaint amongst contemporary football fans that …

The National Theatre is renaming its Cottesloe Theatre the Dorfman Theatre after Travelex chairman Lloyd Dorfman gave £10m towards the NT’s refurbishment. With arts funding cut and government plans to encourage US-style philanthropy to fund culture, we should probably expect more of this kind of …

What are you up to this weekend? Here’s a round up of recommendations and a smattering of suggestions to help you make the most of your 48 hours leisure time. Ganesh and Nelson from Diwali on the Square 2008 by Daniel_C_C All weekend: Our Halloween …

Image courtesy of ZSL Londoners can finally get a peek at the city’s latest cuddly attraction: the two-day-old baby gorilla born at the London Zoo on Tuesday – the first in 20 years – has been revealed to the camera. The baby was born to …

Photo / Pit Van Meeffe TfL today announced a wi-fi trial at Charing Cross station from November 1st. The service will cover the ticket hall, Bakerloo and Northern line platforms (though not the trains themselves). The service will use TfL’s existing wireless network for staff, …

Newham Council are accused of being ‘champagne socialists’. On how Boy George lost the plot at a charity gig in Mayfair. Boris messes up in his choice of metaphor to describe London’s depopulation should benefits be cut. Psst! Wanna buy some pictures? Original Krays, they …

(c) Olivier Samson Arcand If you threw a hundred instruments, five musicians and the soundtracks by Ennio Morricone to Sergio Leone’s cinema classics like A Fistful Of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More into a blender and hit the big red button, you might …