It’s time for the Thames Festival again. Previous festivals have opened with a high-wire walk across the width of the Thames and closed with a “river of fire” fireworks show. This year’s two days of street theatre, fireworks, art installations, food, drink, music and circus …
Londonist attended the London Film Festival press launch this morning – we’re suckers for a free breakfast. This year is the festivals 50th birthday and by all accounts all the stops have been pulled out to make this years line up a little bit special. …
Celebs. In the theatre. Are quite bad enough. (Val Kilmer in The Postman Always Rings Twice immediately springs to mind.) But. But. Jade Goody. As in, Jade Goody. She isn’t even a celeb. She is to make an appearance in The Vegemite Tales. We wonder …
Childrens’ literature is big business at the moment and currently, everyone has a reading age of about 12. But while Harry Potter, Alex Ryder, the Series of Unfortunate Events and His Dark Materials are seeing us through long train journeys and creating amusing scenarios in …
Stephen Berkoff, the renowned Cockney thesp perhaps best known for his plays East (1975), West (1983), and, naturally, his appearance in the ‘Science’ episode of Chris Morris’s satirical spoof documentary series Brass Eye (“She was hit by a ton of invisible lead soup … that …
The Tiger Eye Firecracker Showcase kicks off tomorrow night with an opening night preview of Kekexili (Mountain Patrol). There’s free Tiger beer before hand and a Q&A session afterwards. Thanks to the kind folks at Firecracker Magazine and Tiger Beer, Londonist readers have the chance …
The Telegraph is reporting today that Sunday theatre-going may be a possibility within the next 12 months. You may remember earlier this year when the National theatre announced plans to start staging performances on Sundays and that the National’s artistic director Nicholas Hytner was reported …
Now this is going to be, erm, huge. Blogger Slinkachu has been leaving his tiny, tiny creations all over London ‘to fend for themselves’. You’ll need a keen eye to spot them, though. They’re just a few millimetres tall. See many more on his blog, …
Fitzrovia wasn’t always so. It was once plain North Soho, though it was far from plain. The poet and chronic Sohoitis victim J. Meary Tambimuttu Christened the area ‘Fitzrovia’ after the Fitzroy tavern on Charlotte Street, where he frequently became pissed and, in his intoxicated …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It’s a busy old week, so let’s get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question “Are graphic novels a complex and creative new …
Those of you who dip into, or even contribute to, our Flickr group may have noticed the presence of comedian Dave Gorman amongst the regular contributors. We’ve even used a couple of his images in the Extra, Extra from time to time (including this one …
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