We were going to save this one for Random Graffiti of the Week, but it’s just too delicious to sit on. Walking around Shoreditch over the weekend, we kept spying these odd little stickers plastered with a regularity beaten only by those sodding onlyjoe labels. …
If a long crawl around the many art fairs open this weekend sounds like too much work, then you might be interested in the various theatrical things going on that don’t require a great deal more effort from you than to turn up, take your …
Watch Like A Pen here: Broadband Dial-Up It’s not often we’d tell you to do ANYTHING to get a ticket to a gig, but Swedish dance nutcases The Knife are in town on Saturday and it’s sold out. If you aren’t someone who’s holding a …
This week – Alan Bennett’s adaption of his smash-hit play (History Boys), Costner plays a lifeguard, (The Guardian) and Outkast make a jazz/hip-hop movie (Idlewild). First up, The History Boys, the film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s ridiculously successful play which won a sackful of awards. …
Just a little bit of juvenile bus stop humour for you. It is Friday, after all. Photo taken by M@ in the Old Street area.
In which 2000 people turned up at Liverpool Street Station and danced like they just didn’t care. More footage here. Thanks to Geoff for the links.
The weekend’s Crawl falls into two areas: Art Fairs or Theatre. You can do one or the other… or put on some comfortable shoes and your most inscrutable “yes, I am urbane and sophisticated” face and pack in as much of both as you can. …
Winning, nay just being nominated, for the Mercury Music Prize can do a lot for you. While some of us might still be scratching our heads wondering where exactly Miss Dynamite have got to, those artists who were little known at the time of their …
Site specific art and performances are all the rage at the moment. July last year saw London shaken up by the joyful prospect of irrevocable change because of the Olympics, then was rudely shaken again by the terrible prospect of irrevocable change because of homegrown …
As a Girl Guide in Cyprus in the early 1990s I thought I had it good. Singing, dancing, doing crafts, collecting clothes from the neighbourhood for recycling…it was a lot of fun. The annual Guide camp was the pinnacle of the year – I loved …
So Tate Modern gets turned into a minimalist, brushed steel, grown-ups adventure playground and meanwhile, in Battersea, another London power station has a makeover… Like the bottle of olive oil in an Italy-shaped novelty glass bottle that has been in the kitchen cupboard since that …
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