Almost everyone who owns a mobile phone has either accidentally or very deliberately thrown their contraption across great distances – and if you haven’t managed to do something destructive to your telecommunications gadget, then you’re not using it properly. The urge to hurl is so …
An anonymous reader sent us this early concept image for Foster’s phallic tower. Finally, the erotic gherkin lives up to its nickname. Keep sending those lovely photoshopped London images to londonist – at- gmail – dot – com. And, please, no more gherkins for a …
The Nice Up by Rodney P When the mood takes us we’ll shove up a music video from the YouTube reservoir that does its best to reflect London either in the visuals or the lyrics. If you stumble across anything of interest that we should …
The Londonist Culture Crawl started in Canary Wharf for the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival – and we knew it was going to be colourful the second we emerged from the cool grey steel-toned enclosure of Canary Wharf station and were confronted with the gigantic …
Invisible by Second When the mood takes us we’ll shove up a music video from the YouTube reservoir that does its best to reflect London either in the visuals or the lyrics. If you stumble across anything of interest that we should be sharing then …
LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts’ Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at “porn” take on Peter Pan’s Wendy / Alan Moore’s erotic Lost Girls / …
Protest: Where do you stand on the great lads mags debate? This is a perfect week to take sides – or at least engage in some spirited argument, because back-bench MP Claire Curtis-Thomas is kicking off a debate in Parliament about whether lads mags and …
Just a quick announcement to let you know the people who prevailed in the competitions last week. Lucky Soul competition The recipient of a signed 7″ vinyl copy of the new Lucky Soul single, Lips Are Unhappy, is Pauline Lang. London Calling Live competition Debs …
The new Danny Boyle / Alex Garland movie currently filming in London seems to be coming along nicely from the video snippets up on the website. Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship …
Londonist brings you triple-decker theatre news for a Friday afternoon, of the good, good Lord! and good grief… varieties. First of all, of the “good” variety, Eddie Izzard is to play Sally Bowles in a production of fishnet-tastic Cabaret next summer. The much loved cross-dressing …
This week, we have a film about Irish Republicanism (The Wind That Shakes The Barley), a nonsensical thriller with Demi Moore (Half Light) and a movie about true-life legend of patriot fighter-hero, Huo Yuanjia (Fearless). First up, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, a film …
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