Miscellaneous

We’ve interviewed all manner of Londoners in our time – musicians, authors, a strip poker champion… We bring (almost) every interview to a close with the burning inquiry, “What advice would you give to Ken Livingstone?” At the end of 2006, it seems like as …

It’s the time of year that sends compulsive list makers in to a frenzy, and this girl is no exception. It’s the Notes From The City Official 2006 End Of Year Things-That-Laura-Liked Summary – catchy! It’s as much a list of things I really think …

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you’re reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that’s just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we …

Week by week, we’ve been building up quite a collection of weird and distorted London imagery as part of our Touch Up London series. You know, the weekly slot where readers photoshop images of London, hopefully to a more impressive standard than the Tate penis …

Whether you’re a tourist looking for alternative sights to see, or a proper Londoner who enjoys poking around the more obscure part of town, you can’t beat London’s historic and bounteous collection of alleyways, snickels and passageways. Over the past few months, Londonist has been …

For those of you who missed it there now follows a bit of blatant advertising, a fair amount of flesh and a lot of bemused Christmas shoppers:

We think Sinatra sang it best, New York New York so good they named it twice / New York New York buy your crap there half price. In case you needed a reminder that the dollar is getting the living shit beat out of it …

You know how it is, as soon as the boss is away the staff get to do all the real work. In this case that means worrying about equal rights for robots: Robots might one day be smart enough to demand emancipation from their human …

Ticket from Toronto: £299. Getting your song chosen for a Mastercard ad: Priceless. Last Thursday Findlay Brown, whose song Come Home is currently playing to millions of TV viewers daily in the Christmas Mastercard advert, joined a folksy line-up of four artists in the space …

Londonist: So they had a virgin birth at London Zoo. Cronenburger: “Earlier in the year” it says. Did they make a big deal about it back then? Londonist: Don’t think so. But it’s all Christmassy now that Flora is due to give birth in December. …