One of us is off in a different time zone again and it looks like he fed our cute little Mogwai-server way after midnight London time and then spilled water on the offspring resulting in a green scaly technical headache. We should be back up …
Seth Lakeman has been building up a real buzz around him since his Mercury Prize nomination in 2005 and along with him on this leg of his tour was Australian singer-songwriter Carus Thompson to revel in that buzz. No traditional warm-up act, Carus, who usually …
During her daily early-morning dog walking expedition through Hyde Park (no, not the Kevin Spacey variety), a Londonist contributor encountered a man wearing a navy blue outfit and cap, with natty red scarf, standing next to a pile of golf balls, practicing his golf swing …
While the London Film Festival was having its gala opening in Leicester Square, a decidedly less glitzy and less James McAvoy-related film gathering was taking place down at BAFTA headquarters over on Piccadilly. Just Watch Me: Award Winning Canadian Short Films brought together some classic …
On the 8 October this year two members of the Londonist team will be taking part in the Run London event in Hyde Park. As the theme of this year’s race is North v South it’s fitting that our competitors come from opposing sides of …
Whilst driving through London’s banlieu on Sunday, an item on Radio Five Live caught Londonist’s attention. In between news from the test match and the awful opinions of that rank Scotsman Nicky Campbell, a cheerful broadcaster spoke of a three week contest taking place upon …
As memorial events continue across London this morning and ahead of the silence at noon we’ve taken a break from the regular posting to reflect on what happened on July 7 and to remember in our own way those who were killed or injured a …
All the weeks highlights from our international sister sites. Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid’s Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television …
Much as the incarcerated writers of the Londonist Music Dungeon enjoy relaying our recommendations on music, we can never shake off the mantra murmured to us by our inner voices: ‘music writers are failed musicians’. So it’s with great pleasure that we start a column …
National politics does spin, but that’s apparently a bit sophisticated for Lambeth – we seem to just do mud-slinging. The opening post-election salvo comes in the form of a leak to the South London Press regarding an alleged “pay scandal plot” by the newly elected …
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