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The theme for this weekend in the classical world is: Singers We Should Like, But Which Recent Press Coverage Has Made Us Skeptical Of. Exhibit one: Xerxes at the ENO, which was supposed to open on Wednesday until it the whole show was cancelled due …

Sir Kenneth Branagh’s recent project, as the director of Ducktastic seems to have been cursed from the beginning. And now it’s closing — its last performance is this coming Saturday. But this doesn’t mean that our favourite Shakespearian is taking a break. No, plucky Kenneth …

Londonist deeply regrets not attending the opening of H&M at Oxford Circus yesterday, when Stella McCartney’s cheap one-off collection first went on sale, just to gawk at the punters. In the words of the Vogue Daily News, the scene resembled “feeding time in the hyena …

Two men sitting in a Canary Wharf Starbucks were minding their own business, snogging each other, when some easily-amused girls (we know the type) decided it would be fun to bang on the windows of the Starbucks. The watchful Canary Wharf security guard decided to …

After a tearful Popstarz on Friday, Londonist had a very operatic weekend, with the premiere of Anthony Minghella’s new staging of Madame Butterfly at the English National Opera on Saturday, and Opera Rara‘s one-off unstaged performance of Donizetti’s Il diluvio universale on Saturday. This is …

Parterre Box began its life in 1993 as a photocopied punk-style zine distributed for free in the men’s toilets of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Now that the internet has replaced the toilet as the place where men meet each other for anonymous sex, …

You, our faithful Londonist readers, did so well with the previous installments of this little game, in which we have asked you to identify the London location of videos featuring Kylie, Coldplay, and the Chemical Brothers, that we thought we’d give you a bit more …

Of London’s London’s many tiny museums, one of the least appreciated is the Handel House Museum in Mayfair. The building, where Handel lived between 1723 and 1759, was beautifully restored four years ago, and now contains a lovely collection of historical artifacts, manuscripts, paintings and …

Londonist loves Google Maps. We love the drag-to-scroll feature, we love the way it finds businesses given just a name, we love the satellite images. All in all, decidedly superior to its competitors. So whom do we tell about this? And this? Any other bizarre …

We’re sure you’ve seen the tube posters advertising Mark Morris as “some of the best dance in the world today.” “Londonist,” we hear you asking, “this can’t actually be true, can it?” Well, actually, it sort of is, although comparisons between choreographers can be a …