Rock School
Rumour has it that this documentary was already in production when the big studios got a whiff of it and immediately set up Jack Black to make School of Rock – it’s kind of lucky that it happened that way around because if the real …
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XFM List-tastic Bank Holiday
It’s a funny old world we live in, tearing down the information M25 waiting for the next speeding petrol tanker to flip itself over the central reservation right on to our unprotected heads. Terrified of losing control we’ve found a system that placates our every …
Your Weekend In Summer Sport
As London gets back into her groove, it has become time to get back to what we do best. For other Londonist writers, that would involve a weekend overdosing on zombie flicks, or maybe a trip to the opera, perhaps a brisk walk around some …
Video Vigilante
With the violent death of 24-year-old bank manager, Saad Mohiuddin, still fresh in everyone’s minds, the Independent have been out on patrol with the man who caught the whole thing on video camera. Ian Wilder is 58-years-old accountant who has been out on the streets …
The Ultimate Syndrome
Straight people don’t know, what you’re about… They put you down and shut you out After running into Kelly Osbourne at the She Makes War gig on Sunday night Londonist was wondering what the latest news was with her dear old dad. It turns out …
Nick Hornby To Guest Edit Time Out
Author, journalist, and all-round nice bloke, Nick Hornby is to guest edit next week’s issue of Time Out magazine. The author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and most recently
Bethnal Green Really Kicking Off Now
We all knew that Bethnal Green was going to be one of the real ‘battle grounds’ of this year’s election, but we meant it in the usual election cliche kind of way, not in the ‘actual threat of real violence’ kind of way it’s turned …
End Of the Line For The Clapham Junction Code
Another bit of London lore has become a thing of the past. Staff at Clapham Junction station, the BBC reports, are to stop honouring the secret shortcut password. The password has long been a piece of useful local knowledge for Claphamites heading home after dark. …
High Culture Makes Good Deterrent
This is either the greatest or the stupidest story so far this year: Metronet are going to start piping in classical music in to Tube stations in an effort to “deter yobs”. Their claim is that trials of the ‘system’ (which uses “CD technology” apparently) …
Doherty: Cool Or Not?
So the NME have finally put there money where their mouth is and named Pete Doherty as the “Cool Icon of 2004″. As you’d expect, the paper has already been accused of glamorising drug abuse by some, but to us that seems to be missing …
