America

Gotta Getaway

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc today announced the release of The Getaway: Black Monday, the follow up to the visually arresting but ultimately shallow gaming experience that was The Getaway, created by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s Team Soho (whose members include Captain Porn Seller, Over-Priced …

London: Retirement Home To The Stars

So yesterday we reported on the fact that Liam (or was it Noel?) Gallagher was sick of London (too overcrowded, too many queues) and was going to “up sticks and move out”. And now today we have yet another story of a ‘major Hollywood star’ …

Wild Bunch At The NFT

The British Film Institute has decided to kick off the new year with a festival entitled The Wild Bunch celebrating America circa 1965 onwards and the cinema that era produced. “Out of this time of social change, came a decade and a half of challenging, …

London Just Keeps On Getting Friendlier

Londonist always wonders what people mean when they come back from holiday saying “..oh and the people were ever so friendly”. What did they do? Buy you a pint, give you advice on your love life and offer to let you sleep on their sofa …

McEwan’s Saturday

At a talk in Oxford yesterday, Ian McEwan told his audience that his new novel Saturday is “set on a single day in February 2003, when London was seized by its biggest-ever peace demonstration. More than a million people took to the streets to protest …

Swingers On Regent’s Park

Did you know that softball is an Olympic Sport? Londonist had no idea. We must have missed the coverage of the nail biting US v Australia final in Athens earlier this year (America won 5-1 apparently). And if it’s an Olympic sport you can bet …