Don’t forget that the London line newspaper launches today and it features column from your favourite London-based comunity blog (that’s us). The Line should be available outside central tube stations (as well as selected arts venues, coffee bars and people handing them out on the …
Londonist spent our Friday afternoon hanging out in the West End wasting away in the streets of nothing but trainer shops only to come up empty handed except for the second issue of Good For Nothing Magazine. How could we resist the cover design of …
According to the TUC tomorrow is payday for Londoners, due to the fact that we do so much unpaid overtime. “Friday is the first day that the average long hours employee would get paid if they did all their unpaid overtime at the start of …
We were browsing through some of our long-neglected bookmarks this afternoon and decided to take a look at the consistently brilliant Classic Cafes site. If you’ve never visited before (and you should have because it’s on our list of links right here on this page) …
It’s always nice to find out about new types of crime, especially ones that happen in the back room of East End boozers, so it was with interest that Londonist noted the recent crackdown on an illegal Finch breeding ring in Bethnal Green. Police and …
They’ll be talking about this one for years to come. Yesterday a water main burst on Upper Street turning the streets in the area into what the Standard described as “a mini-Venice”. According to reports people were trapped inside restaurants, bars and shops as “gallons” …
London is officially the “most diverse city ever” according to today’s Guardian. The article, part of the paper’s special What is Britain report, profiles the capital’s non-indigenous communities (e.g. Poles in Hammersmith, West Africans in Southwark, Congolese in Tottenham, Koreans in New Malden, Portugese in …
Just a reminder that Londonist is still looking for writers. We are looking to improve and expand the site throughout 2005 and for that we’re probably going to need a bit of help. Apart from the general newsy stuff we also need people to write …
Wow that’s a contrived headline. Sorry about that. But, hopefully, it should make some sort of sense once you’ve read this story. Basically what’s happened is that Westminster Council have instructed pubs in Soho to remove their rainbow ‘Freedom flags’ on planning grounds, citing the …
And in yet more ‘white Christmas’ news: Customs & Excise officers have intercepted and impounded some sacks of coconuts imported from Guyana. Far from being an attempt to prevent them being wasted in ‘sound-better-than-they-taste’ Bounty bars, the fearsome C&E boys actually discovered cocaine in the …
Remember the world’s priciest truffle? If not, here’s a quick recap: it’s a fungus, it cost £28,000, it weighed 1.88lbs and was bought by Zafferano, an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge. And the latest news is…it’s dead. According to The Times the fungus may have been …
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