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Boules, by 5imon in the Londonist Flickr pool.

Where To Play Sport In London: Part B

Badminton, baseball, basketball, bikram, boules, bowls, boxing.

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Watching the 2011 Super Bowl in London

Where to watch the 2011 Super Bowl this Sunday in London.

Week Around the -Ists

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses …

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Londonist Live Review: Mute Math and Parlotones @ Monto Water Rats

Remember those heady days back in the late 90’s when Feeder were good? ‘Just a Day’, ‘Buck Rogers’, stuff like that? Well, if you miss those brilliant pop-rock crossover tracks then look no further than Mute Math, a New Orleans fourpiece who manage to combine …

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We’re not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. …

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Tour De France Prologue: Five Publicity Caravan Moments

Given that a member of Transport for London’s Special Projects Team had assured us in his interview only a couple of weeks ago that the celebrated Tour De France publicity caravan would be commencing its parade around the Prologue circuit at 1:30 pm last Saturday …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week’s “Segway Mom” and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It’s not West Side Story, but about as close as they’ll get. They’re also still waiting on some …

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Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart …

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Sporting Weekend: Guinness Premiership Final

You’re barely considered a proper sport these days unless you augment your league competition with some sort of knockout finale. The Americans seem to have been first with the Superbowl and the baseball world series amongst others, but over here we have largely failed to …