Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …
We don’t know whether crime is on the up or down but two new initiatives to engage London youth in the debate hit the news today. In Wood Green, kids suggested that a text 999 hotline to the police might encourage people to report crime …
We haven’t mentioned the Roundhouse lately and didn’t expect to for the Christmas season, but we’re pleasantly surprised to announce a new show in the completely circular space in Camden that opens tonight and runs for the festive period. LOFT is a comedy, circus, dance, …
Ahoy hoy, book grocery shoppers! The metaphorical book grocer aisles are stocked high with choice meats and sweet confections this December, so whatever your tastes, fill up your shopping cart and gorge yourself on this week’s selection of literary events – they’ll give you much …
Jewish Free School (JFS) in North London, Britain’s top Jewish state school and indeed one of Britain’s largest schools overall, was yesterday charged with breaking anti-discrimination laws and ordered to remove a section of its admissions criteria that gives preference to ethnically Jewish children over …
Huge clouds of smoke can be seen over Bow, east London, visible from as far as Queen’s Park. A disused warehouse on Waterden Road has caught fire and according to the news emerging right now, there are 15 fire engines and between 40 and 75 …
Our much feted and stylish monarch opened the all-new and yet all-old St. Pancras terminal today after a 10 year revamp (of the station that is, not the Queen). The station is (as of next week) to be home to Eurostar after a 5.8 billion …
Ear of the Year? It’s not a typo, nor is it an attempt to fetishise one of the body’s less aesthetically appealing organs through association with their derriere-concerned namesake (though we’d applaud any such effort). The capital’s already got plenty of sex if that’s your …
Hot on the heels of basketball and ice hockey, the third of America’s big four sports has begun its landing on our shores. The advance guard for Sunday’s NFL encounter between the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants consists of just one man. Albeit …
We clearly don’t think as ambitiously as Tim Slater, organiser of the world’s largest underwater dinner party who got 500 people in black tie and evening dress to eat a 3 course meal, underwater, in Acton on Saturday. After all, we thought growing beards for …
Fancy a gig with a difference? Friday night’s alright for fighting zombies, as zombiecore band Send More Paramedics are playing London tonight, and on the menu is braaaaaains, braaaaains and more braaaains. Somewhere between ‘horrorcore’ punk band the Misfits (as lead singer
