To mark the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth, two halves of one of his manuscripts have finally been re-united after spending the last 170 years apart. The British museum, which has been in possession of the lower half since 1953, has finally purchased …
What’s the UK’s favourite modern building? EASY! It’s the Gherkin. Everybody knows that. And poll after poll has confirmed it. But no, wait, what’s this? A new survey shows that the ‘Eden Project in Cornwall is the UK’s best-loved modern building’? But that’s not London? …
Photograph based on actual events. These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Einstein vs. Newton debate at the Royal Society Bit of a …
The London Assembly, gawd bless ‘em, has come up with an idea that has already been thought of and is already in practice in a stunning attempt to bring fresh ideas to the stale-as-yesterday’s beer debate on the Licensing Act. As of Thursday this week, …
TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 – about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse …
If you hadn’t realised already, Londonist likes its badges. And luckily there seems to have been a bit of a badge resurgence in the capital recently, with Wear it With Pride catering for all our badge purchasing needs, and the British Museum’s brilliant little badge …
We’re hearing rumours here at Londonist that someone has, this afternoon, attempted to kill themselves in the British Museum. From what we’re hearing the person jumped from the South Portico, up by the Reading Room in the Great Court. The mystery jumper is by all …
Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on …
Will the Routemaster debacle never die? After all the fuss over the decomissioning of the buses and then the arguments over whether bendy buses really did have quicker boarding times or not, now the Routmaster’s new role is being criticised for being “seriously defective”. The …
Funny place, Holborn: it’s not the City; it’s not the West End; it refuses to be pinned down to any point of the compass. It is obscure and recondite to most people, a lesser-known and unappealing neighbour to Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell. There are diddly-squat famous …
Transport for London has just put its £15 million “media planning and buying account” up for grabs, which gives us a good excuse to look at lots of old, fantastic images that TfL have used in the past. Like these for instance: If you fancy …
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