(c) OCD photo Theatrical circus group Les 7 doigts de la main (The Seven Fingers Of The Hand) have revived their much-lauded family-friendly 2006 show Traces. Don’t call it a flashback but anyone who saw Insane In The Brain at the same venue last year …
Canada is 143 tomorrow and there’s an all day party in Trafalgar Square to celebrate. “O’ Canada” will resound around the Square at 10.30am before the “dropping of the puck” by His Excellency James Wright, High Commissioner for Canada. Customise your trashed St George flags …
Image courtesy of foxtongue under a creative commons licence For Canadians in London, seeing Dan Mangan play at the Brixton Windmill is supremely surreal. Vancouver’s newest and favourite indie folk-rock hero has already won Verge XM Artist of the Year for 2009, is nominated for …
An incensed Canadian boxer and martial arts instructor flew into a rage and gave a solid pasting to a pair of soldiers after becoming angered at their faux-mosexual antics, a court has heard. Ashley Wolfe, whom the Standard twice mentions as being 5’3″, as if …
Canada turned 142 yesterday, and threw a birthday bash by Trafalgar Square’s algal fountains for Canadian ex-pats, and anyone who likes to wear red and white, eh? Images author’s own.
Harry Lime (r) would appreciate London’s seedier qualities As if we needed another reason to despair at the state of the city we call home, London has failed to make it on a list of the 50 “most liveable” cities on the planet. The Economist …
Pauline (Courtenay Webber) warms up for a split-screen musical in Patterns 3. Photo credit—Jeff Khonsary A good thing about being in the -ist network are the tips you get from your sister sites. Via Torontoist, we heard that Canadian filmmaker Jamie Travis was coming to …
If so, you’re probably better poised than we are to win a contest kicking off today. So listen up artists, armchair critics, and wannabe designers: HarperCollins, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, are sponsoring a competition to design a book cover for the forthcoming The …
He’s climbed the world’s most iconic structures from the Eiffel Tower to the Petronas Towers. But French ‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert chose a curious challenge during his trip to London yesterday: Portland House on Victoria Street. Here’s the brute. As in, here’s Portland House, not Monsieur …
Heads up people: the East London Line closes this Saturday. It will undergo a magical transformation that will take rather a long time but the line will reemerge from a 3 year chrysalis as a beautiful section of the newly tangerine London Overground network, linking …
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