Streatham is known for a lot of things…we just can’t think any of them right now. But in the late Seventies it was known best as the home of Cynthia Payne and her ‘celebrity brothel’. Cynthia (who, very helpfully, managed to incorpoate the word ‘sin’into …
There’s a lot of miserable London stories around today: stuff like the Circle Line being voted the worst tube line, or the Met not meeting their repsonse time targets, or parts of Hyde Park closing due to an assault. So we thought we’d bring you …
With clockwork-like predictability the
I’m a Celebrity Stand In We’re not really sure what could be worse than being one of the “celebrities” in I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (which starts on Sunday ITV1), other than maybe being a stand in for I’m a Celebrity Get …
Is there a collective noun for deities? You know, like a murder of crows or a smack of jellyfish? Maybe not, after all there is only one God right (as opposed to many gods)? Well, if you get down to the ICA over the next …
The public both hate and love it when an apparently well-paid ‘celebrity’ tries to get something on the cheap. Look at what happened to Richard Madeley when he was accused of trying to shoplift a bottle of bubbly from Tescos. That was ten years ago …
Birth has been courting controversy since it was shown in Cannes earlier this year. First of all the film was booed because of the scenes which feature Nicole Kidman and a ten-year-old boy in the bath. And then Lauren Bacall made some innocuous comment about …
Tonight, Londonist is taking the trip up to Highgate in north London to attend one of the best pub quizzes in the city. The Bigger Boat Film Quiz takes place at a pub on Archway road every month, and it’s quickly becoming a bit of …
They promised us a “major celebrity” for the switching on of the Regent Street Christmas lights this year. In the past they’ve given us such ‘celebrities’ as Daniel Bedingfield and Russel Watson, so you could forgive us for being a tad sceptical. But, in one …
Back on the Young British Artists ‘tip’, tonight sees the opening of Sam Taylor-Wood’s first solo show in London since 2002. Called simply New Work the exhibition incorporates two self-explanatory photographic projects: Crying Men and Self Portrait Suspended. For the Crying Men series Taylor-Wood visited …
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