Entries from Londonist tagged with 'christmastree'
February 10, 2006
Afternoon all. Last week, Sarah scored 3 out of 5, which percentage-wise, is actually our best ever result. So there you are. Perhaps some sort of prize is in order. Any suggestions? Go on, leave a comment, it will make our day. It wouldn't have to be about Sarah, or even about the Premiership, it could be about anything. We're just craving some CONTACT right now. It's Friday afternoon and another weekend of non-stop......
Continue Reading "Friday Premiership Preview"December 5, 2005
Gary Hume has made a Christmas tree for the Tate Britain. Does it have tinsel? No. Pretty lights? No. Bows and bells and little red ribbons? No. What does it have then? Um, metal blackbirds. Metal blackbirds waiting in the branches with their little metal claws… "The former Turner Prize nominee chose a traditional Nordmania spruce tree,” explains the Independent, "and decorated it with a flock of hand-painted, stencil-cut birds made from steel plate.......
Continue Reading "Have Yourself a Gloomy Little Christmas"December 24, 2004
Did you see what we did there? You see, normally it's called Friday Film News, but for today we changed the 'Friday' to 'Festive', because it's all about the films to watch over Xmas on the telly, and we managed to keep the alliteration. Anyway... One note: all these films are on terrestial television. We're not going to do that thing the papers do where we make a big fuss out of one of......
Continue Reading "Festive Film News"December 9, 2004
Londonist is a bit Christmas Tree obsessed this year. In the past few weeks we've had three tree posts. Only one of those was about the Trafalgar Square tree, but it seems we missed something: it runs on hydrogen. According to the London Asembly site "For the first time ever the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree lights are being powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, a clean form of energy." The hydrogen fuelled tree is......
Continue Reading "The Greenest Tree In London"December 3, 2004
If the Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square just isn't "interactive" enough for you, then you could always try Tate Britain's version, which is being unveiled today. It's a bit of a tradition at the Tate to get someone in to decorate the tree - Tracy Emin did it back in 2002, and Londonist particularly liked Catherine Yass's neon tree of four years ago. This year's offering is a four metre-high Norwegian spruce by sculptor Richard......
Continue Reading "The Tate Tree"