My heart swims in blood / Because my many sins / Make me monstrous / In God’s holy eyes… That’s the uplifting beginning of one of the two J.S. Bach Cantatas that will be sung by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson at the Barbican for one night …
Just once we’d actually like to see Ken get in the wrestling ring with one of these Tube Lines bosses so he could literally slam them. After all, it’s the only real way to settle delicate and complicated transport policies: get in a leotard and …
Lightning flashes around Londonist Towers. A heavy-leather-gauntlet clad fist pounds the boardroom table as our Editor screams: Controversy! I want controversy you two-fingered-typing Pitman-pushing hacks! An invisible grip tightens around our throats. And down here in the Londonist Music Dungeon who are we to argue. …
What is going on with Madame Tussauds? We know they’re facing stiff competition from other, less crap more modern, tourist attractions but we’re not sure their current strategies are really what’s needed. First we had the gyrating Kylie who just happened to be on all …
You might know the Marquis of Granby pub – it’s in Westminster and is very pleasant indeed, although full of civil servants from the Department of Endless Filing and Running Around (DEFRA). In tribute to its political setting, it has been tracking the election with …
Guy Ritchie, that Jamie Oliver of the film world and current Mr. Madonna, has fallen foul of the Catholic Church. It seems that last Thursday Guy and Madge (now known as Esther) were out in London celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim. Catholics are not …
Sad news reaches us that the Union Chapel in Islington is to close. The Union Chapel Project (UCP) said that: …a recent vote by the Church membership to ban the consumption of alcohol in main auditorium, with immediate effect, was carried by a small majority. …
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You could say that the Evangelical Christian church took a bit of a knock yesterday as one of their preachers was ordered by a High Court Judge to “stop harassing Mormons”. Now, we all know what fun it can be to tease Mormons (and they …
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