Notes From The City
The big day has arrived! I couldn’t be happier that never again in this country will I have to play a gig in a smoky room, but it is going to be interesting to see what side effects the new smoking ban has. Scaremongers are …
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For Love Of Sugar
We considered saying it was ‘a sweet idea’ with reckless use of sugar-related terms like ‘raw’ and ‘unrefined’ – but then realised how inappropriate these terms are for new art work that is none of the above. Powerful, considered and carefully constructed are more apt …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 25th June 1953: John Christie is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, whose body was found with several others hidden beneath the floorboards of his house in Notting Hill, West London. His conviction casts serious …
Anyone For Free Tennis?
That racquet has lain dormant in your cupboard for 50 weeks now, but you know at the back of your mind that, before this week is out, the temptation to imitate the grace of Sharapova or the swashbuckling of Federer on your local patch of …
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here’s what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes’ exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest …
What’s for Lunch? Waterside Café at the Barbican Centre
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Waterside Café Barbican Centre EC2Y 8DS Map Average Lunch Price: £8 Rating: 8 out of 10 There’s no middle ground when it comes to the Barbican. Londoners either love it …
Free Range 2007: 21st June – 25th June
This week, get yourself down to Free Range to see some of the best exhibitions from UK’s finest students. Seamless Who? Loughborough University School of Art and Design (Textiles) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Boiler House University of Westminster Photography Degree Show 2007 Who? …
Lavish London
It’s that time of year again. No, not summer (have you looked outside today? Blech), but the annual We Live In A Damned Expensive City survey that makes us all feel like flinging the two pennies we have to rub together out the window of …
Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 18th June 1972: A British European Airways plane bound for Brussels crashes moments after taking off from Heathrow airport, killing all 118 passengers. An inquiry later concludes that the pilot had made a ‘speed error’ and stalled the …
Sonic Sheds For Architecture Week
Architecture Week starts tomorrow and we don’t know where to start. All things architectural get a week to shine across the country for this week and London, which has the shiniest of shiny buildings has a particularly packed schedule. The website has the full programme …
