If you were wandering around Bayswater last night and wondering why you were surrounded by several thousand Americans, it’s not because we started granting political asylum to those seeking refuge from the Bush regime (a bit late for that, really). No, it’s because last night, …
Living thousands of miles away from the White House doesn’t mean you can’t have a say in who’s going to be living there come 2009. According to a report in The Times, London-based Americans have raised 40% of a $1 million overseas war chest for …
For only Ken Livingstone has the right blend of schmaltz and gravitas to deliver yesterday’s ground-breaking apology for London’s involvement in the slave trade. Generally speaking, Londonist is a little cynical when it comes to apologists. The national apology is the grandest theatrical gesture of …
It’s summer! Shouldn’t you be outside enjoying the sunshine? That is, assuming we actually get any. If you don’t fancy making the most of the weather, here are a few choices for a night in. On TV, Londonist likes: Tuesday, 21 August Secret Life of …
Stand Aside, oh diminuitive purpley chap formerly known as Prince. Make Way for the taller and altogether more substantial man formerly known as the 42nd President of the USA. As previewed here last month, Bill Clinton came to the O2 this lunchtime. To afford the …
While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton’s San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan’s cab must keep its (in)famous …
The O2 is really putting on some astonishing large-scale music events. The venue is quite exceptional – even punters sat behind Barbara Streisand (so they could only see the back of her head) left her concert singing its praises. The battle with Wembley is clearly …
This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it’s important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. …
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world created, like all the best things, by amateur enthusiasts. Farting in the general direction of professional mappers, these collaborative cartographers prowl the streets collecting GPS data and building up their wiki-based map. We caught up with charter-in-chief Steve …
With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news …
If Islam had confessionals like the Catholic faith, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s imam would be a busy man. “I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.” “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew Daniel Pearl.” “I was …
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