Everyone loves a good map, right? We certainly do, which is why we’ve mapped everything from free wifi spots to V2 rocket impact sites, via secret underground tunnels. But for all that Google Maps has done for amateur cartography, you can’t beat the real thing. …
A Belgian Film Festival starts tonight at the beautiful Phoenix in East Finchley. As they say, “Most English people probably wouldn’t be able to name even three Belgian films, but we can assure you that this is mostly due to our nation’s tenuous grasp on …
How the coin should look Aged 6 to 12? Enjoy designing national currencies? Then do we have the perfect competition for you. The Royal Mint seeks imaginative designs for commemorative Olympic coins and wants the country’s youngsters to lead the way. (Presumably, the logic runs: …
Untold London has been doing sterling work for a number of years unearthing and sharing stories from this city’s diverse communities. In October they launched a writing competition to lure LGBT stories out of the closet to expand on the history of London from a …
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
Just a quick reminder of our Medical London competition, which closes on Friday. To win a copy of the collection of books and maps by Richard Barnett known as Medical London, simply tell us a piece of London medical trivia. The more unusual, gory or …
Have yourself a morbid little Christmas. We’ve got a free copy of book–map ensemble Medical London to give away. The aesculapian tome, published by Strange Attractor and the Wellcome Trust, will be making a house call to one lucky winner in time for Christmas. To …
A blog, humbly devoted to all things London, Londonist is – could you have guessed? Meet the fib – no, not the kind you told at uni when submitting yet another late essay – but the poetic kind: a 6-line verse reminiscent, in its constriction …
Earlier this year, we saw English National Ballet stripped back to bare essentials in a celebration of ballet and the history of the company. This winter they’re back at the beautiful Coliseum with a sumptuous trio of classic ballets: Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and Manon. …
Roll up, roll up – the competition to win a pair of tickets to the Royal Academy GSK Contemporary exhibition, open late on Monday night, and witness the cabaret of Bourgeois and Maurice closes at 5pm today. What a wicked way to spend the first …
If you’ve been round the back of the venerable Royal Academy lately, you might have noticed the neon flags flying from Burlington House. Abutting the eminently respectable Byzantium mega exhibition up front is GSK Contemporary, an eclectic 3 month season in 2 parts, exploring contemporary …
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