George Takei works on his high five The cults are coming back to town. No, not the crazy kind that make you sell your house or have group poison parties. We mean the movie cult kind. Showmasters presents another London Collectormania Convention, a mish mash …
Not-so-long-ago poo-pooed as onanistic-escapism for Black Canary completists and cast as pre-video-game cultural ne’er-do-well, comics have grown up and are kicking-ass. Quietly and colourfully, the graphic novel is marching through an enduring golden age that’s showing off a depth to its canon that says as …
Those pesky OAPs just keep getting into trouble. This time it’s drug smuggling Artists take stand against Shoreditch high rises Tube film upsets train drivers. Well it doesn’t take much Bozza waves treehugging card While TfL send Congestion Charge payer 3000 receipts “Urban Chameleon” image …
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 …
This dance theatre performance based on Australian David Hicks’ experiences as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay packs a lot of visual punches but doesn’t speak up enough. Director Nigel Jamieson and choreographer Garry Stewart have created a powerful and breath-taking production that depicts the treatment …
No, it’s not some ‘attack of the giant cathedral eating spiders’ B-movie filmset but the return of Maman, the giant spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, which originally stalked the Turbine Hall when Tate Modern opened in 2000. Bourgeois herself is now 95 and, given that …
We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We’re not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual …
Bank holidays are great, aren’t they? London is emptying as we write with the motored up masses departing for gridlock on motorways around the country and we’re all looking forward to getting to the pub as soon as feasibly possible. Possibly sooner. With the warmest …
The Times is running this as an exclusive: Scores of worried parents are buying body armour for their children in a desperate attempt to keep them safe as street violence escalates. A firm that supplies stab- and bullet-proof vests to government agencies around the world …
If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients – although …
This week – Borat visits the USA (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan) and British rom-com set on Hampstead Heath, (Scenes of a Sexual Nature). When we saw the posters for this on the tube, with five star reviews …
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