January is known for a lot of things: dieting, being skint, the sales, resolutions. But, in our hearts at least, there’s one thing which really makes January, and that’s partwork magazines. You know the kind of thing we mean. The magazines published by people like …
According to the most recent rumours, Babyshambles frontman, ex-Libertine, and 2005′s ‘famous person most likely to die’ Pete Doherty may be going into the Celebrity Big Brother house this week. Apparently Channel 4 are keen to get a ‘rock star’ in the house and have …
Did you see what we did there? You see, normally it’s called Friday Film News, but for today we changed the ‘Friday’ to ‘Festive’, because it’s all about the films to watch over Xmas on the telly, and we managed to keep the alliteration. Anyway… …
Not content with wreaking havoc through The Premiership, Arsenal football club are also running riot over small business folk standing between them and huge profits. As part of Arsenal Football Clubs grand plan to position themselves in the UEFA uber-club sphere (the breakaway league is …
Maybe it will be, maybe it won’t, but we’re pretty sure that this is the only Doherty story this year that will involve ex-childrens TV presenter, and former inhabitant of the broom cupboard, Andi Peters. If you haven’t already guessed, the Doherty-Peters connection comes courtesy …
And in yet more ‘white Christmas’ news: Customs & Excise officers have intercepted and impounded some sacks of coconuts imported from Guyana. Far from being an attempt to prevent them being wasted in ‘sound-better-than-they-taste’ Bounty bars, the fearsome C&E boys actually discovered cocaine in the …
Londonist was interested to read Simon Hoggart’s ‘diary’ piece in this Saturday’s Guardian which gave an interesting insight into the world of London cyclists. Reacting to Turner Prize winner, Jeremy Deller’s dedication ‘to everyone who cycles in London” last week, Hoggart felt the need to …
Yesterday was day three of Capital FM’s ‘Live by the Book‘ torture regime, whereby two members of the public are placed in Perspex boxes in Covent Garden and are given daily tasks by Johnny Vaughan. And the news from yesterday is: Jess has eaten some …
The restoration of the West Front of St Paul’s Cathedral is at last complete and the scaffolding has come down. This returns to the capital one of its most delightful prospects, the view down Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s, and means that visitors will at …
So the NME have finally put there money where their mouth is and named Pete Doherty as the “Cool Icon of 2004″. As you’d expect, the paper has already been accused of glamorising drug abuse by some, but to us that seems to be missing …
Over the past few weeks staff at Ken Livingstone’s HQ (also known as the ‘glass testicle’) have noticed cracks in some of the building’s huge floor-to ceiling glass panels. The building, designed by Sir Norman Foster opened in 2002 and cost £43 million. But now …
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