With this column, we try to bring you a new blog every week. We scour the cybervestry for new species of weblog, like a Victorian naturalist in the forests of Borneo. This week, we’ve stumbled upon a cracking little site hiding in the undergrowth. London …
With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing– what’s going on in the World of the -ist’s? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama’s unpaid parking tickets, their Governor’s latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had …
Yes, yet another Londonist preview of a fantastically quirky arts event; we love it. Half opera, half dance performance, part underwater extravaganza and mostly Greek tragedy, the innovative staging of England’s oldest opera by one of the stars of German dance theatre should be stunning …
We loved a lot of things about Children of Men (Michael Caine mostly), but also appreciated the little touches that were just futuristic enough to let us know that this wasn’t the here and now. Yet it was certainly a London firmly grounded in today’s …
Solution to gangs idea # 456: A group of mothers is using text messages to fight truancy and help keep youngsters away from gang culture. Parents with children at Addington High School in Croydon, south London, took action after a spate of stabbings. If a …
We love BBC America’s anglophenia because it’s always interesting to see what the other side of the pond thinks about the happenings in our own little goldfish bowl. This post, however, tackled a more serious subject than the usual pop culture geography when anglophenia popped …
Book signings are not one of our favourite things. Queue for half an hour – bored – considering what you’ll say to the author; panic, say something platitudinous, receive a banal reply, gratefully accept a misspelled dedication in an illegible hand; go home and gloat …
So how many people did a double take when handed The London Paper on Friday? The headline read GIANT MONSTERS ON TUBE, but it was, alas, just an advert for the latest episode of Primeval. Anyone try and fool a gullible/drunk friend with tales of …
This week, we’ve noticed that London’s media seems to be diversifying into sundry formats. And not only that – the different organs are all bitching about one another. Time for us to wade in… The Times launched a snazzy local web presence last week called …
It’s Chinese New Year this weekend and we will be saying goodbye to the Year of the Dog and welcoming the Year of the Pig. Pigs are considered lucky animals because all they seem to do is sleep, eat, hang around for a bit then …
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