We’ve all run into American tourists who try and cram as much culture and sightseeing into the shortest possible time frame. Big Ben in the morning, the Eiffel Tower in the afternoon and The Leaning Tower of Pisa before bed. These days of course seventeen …
Normally the refreshment of choice for the more sedate members of society, Herbal Teas have been capturing new markets amongst London’s prison population. Apparently Wandsworth Prison has been dispensing cups of soothing herbal goodness for a few years now and other prisons such as Downview …
Have you ever noticed how cramped the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern feels? Well, all that’s about to change. Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota has announced plans to drastically expand the complex, increasing the existing 34,000 square metres of gallery space 50%. The new …
London is officially the “most diverse city ever” according to today’s Guardian. The article, part of the paper’s special What is Britain report, profiles the capital’s non-indigenous communities (e.g. Poles in Hammersmith, West Africans in Southwark, Congolese in Tottenham, Koreans in New Malden, Portugese in …
Tonight sees the opening night of the Halloween short film festival at the ICA. Billed as the “edgiest film festival in the UK”, the Halloween festival has been around in some form or another since 1994, and in that time it has garnered itself a …
This is either the greatest or the stupidest story so far this year: Metronet are going to start piping in classical music in to Tube stations in an effort to “deter yobs”. Their claim is that trials of the ‘system’ (which uses “CD technology” apparently) …
Disastrous news for those of us you who use blank taxi receipts to give yourselves the occasional bonus, as The Evening Standard reports that Mayor Ken wants to halt blank taxi receipts. Instead, Kuddly Ken wants to install machines in every cab which will print …
Lost property is a strangely English obsession. It’s a subject which seems to tie in with those icons of British culture: the briefcase, the bowler hat and the black umbrella. Plus, lost property statistics seem to fascinate us as a nation. Weird bits of trivia …
Is there a collective noun for deities? You know, like a murder of crows or a smack of jellyfish? Maybe not, after all there is only one God right (as opposed to many gods)? Well, if you get down to the ICA over the next …
The Londonist is yet to purchase Greg Dyke’s “revealing memoir”: Greg Dyke: inside story, but it’s one of those books we may put on our Christmas list. As everyone knows Dyke was booted out of his director general’s chair at the BBC this year after …
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