You might have read in the press today about a young man named Warrick Brownlow who has spent the past two years fighting an epic battle against ‘the man’ in the name of peace, love…and puppets. Basically Warrick has been campaigning to get the Jim …
Londonist has always considered Black Cabs a quintessential part of the London experience, right down to the door locks clicking on and off everyone time you stop at the lights; but in April they’re going to get a little touch of Bangkok. This doesn’t mean …
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) …
We’re always a bit wary of anything which uses the word “intervention” to describe itself. And if the ‘intervention’ in question is intervening around East London, that only serves to make us even more suspicious. The latest of these is Walk an “intervention into public …
The supermarkets might go mad for pumpkins rather than fireworks; the TV programmes might be flooded with American imports mentioning Halloween rather than bonfire night; but in this dark quarter of South-East London, where electricity is still viewed with suspicion, if not seen as outright …
Tonight sees the opening of ErotICA, the ICA’s attempt to bring some of “the finest pornographic minds together with artists and writers to put some spice into British erotica.” At 6.45 the team behind the new ‘sex zine’ Slit will be discussing how they went …
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