Peter Pan is back. Captain Hook couldn’t kill him, Robin Williams had a damn good try while Jeremy Sumpter’s attempt was mostly ignored, but now children’s’ author Geraldine McCaughrean has breathed some fresh life into Michael Jackson’s inspiration for messing around in kids’ bedrooms. The …
It’s the 30th year for the Laurence Olivier Awards, the biggest and arguably the most coveted item of recognition and achievement for London theatre. Presented this year by Richard “I don’t believe it!” Wilson, the gala night on 26th February will mean the gathering of …
It’s probably a sign of the times that big companies are imposing ever stricter rules on their employees. These days, no aspect of a worker’s conduct is left to chance or common-sense. So it is hardly surprising that some financial institutions in London are now …
This week: Jarhead, Breakfast on Pluto, and Cry Wolf. So last week we had Brokeback Mountain, a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal that everyone loved. And this week we have Jarhead a film starring Jake Gyllenhaal that…most people quite like. The film gets its best rating …
January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It’s appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and …
We bet you didn’t know that this year’s Brit Awards are the 26th, unless of course you remembered that last year’s were the 25th. Taking place at a venue that won’t look at all like the soulless aircraft hanger that is Earl’s Court when it’s …
This week: Brokeback Mountain, Match Point and Just Friends. Plus film news and gossip. Well after the festive break and a whole host of pre-Christmas cinematic dirge isn’t it nice to start the new year off with a release that everyone just loves? That film …
A 52-year-old, successful corporate lawyer killed herself at Jurys Hotel, South Kensington yesterday by leaping from a 100ft high window ledge. Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt is to make a film “inspired in part by July’s London bombings” called, unsurprisingly, Suicide Bomber. Kate Moss has been …
The BBC informs us this afternoon that “the only known manuscript of a poem by Lord Byron has been found within the archives of University College London.” During ‘routine cataloguing’ librarian Susan Stead opened a copy of The Pleasures of Memory by Samuel Rogers only …
Lambis Nikolau, the Greek IOC member who is said to have pressed the wrong button and handed London the 2012 Olympics, has said that the allegations are “unfounded”. As of this morning the New Year tube strike is still on, but the RMT and London …
That’s the question on the lips of all Royal watchers today as Rolf Harris unveiled his latest work of art – an “impressionistic” representation of an eighty year old woman* with illusions of grandeur. The good old Queen herself. And he’s rather proud of it …
Get the Londonist Book Of London Pub Crawls for less than the price of a pint. Available now for Kindle.
