You want entertainment in London, you say? And you want it for free? Well, good sir or madam, you’ve come to the right place. Anyone who’s lived in this fair city for a while knows that free entertainment is actually all around us. From our …
Giant crack in the Tate Modern. Half of those living near Heathrow would quite fancy a new runway. A pretty grim account of the Menezes shooting emerges in court. Newts get evicted from Olympic site. Croydon branches of Greggs are employing bouncers, claims local news …
Who wants to be in the office today? Who wants to be told to take alternative routes because there aren’t enough drivers on the Circle Line? Who wants to choose the outcomes of something you have a direct investment in? If you do, head down …
You might have heard – the Spice Girls are reforming for a few concerts. It wasn’t very publicised, so you could be excused for missing it. Tickets for the London concert on 15 December at the O2 Centre went on sale on Monday and sold …
There. We’ve come out and said it. When did you last go to the zoo? Our zoo, I mean. You know, the one in Regents Park. The one you got dragged to thrice as a child. We can bet that most of you haven’t been …
Go. Go. Go. Never have we wanted to shout about a theatre production company more than Punch Drunk. Ever since we saw them perform Faust in an old warehouse, we were obsessed. On Friday night, we went to see their new offering, Masque of the …
Revamp planned for Camden Town. And, by jiminy, does it need it. Zero Royals at the Royal Film Gala, as Charles and Camilla pull out. They’re too busy modelling for waxworks. Please, please, please can we have several hundred million pounds, pleads mayor. It’s for …
Fresh Next Week: Born in 1949 in what is now Croatia, Dubravka Ugrešić made a controversial figure with her trenchant opposition to nationalism, both Serbian and Croatian. Her latest book Nobody’s Home tours Europe and America, finding that as the former Eastern bloc has thrown …
Autumn is tussling with the tail end of summer. It’s nearly time to start closing the curtains early, sticking the central heating on timer and making soups and stews. Bed socks on! Here’s your London related home based media entertainment for the week. On TV, …
If you’ve been wanting to join the cycle revolution but are put off by all that aggressive, unpredictable and dirty traffic out there then maybe this weekend’s Hovis London Freewheel, which will trundle through nine miles of traffic-free town on Sunday, will help you get …
The bell-ringing flasher of Colliers Wood. The bossman’s friend at Stamford Bridge. The knife-sporting Wizard of Sutton. The bleeding canker of Hampstead Heath. Amy Winehouse. Image courtesy of nevermorepro via the Londonist flickr group.
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