Music-Hall Chairs – Play With Us!
Roll up, roll up! The games are afoot! And you are invited to join the fun on Wednesday 16 March in Music-Hall Chairs, a night of games organised by Londonist, A Door In A Wall and Wilton’s Music Hall.
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Review: London Art Fair 2011
Last night, the preview evening of the 23rd annual London Art Fair opened the doors of the Islington Business Design Centre to several hundred well-heeled art lovers who were able to enjoy a vast selection of modern and contemporary, mostly British art.
Pride London 2010
On Saturday, loud music, dancing, singing, bright colours, bare flesh and whistles coming from over 130 walking groups and floats filled the streets of the West End and the eyes and ears of onlookers for a good four hours. An estimated one million people gathered …
Preview: Bike And Kite Festival, Blackheath
As previously mentioned in our London on the Cheap round-up but worth a second mention in order to have floating kitty kites on the site… Do you like BIKES? Do you like KITES? Do you think it would be totally awesome to enjoy both, at …
Clerkenwell Design Week Starts Tomorrow
Clerkenwell is the little spot on the design / creative Venn diagram of London where showrooms, studios, seminars, workshops, designers, architects, magazine and book publishers all overlap. For the next three days, all of this will be celebrated and explored in Clerkenwell Design Week with …
Happy Hanukkah, London!
Hanukkah – or Chanukah as the london.gov.uk website prefers – is the eight day Jewish festival that started last Friday, marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after the Maccabee uprising a long, long time ago. A 30 foot tall Menorah has been …
Ticket Alert: Chord In Kingsway Tram Subway
One of Subterranean London’s transport favourites, the Kingsway Tram Subway, whose gated entrance is so alluringly prominent above ground yet whose secrets have been firmly squirrelled away since 1952, is being transformed by a giant mechanical installation and opened to the public for one month …
Nude Nutter Does Runner From Plinth
Two pigeons in Trafalgar Square watch the antics of a One And Other participant. Bill: He’s got a tent. Ben: What the hell is that? Bill: [Bobbing up and down with excitement] It’s a blow-up doll! It is! It is a blow-up doll! Christ almighty, …
Literary Events @ Foyles
Buckaroo Kid We just caught a whiff of the autumn line up of bookish events at Foyles and thought you deserved a heads up. Ready? There’s smartypants Francis Wheen, Booker winner John Banville, Bond penner Sebastian Faulks, Audrey Niffenegger (you know, the one responsible for …
Dominoes 2009: Watch Them Fall
Dominoes 2009: a Station House Opera project for CREATE09 and we were part of it. This section was in Mile End Park and was the start of the 15km route; the dominoes eventually crossed the road, went into Matt’s Gallery and out of a window, …
State Of London Debate 2009
“All you Olympic sceptics will be Olympic maniacs by 2013.” Booo. “No we won’t!” Cheers. “Oh, I am confident you will.” Booo. Cheers. Such was the lively, almost pantomime atmosphere at the 9th State of London debate, which took place at the QEII conference centre …
