Remember the Oubliette Collective? They created an Arthouse in the shell of a building in Waterloo back in May. Since then, they’ve moved onto Mayfair, where they’re occupying two six-storey former embassies. They found time to create the Fifth Plinth as a riposte/tribute to Gormley’s …
By Richard Parmiter via the Londonist Flickrpool London 2012 Open Weekend is upon us and, as expected, is ram full of things to do between Friday and Sunday. Celebrating the 3 years to go milestone, events range from the athletic to the historic, artistic to …
This weekend’s theme is London on Film, but there’s plenty of other goodies on offer throughout the week. Highlight: As the Elephant and Castle begins another major transformation, the BFI looks back to a former incarnation. The E&C was so devastated by Hitler’s bombs and …
One week in, and the Story of London Festival has taken quite a bashing. Diamond Geezer was less than impressed with the web site, while Dave Hill was doubly caught out by dodgy information. On the other hand, Peter Watts at Time Out acknowledges a …
Well that’s crept up on us. The Story of London Festival was first announced just three months ago. It begins on Monday. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been fed a steady stream – a Walbrook, you might say – of press releases from the …
“Sorry about the mess” Everyone’s favourite ‘hidden gem that’s actually really well known’ holds an open night this evening. Sir John Soane’s Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is as heavy on historical bric-a-brac as it is on apostrophes. The confusion of rooms and stair cases …
Al Robertson explores the capital’s live poetry scene and offers tips on where to get started. These days, we tend to think of a poem as being words written down, rather than spoken or sung. That’s a real shame, because it stops poetry from moving …
Celebrate me, or I shall sit on you. By the beard of Cranmer, Henry VIII is a popular fellow. The 500th anniversary of his coronation has prompted a glut of events and exhibitions that make the recent Darwin bicentenary look like a timid court jester …
Unhappy easter. covent garden, April 2007, by i,max in the Londonist Flickr pool. Eggs, chocolate, bunnies, and a tortured carpenter coming back from the dead. What’s not to like about Easter? Well, apart from those slap-worthy ‘eggstraviganza’-type puns that normally bedeck any article about the …
Have lunch al fresco, not al desko…. Lunch Hour by Simon-K. One of the winners of Slow Exposure. Now the initial excitement of Slow Exposure is past, it’s time to get gradually interested in Slow Down London’s programme of events of which our marvellous exhibition …
Bad luck courtesy of Ronald Hackston via the Londonist Flickrpool. In times of turmoil and uncertainty, superstition holds free reign. But in London, one group has repeatedly risen up amid the finger-crossers and black-cat-dodgers to laugh in the face of Lady Luck. They are the …
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