Your mother might well have said ‘that you never should/Play with the gypsies in the wood’, and she would probably advise you to give a wide berth to the begging variety in most urban high streets today as well. But this is just so much …
Londonist doesn’t need much excuse for a party, and firmly believes that we don’t have nearly enough festivals in the UK. So we are delighted to be able to wish all of our Muslim readers a very Happy Eid. The new moon has been sighted …
Judging from the deluge that hit parts of the capital Monday morning, a rain dance is the last thing soaked Londoners need this week. Lucky, then, that we’re actually talking about the Raindance Film Festival, which opens on Tuesday night. Now in its fifteenth year, …
If you have ever longed to exorcise yourself of those dreary afternoons in chilly church halls and torturous tinned food stockpiling that seemed to be the sole remit of Harvest Festivals at primary schools two decades ago, then your chance to experience a very different …
The rather tortured word-play of “thera-pea” is worth it, trust us. We’ve got an extraordinary event for your diaries and all will become clear… Bobby Baker is an artist who has been bringing the mundane and the ordinary such as housework and healthcare into the …
If Londonist were really rich we’d be out every night doing LOADS of fun stuff. We’d be going to see all of the cool things at London Design Festival. We’d be drinking beer out of plastic cups and dancing at the Get Cape, Wear Cape, …
We talk about festivals all the time here on Londonist: food festivals, theatre festivals, religious festivals, dance festivals… we can’t help it. London is a festive place. The latest festival that we bring to you today is the London Design Festival, starting this Saturday and …
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to …
Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …
We’re skint again! We’ve spent all of our money on festivals only to find that we’ve spent hours standing in the rain listening to the bands we didn’t really want to see but our best mate wanted to because they fancy the singer. This means …
As bands jump across the Atlantic to play this weekend’s V Festival and next weekend’s Reading and Leeds festivals London is treated to a wealth of bands that rarely play these shores. Here’s a selection of the best. Monday night sees the amazing Rilo Kiley …
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