Turns out the four original bombers did a practice run at the end of June. Imagine that. You arrive at a station together, go your separate ways and then keeping an eye on your watch you countdown the seconds until your backpack would have exploded. …
The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed recurring mention of The Broken Family Band in our mid week gig listings. So after taking a listen to Song Against Robots and deciding that they were really quite brilliant; DiS described them as country-flavoured rock ‘n …
It’s so easy to drift through life accepting the status quo (not the kind appearing in Coronation Street and beating up Les Battersby, silly, the other things-as-they-are-now kind) and never bothering to think about who takes care of the little details. Who picks up the …
If you’re reading this at work, then don’t worry, it’s nearly time to go home. It’s past 4pm now, so you’re not really expected to actually DO anything…come on….you can relax now, you’ll be out of there in 30 minutes. Presumably you are thinking about …
My parents are coming to visit and I can’t stand to go on the bloody wheel again! Any other suggestions? Here’s a revelation we had during a visit from our own elders last year: Parents are old, so they like to look at old stuff. …
Let’s face it, The Time Traveller’s Wife is a bit of ‘a tube book’. It’s been pretty much unavoidable since it came out and Londonist lost count of the number of times people have pleaded with us to read it. Which doesn’t mean it’s a …
Remember Freedom Bags? We had a post on them not so long ago, where we basically wrote them off as a not very good idea. In case you don’t remember, the basic idea of Freedom Bags was to produce transparent rucksacks which commuters could use …
You can tell from the title of this exhibtion that we’re on dodgy ground here can’t you? On the one hand Women Photographing Women is a perfectly respectable exhibition showcasing the work of the photographers: Renee Falcke, Vee Speers and Josephine Sacabo. Problem is, a …
My best friend’s boyfriend is such a bore. As much as my other friends and I try to be nice and engage him in conversation, he always manages to drain the life out of the evening. She claims he’s “the one,” but I know she …
It’s becoming increasingly difficult watching the disaster unfold in New Orleans without getting angry at the mentality of the authorities who were ill prepared for this and those that have now armed themselves and are stopping aid and rescue workers from doing their jobs. It’s …
When we were over in New York recently visiting the Gothamist folk everyone was Dodgeballing. And we don’t mean the running aroound throwing footballs at each other kind of dodgeball, we mean the mobile social software kind of Dodgeball that was recently bought out by …
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