It’s time to announce our third Londonist guided walk. When: October 12. Meet at 7pm outside Atlantis Books, Museum Street. What: This walk around Bloomsbury will mention Mr Crowley, screaming queens – of the Egyptian variety – haunted clocks, incompetent executioners and much else as …
Boris Johnson today won the Conservative Party open primary to determine who will be the Conservative Candidate for London Mayor. Quelle surprise! The poll was open to Londoners of all political colours, sadly the poll wasn’t highjacked by thousands of Warwick Lightfoot’s magical woodland friends …
After following up a superb night with The Field by bringing Gui Boratto a few months later, Allez-Allez have fastly become one of our favourite club promoters. If we’re not dancing to the best in minimal techno at one of their Plastic People events, then …
Months of research and workshops run by writer Justin Young and director Suzanne Gorman have created Moonwalking In Chinatown, an extraordinary walkabout performance which leads audiences through Chinatown in the dusk behind bobbing paper lanterns and a variety of actors and stewards. Four overlapping stories …
Camden Town may be changing with the relentless advance of corporate chain stores (no, not those kind of chains) and glass and steel canalside developments but the Council is upholding the area’s reputation for cyberpunk techno-progressiveness. It’s launching webcasts and podcasts to be more accessible …
Or, stuff you think about London that’s true but is actually rubbish. 2. Dick Whittington and his cat. Everyone enjoys a good story. Especially one with a happy ending, interesting characters and familiar friends. Well this Londonista was a bit shocked and annoyed to discover …
It was pointed out to us, when we posted last week about rugby pubs, that somewhere else had done it better by team. Well yes, they had, but they’d got a bit lazy after the home teams and our closest European friends and bunched the …
Last month when we carried the news about London having entered a “golden age for the London restaurant-goer,” we didn’t realize said restaurant-goer would require access to the Bank of England’s gold reserves just to enjoy this apparent new age in dining out. But it …
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Laxeiro 93 Columbia Road E2 7RG Reservations: 0207 729 1147 12pm-3pm, 7-11pm (Tuesday – Saturday) 9am – 3pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: £5 for most tapas Rating: 9.5 out …
When Lisa Connell hit the local press last month we were impressed by her spirited determination and charitable entrepreneurship in the face of personal adversity. We caught up with her this weekend to find out how the fundraising’s going, whether there’s been any naughty business …
In a week of transport woe, we’ve all felt a bit shortchanged. The exact scale of shortchanging due to the Tube strike has been explored already and yet more controversial financial consequences of protesting have been unveiled. It apparently cost £7million to police the Heathrow …
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