Every day until Christmas the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 2nd July 1865: One-time Methodist minister William Booth preaches to a large crowd at an open-air ‘mission’ in Whitechapel, founding the ‘East London Christian Mission’, which would later be renamed ‘The Salvation Army’. Tuesday – 3rd July 1981: …
We have a couple of favourite online empires; Gothamist of course, who keep the virtual roof over our heads, but there’s also Shiny Media who somehow manage to keep a large extended family of blogs running in a very professional manner without ever relying on …
The elderly are being upgraded. Not with Borg like extra bits (shame), but with state of the art accommodation: A new high-tech flat to improve the living conditions of older people living alone is to be unveiled. Gadgets include a “bogus caller” alarm, carbon monoxide …
This week – Bond is back (Casino Royale) and two magicians go head to head in Edwardian London, (The Prestige). Bond is here! Well… on he will be on Thursday. We watched the last Bond installment last night on ITV2. We had forgotten how gash …
As space buffs, we’ve been waiting months for some kind of out-of-this-world story with a London link…and then two come along at once. (Though the second one’s as tenuous as the Martian atmosphere.) First, our picture. Some clever space cadet called Pedro Sondas has superimposed …
Red Bull is horrible. Mix it with Vodka and you can taste all of Britain’s problems. However, their new London HQ is newsworthy because it has slides instead of stairs. We assume that there must be some stairs somewhere but some slides is better than …
A week or so ago, we were trundling down Tottenham Court Road underground station dreading the face-sweating levels of heat that were about to hit us when we heard something we thought was rather wonderful. While buskers have got much better since the Underground introduced …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Wired Waste: Designing away gadget guilt at the Dana Centre, tonight Pretty much everyone reading these …
Brian the pigeon is in the running for Londoner of the year. The capital’s smallest, most-winged blogger has taken the media by storm, appearing in TimeOut, The Guardian and even starring in his own movies. We caught up with the little fellow to find out …
Dum dum dum, dum dum dum. Dum dum dum, dum dum dum… …Doodle-oo, doodle-oo, doodle-oo. DADUM! Lalo Schifrin has nothing on us! What do you mean you didn’t recognise that as the Mission:Impossible theme? It’s not our fault that the internet is unable to translate …
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