As there was no Friday Film News last week we had to wait until today to mention that the 19th LLGFF kicks off this week. Beginning tomorrow with a showing of Prey For Rock and Roll at the Odeon West End, the festival last for …
It pains us to bring you news of an attack on a venerable London institution like the Standard but we couldn’t let this one go: an article on Media Guardian headlined Livingstone Attacks ‘Scumbag’ Standard. Sheriff Ken apparently laid into a Standard journalist at a …
This year’s London’s Pride celebrations are going to preceded by a series of adverts on the tube and they want members of the public (as opposed to actors pretending to be gay?) to appear on the posters. Reflecting the more political theme of recent Pride …
Wow that’s a contrived headline. Sorry about that. But, hopefully, it should make some sort of sense once you’ve read this story. Basically what’s happened is that Westminster Council have instructed pubs in Soho to remove their rainbow ‘Freedom flags’ on planning grounds, citing the …
Londonist has somewhat of a love/hate thing going on with the theatre, love the idea of going, hate actually being there (3 encores? really? it was good, but if you want unconditional love and adulation buy a puppy), but still we keep going in the …
They come but once a year Flicking through Friday’s Metro I was stopped by the image you see on the right of Little Britain’s David Walliams and Matt Lucas or rather Emily “I’m a Lady” Howard and Daffyd – The Only Gay in the Village …
Londonist has to admit to never having been speed dating, but increasingly it seems like we’re the only ones. The press has been full of stories all year about young women are outnumbering blokes in the capital right now (638,000 women to just 586,000 men …
Londonist can sometimes see why we journalists get a bad name. A quick surf of even today’s newspapers will see that Brian Drysdale, “48”, driver of the car involved in the rail crash in Berkshire last Saturday, drove onto the railway line, removed his clothes, …
It’s one of those stories that, if the Daily Mail ever get wind of, we’ll never hear the end of it. A Greenwich-based theatre company are currently staging Shakespeare classics in their own “unique” way. That’s “unique” as in gay. The Melmoth Theatre Company’s adaptation …
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