We love to be dazzled by youth. Be it Zadie Smith’s precocious debut novel, the Arctic Monkeys storming straight to No.1 or Lewis Hamilton tearing up the track in his first F1 season, we are consistently enraptured and delighted by the ability of the young …
News of a film installation to be unveiled at Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town stations shortly alerted us to the fact that TfL’s jolly and diverse Platform for Art programme had undergone a rebrand and will be relaunching as Art on the Underground at the …
24. Haunted Roads For Halloween! Despite London’s congested roads and the daily chorus of thousands of beeping horns, ghosts of the cities roads are in fact sporadic. Look through any catalogue of phantom hitchhikers or ghostly vehicles (for example http://www.roadghosts.com/) and you’ll notice a distinct …
If you hadn’t noticed, we’ve been having a love affair with this city since we can remember. Hackney cabs, bagels at four in the morning, grumpy commuters, all night clubbing. It seems nothing is missing. Except maybe one thing: the countryside. It sounds strange, but …
You’re barely considered a proper sport these days unless you augment your league competition with some sort of knockout finale. The Americans seem to have been first with the Superbowl and the baseball world series amongst others, but over here we have largely failed to …
So what do you think was the most ‘popular’ Londonist post of 2005? The July 7 bombings? The whole NME controversy? That 90% of cabbies think blogging is the same thing as dogging? Nope. The clear winner of ‘The Most Popular Londonist Post of 2005′ …
And, by God, did he get around. Stalking Paolozzi was a piece of cake in comparison. The map above is our stab at showing all Dickens’ London addresses. But sources conflict, and there’s bound to be a few missing. During his childhood, Dickens hopped from …
Gloucester Road Tube. Who ever uses it? Hands up. OK, maybe a few students from Imperial and the occasional lost tourist. Well, surprisingly, 13 million souls pour through this station each year. A sizeable and distracted chunk of that number will be folks like Londonist, …
Apparently, something called ‘The Premiership’ is kicking off this weekend. Bothered? Does Londonist look bothered, mate? Yes that’s right, we’re really not bothered at all. As far as we’re concerned, the Premiership doggers are going to have to wait until the Londonist’s bloggers have dragged …
Newham, east London, is the new centre of manhole cover theft in the UK. First Aberdeen and then Gloucester were targetted by opportunistic thieves looking to make a quick profit on the scrap metal market, and now it’s the turn of the capital. As the …
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