José Mourinho won his first tournament as Chelsea boss yesterday, but lost a few friends and supporters in the process. After his petulant outbursts before the Barça game, followed by the silly accusations after that game, he was sent off during the Carling Cup Final …
Good news for all the capital’s literary heads. Roehapmton Univiersity is launching an MA in Creative Writing, and to celebrate they have organised a “series of evenings in which acclaimed writers will read from their recent work and discuss their craft”. These ‘acclaimed writers’ include …
In order to show our readers that Urban Junkies is a really worthwhile addition to Londonist, we took their event advice and checked out the Under A Tenner installation at the Design Museum. We made our way down the Shad Thames (which was unfortunately overrun …
Londonist is a big supporter of the Arts, or at least it is one of our New Year resolutions to be. This week we bring you an exciting event to fill your Wednesday evening (a typically boring evening for us). The ICA (a favourite Londonist …
It’s always nice to find out about new types of crime, especially ones that happen in the back room of East End boozers, so it was with interest that Londonist noted the recent crackdown on an illegal Finch breeding ring in Bethnal Green. Police and …
The latest government figures on truancy were released today and it was bad news for London as the capital had the highest rate in the country, although this is probably good news for any retailer with a lax policy on selling cigarettes to kids. Given …
Here at Londonist we’ve never considered driving a bus around London to be an easy job. Navigating the capital on four wheels is bad enough without having to steer a large red dinosaur down streets designed to hold plague carts. Then there are the passengers …
The award-winning Zaha Hadid was today announced as the designer of London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre. Which may or may not be the plain old London Aquatics Centre, depending on whether we get the 2012 Olympics. Either way, it will be built. The building looks very …
The treasures of the pharoah Tutankhamun are returning to London after more than 30 years, the BBC reports. And they’re going to be on show in the Millennium Dome. This is extremely good news. The horde is a priceless array of death-trappings that is as …
We know that some of you were lucky enough to play small roles in last year’s sleeper hit comedy Shaun of the Dead, and we know that like us you’ve watched its various successes with barely restrained glee. Some of the Londonist folks were involved …
We spotted a couple of reviews of London-related books over the weekend that might be worth adding to the reading-list (once we’ve finished the pile of books we got over Xmas that is). The first is The Subterranean railway by Christian Wolmer. Subtitled How the …
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