Monday Miscellanea
Some numbers and a corresponding image to start the week… 34 days until the clocks go back 89 days until Christmas 14 Mondays left in the year 34 X 89 X 14 = 42,364 which is a tranquil view of London from Greenwich Park as …
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In Pictures: Air Guitar Championships UK
And as the legend has it, a time will come when all will put down the cell-phones which burden them and the weapons that burden others, and pick up their Air Guitars together as one, and a new civilisation will be formed… We arrived just …
Extra, Extra
Photo / Ronald Hackston Two girls are found guilty of causing death of vicar’s daugher Dramatic rise in stop-and-search of Afro-Carribean and Asian kids Standard editor Geordie Grieg has been putting himself about Scheme for providing “private care on NHS” axed after two deaths The …
Hairum Scarum
In a rather shameless plug by follicle slop manufacturer Brylcreem, Mayor Boris’ barnet has been named haircut of the year. That tousled look, with the flyaway blond locks flapping breezily like those of a schoolboy shivering on the frosted rugby pitch, was chosen in a …
Mrs. Winehouse Hopes Amy Reads The News Of The World
Once long ago, Mama Londonist wasn’t happy with little Londonist and wanted to give us an earful. However, Londonist had got married to this other blog with a trendy hat, a silly double-barrelled name and a penchant for perverting the course of justice. Soon, Londonist …
Olympics Burn Green
Londonist is all for environmentalism. We even clothe the Londonist baby in non-disposable washable cotton nappies and take all our groceries home from the organic food shop in a bag made of woven hemp. We wash our hair with a cuttlefish and row everywhere. However, …
Buy Nothing Day, Advertise Nothing Day
Curious and curiouser: we got a tip-off from a mysterious source that the District Line had a distinct lack of advertising over the weekend. Could this have anything to do with Buy Nothing Day, which took place on Saturday? Those baffling adverts coyly suggesting you …
Londonist Live: White Mischief at Scala
You can get packed into a club playing bad techno any weekend, but it’s not often that you get to party like it’s 1859. Saturday’s White Mischief, themed “From The Earth To The Moon”, was an evening envisioning the future as the Victorians imagined it …
Gunpowder, Treason and Placards
With bonfire night just around the corner, Parliament must be getting a little nervous. Unblinking beady eyes will no doubt be focused on Southwark Crown Court today where Brian Haw takes on Sir Ian Blair over the removal of his placards way back in May …
Yo Ho Ho And A Really Expensive Bottle Of Rum
This weekend saw the Europe’s first RumFest at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Victoria. One very unremarkable looking bottle went on display: one of the four remaining unopened bottles of Wray and Nephew rum, distilled in Jamaica, whose contents may date back as far as 1915. …
Preview: The Pick of Persian Pop
Fancy something completely different for the weekend? Next weekend that is? Howzabout a preening and prancing, full-blooded Persian pop concert? We thought that might grab your attention, for one reason or another. Most Londoners tend to forget that for every ex-pat community living in London, …
