Every day this month 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 …
The Mayor of London wants you to stay up late. Stay up late for the Lates October season. He wanted you to cut back on sleep and catch up on culture back in May when the first Lates season was launched, now it’s October, he …
Dance can often seem an intimidating or impenetrable art form for the non-pointy toed punter so here are our top 4 recommendations for shows to see in the rest of 2007. All will blow your mind in different ways. Go pop your dance cherry on …
Sprawl’s always-interesting Interplay festival returns to The Spitz tonight with the fourth instalment in its ongoing series of digital art collaborations. For over a decade Iris Garrelfs and Douglas Benford’s collective have brought us events from some of the most exciting names in contemporary experimental …
Sitting outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall on a sunny weekend afternoon a month or so ago this Londonista was thrown into anxiety spasms sighting a man apparently about to leap off the roof of Shell Mex House and plunge to his death in the Thames. …
Antony Gormley’s rooftop statues are this year’s Sultan’s Elephant. The tourist bewilderment devices (TBDs) have been appearing on the highpoints around the Hayward Gallery like petrified chimneysweeps. In response to our first post about this, someone suggested we map them. Well, here you go. It’s …
The ever-kooky Tracey Emin wants us all to get amorous in the long grass this summer, inspired by her latest piece. The rather large flag, which is a backdrop of swimming sperm with the words “One Secret Is To Save Everything” written in large red …
The Hayward Gallery wants you to get all freaky on their ass, and produce some bonkers video content to use in their 60 Second Surreal exhibition. The idea is that you record a minute-long snippet of video (and not just your cat asleep, it’s got …
If you’re the type to enjoy a trip to the cinema at weekends but you’re getting tired of badly-lit Ukrainian experimental docu-dramas at your local art house emporium then the Brixton Ritzy offers an alternative. Instead of picking up popcorn and a migraine from hard-to-read …
Three men in their early 20s were stabbed in the ticket hall at Holloway Road Tube station last night. One is serious but stable with stomach injuries. The other two have cuts to their hands and arms. One man has been arrested. A reporter for …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that London loves tourists and tourists love London – despite the lamentations of some patrons of our city. A new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is due to open on Thursday 6th October, and not only are you invited …
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