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What Is It With London And Birds?

Every few months you can rely on a ‘bird’ story appearing somewhere in the London press. This time it’s those precious ravens over at the Tower again. According to this report the sacred birds have been coming “under attack” from flocks of crows who “swoop …

Thursday Gig Guide

Looking round the interweb, you sometimes get the impression that web designers are more interested in showing off their latest graphic ideas, rather than making things usable. Not so much of a problem if all you’re doing is trying to market something that can only …

Houston Has A Problem

At first glance, the fact that an R’n’B star in London on promotional duties gouged his eye out in an apparent suicide attempt, is mildly interesting, probably a good chance to make some cheap pirate gags, but have a look under the expensive sportswear attired …

Pride On the Tube

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 …

Bloc Party In At No. 2 In BBC ‘Sound of 2005′ List

London band Bloc Party had better prepare themselves for the inevitable ‘New Kids on the Bloc’ headlines as they came second in a BBC News poll of 110 critics and broadcasters. (New York band The Bravery topped the poll but we’ll let our friends at …

We love you Jose, We Do

Arsenal vs Tottenham is always good value, respective league standings don’t really count, the animosity level is always high and they tend to not pass without incident. This weekends game was no exception with Spurs narrowly being beaten by the Gunners 4 – 5. Arsenal …

‘Unique’ Shakespeare

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 …