London’s Hottest Live Venues
Summer’s decided to turn up at last, but which are the worst venues for being sweaty and horrible?
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Last FM Laid Low By Heat
Image / Alex.MacDonald The temperature only hit a semi-sweaty 23 degrees on Sunday, but it proved enough to temporarily down one of London’s online success stories. Last.fm, the online music and social media business based in Old Street, was knocked asunder when one of the …
Water Fight Wrangles
There were tears before bedtime yesterday when a Facebook “splashmob” got a little out of hand and resulted in 9 people being arrested. The ES pictures show a jolly group of plastic bazooka armed lovelies frolicking in the evening sun enjoying a refreshing water fight …
The Bird Lady Of Haggerston
The year was 1959, and in an often overlooked corner of Hackney, one of the world’s most recognisable Hollywood beauties was bringing just a touch of Californian colour to a peculiarly English affair: a budgie show. Jayne Mansfield, living in London while making the film …
Let Them Drink Tap Water
Government departments are being asked to switch from bottled to humble tap water for lubricating the endless meetings involved in running the Civil Service. Hot on the heels of Ken’s campaign to get London’s diners to insist on tap water in restaurants, this switch could …
History in the Caffeinated Making
Time was when getting into the Guinness Book of World Records really meant something. You had to walk 130 kilometres with a milk bottle balanced on your head. Or keep on teasing the ladies with your Hot Stuff routine well into your sixties in order …
The Book Grocer
Even on its quietest weeks, London is something of a happy haven for bibliophiles such as ourselves, though we may be doing nothing more than perusing one of the city’s many lovely bookshops. This week, however, we’re in a veritable book geek heaven, as the …
Music Choice: Monday 25th – Friday 29th February
This week saw Londonist Get Scientific when we previewed We Are Scientists playing Soho Revue Bar this Tuesday, get excited about Eurovision and get cosy with Portico Quartet. A busy week all in all! Looking ahead to this week however, we have Eels playing Royal …
The Book Grocer
Greetings, FOBGs (that’s Friends of the Book Grocer to the uninitiated), and a belated happy new year to you all! After an extended holiday slumber (bad, lazy Book Grocer), we return to bring you our weekly picks for the best of London’s literary(ish) events. And …
Week Around the -Ists
Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye. Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city’s only English-language paper. Gothamist believed that a …
Zombie Love
Lets face it, everybody loves a bit of zombie, there’s something oddly loveable about the undead as they lumber about feasting on flesh and being generally hungry. So what could possibly be better than a whole night of zombies on the truly massive and awe-inspiring …
