Who would have thought it, but hey look! The London International Mime Festival is back – for the 29th time. Mime is perhaps the wrong word for what looks like a very experimental festival – there is a distinct lack of white painted faces, gloves …
Just when you thought you were done with Christmas and New Year celebrations, marking the end of the festivities by shredding your tree and wassailing your last wassails to the Green Man on 12th Night then along comes a few more New Year celebrations. It’s …
Kind of. The Tricycle theatre is set to follow its stagings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the Bloody Sunday hearings and the Hutton inquiry with a staged indictment of Tony Blair for a crime of aggression against Iraq. The real PM won’t be present of …
Ken’s in the sights of The Standard again – this time for hanging out with terrorists: The Mayor met the wives of the so-called “Miami Five”, who have been found guilty by a US court of conspiracy to spy on American military bases. Details only …
Mustaf Jamma (also frequently written “Jama”), co-conspirator in the robbery which led to the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky, may have fled the country “dressed as a Muslim woman”, says BBC.com. This, of course, renews pleas from some quarters that the full-length niqab veil traditionally …
Blair is having a time of it. Following on from a little unwanted attention by the police it turns out the one person in the world that he wants to be noticed by doesn’t really care: Tony Blair has failed to influence the policies of …
Everybody should learn at least one dance in their lifetime, and for maximum impact it has got to be Salsa. Releasing your inner Cuban in downtown London is easier than you think but to the Londonist’s mind there is no better place to pick up …
Yesterday we said: West Ham’s new owners are playing two hands. If they stay in the Premiership, fine and dandy, but if not there’s the possibility of moving into the Olympic stadium in a few years which might allow the lucrative sale of their existing …
Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month – a virtual book tour in which he’ll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we’d leave the Q&A’s and reviews for other legs of the trip we …
Londonist went along to the Webby Night Party at the ICA last night. Hailed as the Oscars of the Internet by The New York Times and one of the most prestigious awards in the world by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international …
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic Airways has announced a new London-U.S. route to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to begin on 23 April, 2007. This will help open up Virgin to the midwest and heartland of the U.S. It will also be a convenient hub for travel …
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