Young Vic Theatre amongst international finalists for Riba architecture prize Climate change activists target Heathrow What would they make of the Red Bull air race, over the Thames? 8 year-old black belt was told he’d never play sport Hazel Blears reopens enquiry into new Thames …
Imagine a TV show combining all the whirl and sparkly outfits of Strictly Come Dancing with the foreign glamour and international pop-geopolitics of Eurovision… Doesn’t that sound amazing?! Imagine no more, as The Eurovision Dance Contest sashays onto our screens on September 1st! Dancers from …
After an amazing weekend for the capital, we were wondering how long it would be for some good old fashioned political bitching to start. The answer seems to be “about 8 seconds” as Mayor Ken Livingstone launched an attack on a “staggering” £10,000 taxi bill …
LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the …
We don’t talk about opera enough on Londonist so here’s a double-whammy of high notes and hollering… For the full Royal Opera House effect without going to the Royal Opera House, the BP Summer Screen brings Tosca to the masses tonight. Puccini’s tale of love, …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 2nd July 1865: One-time Methodist minister William Booth preaches to a large crowd at an open-air ‘mission’ in Whitechapel, founding the ‘East London Christian Mission’, which would later be renamed ‘The Salvation Army’. Tuesday – 3rd July 1981: …
A nasty day in London, when it seems we came close to something even more horrific than 7 July two years ago. And rumours are circulating of another discovery in Park Lane. Sky News have a lead suggesting disaster was averted by the first cop …
There’s a mere 5 years, 1 month and 5 days until the start of the 2012 Olympics, and we’ll bet you’re wondering how you’re going to fill your time until then. Sure, there are other sporting events you could watch and cultural events you could …
We could labour the much-loved line about running away to the circus but we’re not going to. We’re just going to say that this looks like an absolutely cracking season of international contemporary circus in the extraordinary Roundhouse space. Having already filled it several times …
Can you imagine the floorspace of 13 Royal Albert Halls or 10 St Paul’s Cathedrals? We are boggled by it. But that’s what’s beneath the dome (and that’s the last time we’ll mention that word…) of The O2, London’s latest flagship entertainment venue rising like …
Oliver and Adelaide Tambo lived in Muswell Hill for 30 years. Adelaide worked as a nurse at the Whittington Hospital and they raised 3 children in London. In 1990 they were the first recipients of the Freedom of the Borough of Haringey. Why? You may …
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