These four unlikely bedfellows were found on a post outside the Globe Theatre. The maudlin chap to the right is easily identifiable as an UnderWaterPirate. UWP’s creator, from Philly, takes up the backstory: UnderWaterPirates is a species of sea life from the deepest darkest parts …
The RMT Union has announced a three day tube strike next week by Metronet workers. Next week, the City of London will become Europe’s largest wifi hotspot. Tony Blair blames a distinctive black culture for the recent spate of knife and gun crime. A new …
Working mothers have begun using webcams to keep an eye on their sproglets playing the day away in childcare while they slave the day away at the office. Whatever happened to eyes in the backs of mothers’ heads? Today’s technology has obviously weeded out that …
Tony Blair has obviously been listening to a lot of Huey Lewis lately — he thinks it’s hip to be square. And what is more squareishly hip than to broadcast your political party on YouTube in the hopes of attracting the Cool Kids? In the …
As the fair weather of Spring tentatively approaches, any attempt by the pretty blue sky and sunshine to wean us all off our incessant computer based social networking by dragging us outside is made more difficult by the advent of Trig.com. Based in Sweden, it’s …
London Underground’s lost property department is a perennial staple for magazine writers looking for a quirky feature. Time and again, we’ve read about the unlikely sundries handed in at the Baker Street office – from false teeth to surfboards. One of the more remarkable items …
This week: my thoughts on the Glastonbury hoo-hah plus a quick round up of forthcoming London music festivals for every budget I was supposed to be meeting up with a friend this morning to have breakfast and catch up but got blown out because she …
Every so often we meet up with people who are doing things a little bit out of the ordinary for a little chinwag. This time round meet Helen who’s rapidly gaining status somewhere you’d probably not expect to find anyone born after the ’50s anywhere …
Brooklyn-based artistic collaborators Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, who also happen to be married to one another are making their London debut as part of
We do enjoy a good debate here at Londonist HQ so were pleased to be asked along to last night’s Guardian/BAFTA Film Forum entitled The Role of the Film Critic in the Digital Age: It is easy and inexpensive for anyone to set themselves up …
Wired reports that London is on its way – once again? – to becoming a new media giant. Or rather, a “new media” giant. “London 2.0″ they’re calling it. We don’t know who “they” are, but that’s what they’re calling it. Probably some group called …
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