Croydon Council want businesses to rent out their toilets to the public and display signs to alert passers-by that they can relieve themselves in those very spots. The badness of this idea starts in the very notion of ‘renting’ toilets – after the Joe Orton …
This weekend, Rowan Walker wrote in the Observer of her torturous but strangely addictive experience of training at the Islington Boxing Gym to raise awareness of the fierce campaign to get female boxing recognised as an Olympic Sport for the 2012 Games in London. According …
That’s Tony Cowards‘s wish as he brings his one man stand-up show to The Offside Bar in Islington tonight. Tony, originally from Suffolk but now living in our very own East End, performed his hour long “Festival of Football” at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer …
Local trader Mike Weedon has proposed new toilets to be built in the trendy bar and club-filled area of Islington. The proposal has been taken seriously by Islington Council as imore public conveniences should be available … but not if they’re named after Joe Orton. …
Next week our beleaguered government will be announcing innovative new policies aimed at tackling the public health time bomb of increasingly fat and lazy Londoners. GPs will be prescribing – wait for it – exercise, of all things, and dishing out maps of local parks …
Sometimes, Londonist stumbles across fantastic new bands by accident. (In this case getting drunk on wine playing video games.) We were introduced to Mitch. And now we’re introducing Mitch to you. Meet Mitch. Who’s in the band? Darren – Vocals, Guitars Jason – Guitars, Vocals …
Anybody who’s spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council’s “Technology Mile” service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet. According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks …
Do you enjoy filling in questionnaires and sipping drinks in pint measures? Are you aware of how British you are? Would you like to go to the pub to do a quiz that won’t ask tricky questions about football in the 1960s but instead tax …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 24th September 1917: A zeppelin drops a 50 kilogram bomb that lands just outside the Bedford Hotel on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, central London. 13 people are killed and a further 26 injured. Tuesday – 25th September 1818: …
Cult canadian star Feist is back in the UK playing a sold out date at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Monday night. Now “1, 2, 3, 4″ is all over an advert it might be tricky to find tix but we reckon the ever reliable …
And so to our final rugby watching venue post with just 4 teams remaining to accommodate. Italy play Portugal tonight in Paris, 7pm Bar Italia – where else? Japan crunch with Wales tomorrow in Cardiff at 8pm. We didn’t think Japan would be the hardest …
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