Well, that mostly wraps things up for Londonist in ’06. From Friday until something like the 3rd January, we’ll be on our seasonal hols, relaxing, drinking lots of whisky and not thinking about the quirks of London life in any way. Whatsoever. Oh, who are …
We need green energy. And on this blustery isle, one of the best sources is wind power. Trouble is, we’re also a nation of moaners, and any large structures get the NIMBYs tilting at windmills. So what to do? Stick them offshore of course (the …
Welcome to the future of London advertising: damn dirty apes: The7stars and outdoor media buyer Kinetic have partnered to provide 2.5m high backlit posters strapped to people’s backs in a central London campaign for whisky brand Monkey Shoulder. The Moving Board mobile posters have been …
Londonist was watching the future of law enforcement yesterday afternoon. No not Robocop, but this quantum leap forward in making the police force look even sillier than they already do – head mounted video cameras. We were going to rant on about yet another little …
Last week we went out to watch a man from Beirut with colourful trousers and big hair, sing songs about fat girls, gay affairs, and lollipops. Tonight, we think you should do the same. Mika was born in the middle of a warzone in 1983 …
London has overtaken Paris to become the city with Europe’s best jobs outlook.. It’s not often you hear this phrase but due to the UK’s “better weather conditions”, a friendly between Australia and Denmark will be held at QPR next year. A strange one. Today …
Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few …
The big news over the weekend was that the 7 July bombers had also planned to target the Australian cricket team during last year’s Ashes. The aim was “to spray sarin gas into the dressing rooms at Edgbaston”, but the plan was apparently abandoned at …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Art of the Brain, tomorrow at the Dana Centre If we told you that the blurb …
If you can get away early today you should check out the late afternoon Firecracker screening of Guns & Talks. It’s a quirky Korean combination of thriller and comedy revolving around a quartet of hitmen. Professional killers are an old favourite ingredient for Asian cinema, …
Are you worried about the creeping loss of civil liberties in Britain? We are, having had our own run-in with heavy-handed police not so long ago. So when we received the following email, we thought it’d be a great idea to post it up here, …
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