If you’re stumbling around department stores, going red and sweating with embarrassment as you try to choose the perfect piece of lingerie for your other girlfriend, then this Thursday help may be at hand. Both this week and next Thurs (20th Dec), John Lewis on …
Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and …
We’re a little fed up of worthy awareness-raising ‘days’. National Tuberous Sclerosis Awareness Week might be really important, but it doesn’t really turn us on. National Ammo Day in the US sounds particularly unsavoury too – not just for the subject matter, but also, for …
Well, ish. Don’t get too excited. On Saturday night ITV went to film PRIMEVAL (the sci-fi series) in Kingson’s branch of John Lewis – and paid them £5,000 for the privilege. We’re not sure how many actual real live dinosaur models were used (if indeed …
Naming babies after where they were conceived or where they born is slightly embarrassing. If the former, then it’s rather too much information to present strangers with your child Pizza Hut Fire Escape. If it’s the latter then there is the risk of bringing up …
The first ever London Games Festival will take place 2 – 7 October, bringing gamers out of their darkened bedrooms and forcing them to interact with one another in real life. This “celebration of interactive entertainment” not only hopes to draw the dedicated, unblinking gamer …
There’s the rest of today, all of tomorrow and all of Saturday. That’s a little over two days to brace yourself and exercise your mental defences. When the clock strikes midnight and it officially becomes Sunday 26th March… that’s it. It’s going to be Mother’s …
With a huge Glastonbury shaped hole in the calendar this year and the faint promise of warm weather lingering on the horizon, it’s time for Festival Season to slip into Wacky Races mode. With T In The Park and V 2006 neck and neck out …
The body which represents West End retailers has made public its plans to improve the area by cutting traffic and creating more pedestrian areas. The New West End Company unveiled its ‘stretegic study’ called Choices for a Better West End (PDF) at the end of …
Valentine’s Day. What a nightmare. A nightmare for lonely singletons (and let’s be honest, if you’re new to London with no roots here, it can be a very lonely place): with the Post Office getting rid of the second post delivery, there’s not even that …
