If you didn’t fancy staying up all night to listen to Fearn Cotton’s witterings you probably woke up to good news this morning about Slumdog Millionaire’s haul of 8 Oscars and Kate’s broken duck. For a view from backstage, however, Londonist Hollywood film buffs can …
We’re considering giving our notice at Londonist Towers and upping sticks for a new home. Specifically, we want to move into Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicale. The prefabricated bungalow, standing on the front lawn outside Tate Modern, is in London as part of the excellent Prouvé …
Morrissey starts the first of a string of six dates at the Roundhouse on Monday night, playing every night except Thursday until next Sunday. As you’d expect, tickets are all gone, but you may be able to find a few last minute spares floating around. …
A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, …
The cold weather – and holiday festivities – descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many …
SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses …
A night of clubbing is as much about the music you want to hear as it is the experience you hope to get out of it. Whilst there are endless opportunities to don your best threads and brave the night buses to see and be …
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to …
Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …
As bands jump across the Atlantic to play this weekend’s V Festival and next weekend’s Reading and Leeds festivals London is treated to a wealth of bands that rarely play these shores. Here’s a selection of the best. Monday night sees the amazing Rilo Kiley …
It’s the end for electro-disco club Computer Blue this weekend, and they’re going off with a bang, hosting a gig from the awesome Dead Disco! Last time we talked about the Leeds trio they were unsigned, but now Warners have snapped them up and they’re …
