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Exhibition of the Week: Melanie Manchot at the Photographer’s Gallery

Londonist favourite the Photographer’s Gallery is currently showing new work by Melanie Manchot from a period she spent in Moscow. The exhibition consists of Groups and Locations (Moscow), a series of colour photographs, and the seven-channel video work Hotel Moscow. In both works, Manchot instigates …

Hot Hot Heat

It’s good to see that the whole Ken Livingstone furore hasn’t deterred the Evening Standard from it’s everyday crusade towards pioneering journalism…as these thermal images of Buckingham Palace clearly show. Why are we looking at thermal images of Buckingham Palace, you may ask. Well, it’s …

London Eye Snow Globe

The Losing of Camden 274

As a bus driver in London there are many professional responsibilities one has to take on: customer relations, passenger safety, road etiquette and, erm…knowing the bus route. If a driver fails in just one of these areas then it can quickly lead to chaos, or …

London Cabbie..The Game!

Grand Theft Auto step aside because a leading video games developer has announced that they have secured the licence to create a driving game based on the London Black Cab. Now, before you all rush out to your local games shop demanding that they reserve …

Sport At Heart

We haven’t posted much about the Olympic bid recently. Mainly because you can read about it just about everywhere, but also because we’re sick to the back teeth of it. When it gets to the point where they’re using the DLR as a promotional tool …

Bumper Sports Roundup

A wealth of sports news today, the major story being that London’s bid to host the opening stages of the Tour de France looks likely to be accepted. According to “French officials” whose job it is to assess the applications, London’s bid is currently wearing …