The Coin Street Turkish Festival was as loud, hot and tasty as it was last year though a little smaller as it only occupied the Bernie Spain Gardens this year and did not stretch out along the river walk, making everything seem twice as crowded …
As ever, more marvellous instore gigs are happening this week And well, we couldn’t let tonights pass really could we. After supporting The Pipettes since we first saw them way back in late 2004, there’s somewhat of a collective smile going round the music dungeon …
We’re going to have to start a new category soon. Stupidly expensive stuff goes on sale at Harrods. This week, it’s whisky (or ‘whiskey’ as the source article sacrilegiously spells it). The Islay distillery of Ardbeg is offering its rare 1965 single-malt for £2000. That’s, …
We’d like to start writing more about comedy here at Londonist. We have (arguably) the best comedy circuit in the world yet it has gone thusfar unwritten about by us at Londonist HQ. But fear not, we have changed our ways. We kick off with …
The first of an occasional browse through The LRB’s personals: Bright man, Jew, London, seeks compatible woman; childbearing inclinations The harlequin of doubt has visited me more than once. Often he his accompanied by the jester of shame. Either of these, however, is preferable to …
FrightFest is dead, long live The Zone Horror FrightFest 2006 – yeah it’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s also business as usual and to paraphrase Jack Black the business is shocking your socks off: Over four days (Friday 25 Aug – Monday 28th …
Another day, another Hoff update. This time from Contact Music who reckon that a swooning hotel clerk saved David Hasselhoff’s life by er… not swooning. Or something. DAVID HASSELHOFF owes his life to a London hotel clerk who literally swooned at his feet seconds after …
Occasionally we find a band we love who aren’t from the UK. We listen to the album obsessively for a week or so and then decide we want to see them live. Inevitably, this means that they were in the UK the week before we …
All the highlights from our sister sites around the globe. Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word “Jackass” in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we’re going to use it as much as possible throughout this …
Another first-person article. I promise it’s not the start of a trend! Normal service resumes after this post. I wrote an angry, personal opinion post on Monday all about how my friend Phil the physicist goth (part-time goth, anyway) was fined £80 by police for …
Two dark and disturbing despatches from the depths of D-list celebrity today. First up: central London is now a Pete Burns free zone. The ex-Celeb Big Brother ‘star’ was conditionally bailed for harrassing ex-boyfriend Jason Peters but has been ordered to wear an electronic tag …
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