Londonist likes poker. Remember when we won that trophy earlier this year? Wow that was sweet… …Anyway as much as we love the Gutshot club up on the Clerkenwell Road, what London is really missing is a really swanky gambling establishment with rugs and leather …
Everyone knows about Chinese New Year – when the novelty of Christmas and the western New Year wears off, along comes the feasting and lion dances and lucky red envelopes as well as a surge of interest in Chinese horoscopes. But there is far more …
It is a truth universally acknowledged that London loves tourists and tourists love London – despite the lamentations of some patrons of our city. A new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery is due to open on Thursday 6th October, and not only are you invited …
Note: As fully paid-up members of the Union of Tired Hacks, we are professionally obliged to use the phrase ‘croaked it’ in any article about dwindling amphibian populations. We hope that this will not spoil your enjoyment of this article. Our frogs and toads are …
If Londonist were invited to take part in the venerable comedy/chat show hybrid Room 101 (Wed 10pm BBC2), we are sure we would have no trouble coming up with a list of items to be sent to the titular chamber, never to return. Let’s see: …
Ladytron – Witching Hour (Island) Glacial, stylish and majestic. These are words quite rightly bandied about when speaking of British based electro-pop outfit Ladytron Founded in Liverpool in 1998, Scousers Danny & Reuben joined forces with Scot Helen and Bulgarian Mira to pursue a then …
The 13th Raindance Film Festival is well underway and we’ve already been bowled over by the gems on offer. Yesterday we saw a cracking Swedish police thriller based on Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander novels, a snowy Japanese indie flick about three kids up to their …
There’s only one film we could kick off with this week and that film is…Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Ok, not really. Although we will get to that eventually. No, the film we’re most interested in this week is David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence. It’s …
We like modern Italians so very much, what with their rich foods and fine wines, innate sense of style, glamorous crime syndicates and all that dolce vita stuff. But we love their Roman forbears, who came, saw, conquered and, most importantly for us, founded this …
The Space is a Grade II listed former church in West Ferry, East London, currently used as an arts centre for the local and wider community. A new season of performances is planned, called Out of London, to be performed by (and performed to) the …
This Sunday the Arizona Cardinals will play the San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City. It will be the first NFL regular season game to be played outside the US and if it works they want to start taking a game abroad every season. Guess where …
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