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 …
It’s time to announce our third Londonist guided walk. When: October 12. Meet at 7pm outside Atlantis Books, Museum Street. What: This walk around Bloomsbury will mention Mr Crowley, screaming queens – of the Egyptian variety – haunted clocks, incompetent executioners and much else as …
As befits a truly global capital, London has established itself as a hub in the important international trade of tourist-attracting human reproductions, importing Chinese warriors and exporting waxwork celebrities. While the first crowds were taking a gander at 20 members of the Emperor Ying’s terracotta …
Boris wants London to tackle bike thieves. Especially this one who’s on the run. Not cycling. Which is a little bit silly of him. Yesterday was 30 years since Mark Bolan died in Barnes. We export wax figures just as Chinese terrecotta figures arrive. Terracotta …
If Londonist were really rich we’d be out every night doing LOADS of fun stuff. We’d be going to see all of the cool things at London Design Festival. We’d be drinking beer out of plastic cups and dancing at the Get Cape, Wear Cape, …
Monday night sees mad Australians Architecture in Helsinki come to the capital to play Koko after a stop off at Bestival this weekend. Tickets are £12.50 each and still available for box office collection. Faithless play the first of two nights in the capital at …
They’re here! It’s taken 2 years of planning, 46 crates, 2 days on the road from Xian to Beijing, 4 inter-continental air freight batches and a lot of extremely careful unpacking to bring 120 marvellous objects, including 12 warriors, other life-sized figures and even 2 …
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 – …
16. Strange Invaders Whilst residing at his terraced house in Kentish Town, during the 1980s, Christopher Fowler began to notice glimpses of unusual whitish creatures in his back garden. After finally finding the time to fully investigate, and to dismiss such possible hallucinations on his …
The London arts scene got some good news today. The National Portrait Gallery and The V&A are amongst 43 galleries across England to benefit from a whole load of cash from the Wolfson Charity grant: over £4million in total. So what does this mean for …
It seems that half the country (and Londonist staff) is on holiday at the moment. Still, here’s the best of what’s on musically across the capital this week. Jazz singer-songwriter Norah Jones is the highlight of Bank Holiday Monday night, playing with M. Ward at …
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