We love the ICA. We’ve spent many hours in the cinema trying to pry off the Takeshi Kitano nameplates from the chairs and sipping wine (the one that’s ten pence more than the house red) in the bar while dunking chips and ruminating aloud on …
What can we say…apart from maybe “Thanks God that’s over with”? The Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club have finally won their case to use the ponds in the winter (although, why they couldn’t have just changed the name of the club to Hampstead Heath Summer …
An update on yesterday’s post about the mystery girl depcited in Lucian Freud’s most recent work entitled, The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer, it seems we may have a winner. The Times reported today that is seems the young girl may be a 32-year-old …
Lucian Freud’s newest work The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer is unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The question on everyone’s minds is “Who is the girl?” The self-portrait depicts Freud in his studio with a young nude woman clutched …
The PM spent a portion of this morning sitting in Buckingham Palace asking the Queen to dissolve Parliament, perhaps nibbling a Mr Kipling’s Fondant Fancy (or if you’re a fan of David Icke, dancing naked in the guts of small children and laughing about the …
The press are currently having a field day with some comments that Prince Charles muttered under his breath at a photocall at Swiss ski resort with the Heir and the Spare today. When asked how Charles was feeling about his wedding he joked: “I’m glad …
Lock up your cliches and hide your stash because this week the Monday Music Review brings you the officially most dangerous band in rock ‘n’ roll since the last one, the hardest working slacker in pop and two friends from Brixton who thought it would …
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Londonist can sometimes see why we journalists get a bad name. A quick surf of even today’s newspapers will see that Brian Drysdale, “48”, driver of the car involved in the rail crash in Berkshire last Saturday, drove onto the railway line, removed his clothes, …
Science has finally managed to catch up with the adverts in the back of comics from about 20 years ago with the introduction of an X-Ray machine that makes people look naked. Admittedly it’s not in the handy spectacle format all perverts in training have …
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