Fitzrovia wasn’t always so. It was once plain North Soho, though it was far from plain. The poet and chronic Sohoitis victim J. Meary Tambimuttu Christened the area ‘Fitzrovia’ after the Fitzroy tavern on Charlotte Street, where he frequently became pissed and, in his intoxicated …
Favourite naked woman dancing with dead pig story of the day: Animal rights activists have described as “sick” a live art performance involving a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours. Kira O’Reilly’s show, called “Inthewrongplaceness” will be performed at the Newlyn Art …
Really, it was worth reporting on this story just so we could write this headline wasn’t it? So here it is: Daniel ‘Harry Potter’ Radcliffe
Time Out have announced the details of their ‘London on Screen’ season designed to celebrate “the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades”: The streets, buildings and monuments of our city appear regularly in films from around the world, from big-budget Hollywood …
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 …
No, the sun hasn’t got to Father Hunter. This is on a slightly larger scale: A lifesize naked sculpture by Antony Gormley, creator of The Angel of the North, may be installed on the roof of the Palace of Westminster for three months as part …
Oh no, not more sport! At the risk of sounding like a skipping CD, this is getting ridiculous. With Wimbledon added to the surfeit of sporting action on the small screen, there’s even less room for actual, interesting programmes than ever. Summer of sport our …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tuesday 27 June Is there such a thing as Women’s Journalism? Eleanor Mills, co-editor of Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs – 100 Years of the Best Journalism …
We never got Pamela Anderson. Or Baywatch for that matter. A show about a talking car we get, but a bunch of idiots running around on a beach? No thanks. Then there was that sex tape thing, but she was fucking the dude from Motley …
You may have tripped over and fallen into it once, you may have been wandering by and thought “ooh, I bet that place would be good for an outdoor film screening in the summer.” And you wouldn’t be the only one… The Scoop is the …
Hands up if you like cyclists. According to the Independent today that’ll be quite a few of us. A 50% increase in bike journeys across the capital in just five years and despite all the arguments over funding for cycle lanes, Ken is hoping to …
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