Just a quick reminder that one of Londonist’s favourite annual exhibitions began this week: the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year at the Natural History Museum. We don’t think we could be accused of exaggeration if we said that this exhibition is absolutely stunning ever single …
Just what is going on today? First there’s tales of cursed gemstones taking up residence in the Natural History Museum, then we here that a sword factory in west London is closing down and then we discovered the rather alarming fact that we’re being overrun …
This is real Boy’s Own Adventure stuff. A black diamond, allegedly stolen from a Hindu temple and said to be cursed, is to go on display in the Natural History Museum. Three of its previous owners have committed suicide. Whether the stone will be accompanied …
Here we go again then with London Fashion Week. Don’t get us wrong, we have nothing against fashion (although it may have a few questions to ask us one day, but that’s a different matter). It’s just LFW brings up the same tired old debates …
Last week we told you all about the killer centipede which was terrorising London…kind of. So it’s nice to be able to report today that the Scolopendra Gigantea has now been returned to its rightful owner. As the BBC reports today, the nine-inch monster is …
Look at the SIZE of that thing. This will amuse our overseas readers, but here in the UK along with silly games like cricket, celebrities like Benny Hill and food like deep fried mars bars we like our insects to be small, non poisonous and …
Sharon Stone was pretty cool in Sam Raimi’s The Quick and The Dead and erm… Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol, but that’s about it. More famous for her undercarriage than her ability to deliver a line, she’s about to rekindle her career with Basic …
Ahh the Millennium Diamond. You took more than three years to cut, you weigh 203.04 carats and you are the second largest faceted D-Flawless diamond in the world (whatever that means). Plus, someone tried to half-inch you using a JCB and a speedboat. This makes …
No, nothing to do with the Michael Jackson trial… This is how the first platypus has been described by the Natural History Museum’s mammal curator Daphne Hills. Now over 200 years old the juvenile male specimen is deemed too valuable to go on public display, …
Huge sculptures seem to be London’s ‘thing’ at the moment. What with the chair and table on Hampstead Heath and the WEEE man over at City Hall. Now the NHM has its very own large, outdoor artwork in the form of Diane Maclean’s ‘Mountain’. Maclean’s …
Quentin Wheeler, the keeper and head of entomology at London’s Natural History Museum, and another colleague have put the insect world into a bit of a spin after deciding to name three newly discovered species of slime-mould beetle after George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald …
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