Regular readers may recall our three previous appeals concerning the welfare of London’s teddy bear population. Homelessness among ursine simulacra is a growing problem, towards which the mainstream press remain studiously myopic. Sure, they’ve devoted tens of column inches to Pudsey the posterbear over the …
There’s a rather eerie silence over literary London this week, but with the US election, Bonfire Night and the Lord Mayor’s Show all happening in rapid succession over the next 5 days, we suppose that this is one of those (rare?) occasions when life is …
Beverley Knowles Fine Art in Notting Hill is a small and beautifully formed space dedicated to providing a platform for contemporary British female artists. For the next month you can view an exhibition by Andrea Blood and Zoe Sinclair, otherwise known as The Girls. The …
Those of you worried about the continuing residency in London of her Madgeness, now that her marriage to Guy has gone the way of all sleb-unions, fear not: it seems Mr. Ritchie will move to their Wiltshire mansion, leaving Ms. Ciccone the Notting Hill pad. …
Notting Hill’s “temple to good booze and fine living,” Trailer Happiness was a few steps ahead of the London cocktail craze when they opened in back in ’03. It’s still a good spot to keep in mind for mixed drinks in a casual setting. Trailer …
Fears that the “credit crunch” would cramp Carnival style, would seem to have been unfounded as around 250,000 people turned out to revel in the Children’s Day Parade yesterday. There was a year on year increase in arrests with 98 people nicked and 7 pit …
If you’re born with the proverbial silver soup-eating utensil in your gob, yet your aspirations include running a country with a long-standing disdain towards the average toff, how can you relate to the lumpenproletariat? Maybe by showing that you suffer from the same troubles they …
There seems to be a lot of protesting going on today. Ever eager to facilitate your assimilation of the salient parts of the day’s news stories, Londonist has bunged a couple of vaguely outdoors related posts together and drawn our own spurious but fun conclusion. …
Rejoice or recoil: It looks as though the long-rumoured film adaptation of Martin Amis’ London Fields is viable again. Originally announced in 2001 with David Cronenberg directing, the project had been shelved as of 2006. But now, with Hallam Foe’s David Mackenzie slated as the …
The weather is batty. One minute you’re showing some (pale) skin, reveling in the promise of summer, and the next minute you wake up to a snowstorm. What could, at first glance, be wonky hangover vision, is the undeniable truth: it is April, and it …
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