Following their acclaimed reunion last year, the surviving founding members of one of rock’s most influential bands, the MC5, come together again, this time in a co-bill at the Royal Festival Hall on 25 February 2005, with sonic jazz phenomenon Sun Ra Arkestra (pictured above). …
No time for a fully-fledged Friday Film News this week, as it’s the Londonist Office Xmas Party this afternoon, so we’re just going to skip right to the interesting film tidbits section: Following on from last week’s teaser trailer, there’s now a preview of the …
This Is Local London reports that the London Assembly is set to ask Londoners for their views on where responsibility for aspects of London life should lie. The report quotes a member of the Assembly, Darren Johnson, thus: We are in a ridiculous situation where …
The first tentative predictions for a white Christmas in London are starting to come through. The Weather Action website is predicting a 50/50 chance of snow in the capital on Christmas Day…so either it will or it won’t then. Great. William Hill are not so …
Lost property is a strangely English obsession. It’s a subject which seems to tie in with those icons of British culture: the briefcase, the bowler hat and the black umbrella. Plus, lost property statistics seem to fascinate us as a nation. Weird bits of trivia …
One Foot in the Grave didn’t work and The Office didn’t really cut it, but the Americans aren’t ones to give up, especially when it means they can make loads of money out a of a television series without really having to think about it. …
The Londonist was interested to read that about 200,000 people left the UK this year for more than 12 months, half of them aged between 25 and 44. A total of 513,000 people arrived, according to figures from the Office Of National Statistics (pdf file). …
The Standard is thought to be planning a free version of the daily newspaper. The slimmed down version will most likely be called Standard-lite and will only be available between the hours of 12pm and 2pm, so as not to step on the toes of …
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