Oxford Street’s Very Important Pedestrian Day on Saturday was such a success there are calls for it to become permanently pedestrianised. The Evening Standard yesterday ran a cri de coeur to banish fume-belching, noise-throbbing, snail-crawling traffic from London’s world famous shopping district. We’ve been here …
Four weeks till Christmas! Argh. Funds are all focused on present buying and getting through the party season but we still want to go out and about because the heating isn’t working properly at home. We can’t afford to go and see Gandalf drop his …
Steve Rider. The last person you’d expect to be connected to a CS gas attack. Except, perhaps, Pliny the Elder. Mayor plans more pedestrian areas. Thames, Serpentine to be paved over. With nougat. The Thames Gateway management team are ‘weak’. In other news, the 2012 …
The name of the band Korpiklaani means ‘forest clan’ in Finnish, so perhaps it isn’t so surprising that the band started their set at Camden Underground an hour or so late. Our theory is that they got lost on the Tube, distracted by the leafy …
Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at …
From BBC News: London must become car-free if it is to substantially cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new report. Crikey. In response to the findings London Green Party member Jenny Jones said: “I have asked the London mayor to do a feasibility study …
Emma Hutchins‘ one woman show embodies its own ethos of “having it all”. Written and performed by the woman herself, she rises to the occasion delivering 3 familiar yet absorbing Bridget Jones-esque monologues and throwing in some Japanese Butoh for good measure. Ambitious? Yes. Misguided? …
This Week In London’s History Monday – 13th August 1977: Hundreds of protesters clash with police at a National Front march in Lewisham, south-east London. About 400 Socialist Worker Party members had gathered to try to prevent the National Front march, but had been prevented …
Londonist ask that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Santoré 59-61 Exmouth Market EC1R 4QL Map Average Lunch Price: £9 Rating: 9.5 out of 10 Some months back the entertainment section of Crumbs for Men magazine featured a rave …
A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 36. Marble Arch Underpass Where? It’s an underpass. It passes under Marble Arch. Like, dur. What? This haphazard collection of tunnels was constructed in the early 1960s, to improve pedestrian access to Hyde Park. Ha! It’s …
The Save Sloane Square campaign has apparently Saved Sloane Square. Backed by Knightsbridge celebrities, the campaigners opposed plans by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to turn the area into a busy crossroads. Despite the uber-posh location outside the often jammed tube station, the …
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