Rumours are flying that veteran film director and naff commercial starlet Michael Winner may have to have a leg removed, and might even die, after picking up a mystery ailment in Barbados. Let’s hope he had good insurance cover. Winner, 71, is being treated at …
Burlesque is a big hit and has been infiltrating the London club scene over the last two years. Though it may seem inappropriate to call something that revels in quaint antiquity as “New Wave” it is indeed New Wave Burlesque that we are enjoying at …
Around 3,000 dwarves, elves, heroes and young female warriors not wearing very much (all cunningly disguised as nerds) have been hanging around HMV on Oxford Street for a chance to bag an expansion pack called The Burning Crusade. The last time our expansion pack had …
We’ve been doing our best to ignore Celebrity Big Brother we really have. We close our eyes when walking past the tabloids and blank out any mention of the nonsense in the broadsheets, but now that questions are being asked about it in the House …
Back in November, we went down to Trafalgar Square to see comedian Tim Fitzhigham blow up the world’s largest ever man-inflated balloon to raise awareness about carbon emissions from aviation. It might be so 2006 now (“the environment? that was so last year”) but we …
Down in the midst of the Londonist music dungeon we’ve got our fair share of ideas as to which bands are going to be high up in our last.fm chart at the end of 2007. That said, we’ve not afraid to see what other people …
Well, the last London Flickr Scavenger Hunt back in October looked like a lot of fun. If you missed out last time or had so much fun you want to do it again, here is your chance: the 5th London Flickr Scavenger Hunt is due …
It was 9.30pm on Saturday night. It was dark, cold and there was rain and wind. One lonely Londonist contributor stood outside Covent Garden tube station, waiting for a delayed friend. Thank you Piccadilly line for not stopping at Kings Cross this weekend. No, really, …
Supermarket wars found a new battlefield today as Tesco vowed to build affordable homes for its employees: Tesco is set to build homes for its staff to combat the lack of affordable housing in London. The UK’s largest supermarket has allocated 13 to staff of …
More Russian intrigue in London as authorities in Moscow ask our police to have a good nose into the death of a Russian businessman: Authorities in Moscow plan to ask British police to ‘carefully look into all the circumstances of the death of Yury Golubev, …
Secret documents have revealed that we could have all be living in a France – UK union! A broken down lift in Leyton has left people stranded for 5 weeks. Two grafitti artists were killed on tube tracks on Friday. Has ice skating become your …
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