If you were inspired by yesterday’s interview with competitor Olivia Brown, you might want to go along to this weekend’s Winter Swimming Championship at the Tooting Bec Lido, the largest fresh water swimming pool in Europe, to find out more about the joys of an …
When our exclusive email interview with Middlesex and Ireland batsman Eoin Morgan arrived in our inbox late on Friday we were sorely tempted to post it there and then given Ireland’s spectacular tie with Zimbabwe the previous day, but we reluctantly decided to hang on …
Childrens’ literature is big business at the moment and currently, everyone has a reading age of about 12. But while Harry Potter, Alex Ryder, the Series of Unfortunate Events and His Dark Materials are seeing us through long train journeys and creating amusing scenarios in …
Time Out have announced the details of their ‘London on Screen’ season designed to celebrate “the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades”: The streets, buildings and monuments of our city appear regularly in films from around the world, from big-budget Hollywood …
We had a schedule for last weekend, a full to bursting at the seams schedule that would guarantee a very fulfilling Culture Crawl for whoever dared to undertake it. Londonist attempted to Do It All – and these pictures are evidence that it is possible …
On Saturday, the Royal Court had already taken over their own building with performances and decided that they would send some of it over the road and out into the open air – Sloane Square to be precise – to complete their domination of the …
Friday: Raucous angular noise makers The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club who are neither Victorian, nor English (they’re Welsh), nor Gentlemen (two of the guys are girls), but apart from that the name fits, play the 333 Club (333 Old Street) with Performance. Sunday: If The …
Well, not really. Yes, the headlines look good but the details don’t really support the hype. “The inexorable rise of blogging has been officially acknowledged by the Association of Online Publishers, which for the first time is including blogs in its annual awards.” says Brand …
Well, well, well – and other such watery puns – it looks like the Mayor’s forthcoming water conservation campaign has received some unusual support. Performance artist Mark McGowan has ‘created’ a challenging piece of work to help promote the cause. His finely crafted ‘The Running …
Question: which major worldwide brand opened a flagship store in central London this month? Answer: Adidas. Maybe not the best scheduling decision the world has ever seen. After all, we don’t recall seeing people queueing days in advance just to catch a glimpse of David …
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