Since 22 February, the Barbican Art Gallery has been home to the tiny models of buildings, pictures of buildings, drawings of buildings and, last but not least, things to decorate the interior of buildings. The topic of this architecture-filled exhibition is Alvar Aalto Through The …
LondonRemembers has turned plaque-tracking into something of an extreme sport. Its mission is to hunt down and record every plaque, memorial and dedication in London. Each entry is mapped, and includes photos and biographical notes. It’s a godsend for local historians, genealogists and anyone who …
Nude pictures of Kate Moss are to be auctioned in London. But a word of advice, they’ll cost you nearly £30,000 and remember, you don’t get much Moss for your money. 203,000 have registered for Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium. That’s 203,000 people willing …
Maybe because it is Friday afternoon and we swtiched off the hard working part of our brains (the Captain’s Log for this particular Londonista has been showing “Offline” since Wednesday lunch time) but we thought we would share this WTF gem with you all as …
Put your hand up if you like cartoons. Put your hand up if you experience a surge of happy childhood memories whenever you hear the famous Looney Tunes intro music. Put your hand up if you felt particularly cool and sophisticated while watching a Japanese …
In this new late-licence era, it is no longer the final chime of midnight that signals clocking off time for magic and wonder: more often than not, it is 3am when the carriage turns into a pumpkin, the beautiful gown turns into a ragged velour …
We’ve all had our run-ins with Oyster. When it works, it works well. But sometimes it sucks like a felating limpit. That’s why Ben Jarvis and Tim Crook have launched badoyster, a company that makes satirical wallets for the maligned card. Commuters don’t just want …
The Optronica festival took place last week, and Londonist was lucky enough to get tickets for the sold-out session on Friday evening at the BFI IMAX, where we were treated to video mash-ups by festival programmers Addictive TV, and a reactive retelling of Peter Greenaway’s …
Sticking with the Westminster theme, reader Andy Fisher sent in this image of Big Ben after an over-winding. It’d never happen. Keep sending in your pictures of reimagined London to londonist – at – gmail – dot – com
Try as we might most of our friends don’t seem to appreciate the fact that we have Tuesdays off and might actually want to do something on Monday night. The fact that you’ll only have 4 hours sleep really isn’t a concern of ours, we …
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