Today is the ‘birthday’ of London’s most famous, fictitious detective and the most celebrated resident of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes. The New York Sun seems to be the only paper celebrating the anniversary with this article on the Baker Street Irregulars (the contemporary society not …
Well, everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we? Here we present Londonist’s favourite music of 2004, along with pointers to other sites’ lists. It might be worth bearing in mind if you’re brave enough to visit the shops during the January Sales melee. …
Londonist TV Critic Mecca Ibrahim is (believe it or not) more well known for her book: One Stop Short of Barking: Uncovering the London Underground. And because of her tubey background Mecca was recently contacted by the BBC to try a dangerous mission little experiment: …
There’s no denying it: Radio 4 is great. No, we don’t listen to the Archers (yet), and we’re not quite at the Book at Bedtime stage either, but we should all offer up a prayer of thanks to the BBC directors for organising their latest …
If you’ve failed to get tickets for either Shellac at the Scala or And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead at ULU tonight, then can Londonist suggest you take your good self down to the Solid Steel club night at Ruby Lo …
Bush. Kerry. Chads. Ohio. Yes, we admit it, Londonist is as excited as everyone else is about tonight’s US elections. We’ll be watching it on the good, old BBC (11:50 through to 5:00 with Dimbleby, Snow and Simpson et al) but there are events taking …
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