Thanks to the excellent Rat & Mouse blog for pointing us in the direction of this story on Damon Dash being evicted from his “Chelsea mansion”. We’re going to risk damaging our hip hop credentials and admit that we didn’t even know the “music mogul” …
London’s theatre land area is to get a makeover courtesy of a £6 million pound cash injection, the first 1.8 million of which “has been raised from Transport for London, Westminster council, the Cross-River Partnership and theatres themselves“. The scheme has plans to widen the …
It’s been a while since we had a bit of outrageous property price news on Londonist, so where better to go for the latest bit of real estate ridiculousness than leafy Hampstead. The Hampstead and Highgate Express is reporting today that a studio flat in …
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. …
Yesterday was day three of Capital FM’s ‘Live by the Book‘ torture regime, whereby two members of the public are placed in Perspex boxes in Covent Garden and are given daily tasks by Johnny Vaughan. And the news from yesterday is: Jess has eaten some …
London has more corners, and secrets, than anyone could imagine; every now and then, visionaries latch onto one neglected aspect of it and bring it to general attention, in the process transforming our view of the city we thought we knew so well. Of late, …
Call us cynical, but when we read that London Zoo was claiming to have bred a Panay cloud rat, our first thought was “Wow, they must be getting really desperate if they’re making animals up now.” After all ‘cloud rat’ sounds too much like a …
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