Seems the Camden Fringe didn’t make James Mason give up comedy nor did it discourage Stuart Laws from ploughing his perverse furrow to amuse as Unweaving Rainbows is back in NW1 on Saturday 6th November. We said we’d like to see more so we feel …
Out with the old, in with the new: Clapham Junction to get new residential towers, new train station entrance, new ticket hall, new escalators, and revamped shopping centre (not a new one? way to ruin the theme, developers). Recently rechristened Old Hoxditch to get its …
Pete Doherty wants to run the London marathon. We’re sure many people will sneer at this idea, what with Pete’s history of performance restricting drugs, his post-rehab bloatedness, and his jaunty hat, which will have to be held on with an elastic strap if he …
No matter what your opinion of the 2012 olympics, we’re now all helpless to stop it and we won’t be able to get away from it for five years so in a Stockholm Syndrome-like way we should all come to love our captors and get …
Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don’t let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things …
You Know I’m No Good. Amy Winehouse is a girl who makes us squeal out loud. When she released her first album, we foolishly dismissed her as nu-jazz and threw her into a skip with Katie Melua. Now as she crawls round London drunk unafraid …
In case you missed it earlier: The Met have pleaded not guilty to health and safety charges relating to the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. It’s a ‘test case’ apparently. Police patrols at churches and mosques in London have been stepped up following the …
Greek police are in town today talking to Scotland Yard about London’s role as a hub for antique traffickers. The restored Lifeboat Pier station on Victoria Embankment will be officially opened today to mark the start of London Lifeboat Week. The Saturday late start for …
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As Pete Doherty was driving round London after another successful stint in rehab, Londonist was having some substance free fun of it’s own; although we were eyeing up one of the Luminaire’s shooters – the Jim Morrison: Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and Wild Turkey, mmmm…smokey! …
Everyone has fond memories of Hi De Hi. Londonist used to watch, mouth agape, dumbfounded by the idea that anyone would consider enforced jollity and strictly regimented ‘fun’ to be their idea of a good holiday. The best thing about Hi De Hi was how …
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