Most Londoners (well, most Londonistas anyway) have a considered and careful plan of where to go if the city was taken over by zombies. Zombies move slowly, frequently bump into things and aren’t fussy about traffic; if the day of the dead really did spring …
There is exactly one month to go before London finds itself filled to the brim with heaving, huffing and puffing runners all trying to clock 10km for the Nike 10km Run. The three simultaneous 10km runs in Battersea Park, Hyde Park and Victoria Park on …
My my, those red adverts are just about everywhere now aren’t they? Staring up at you from your copy of the Metro, in your face on the tube platform and frenetically tapping away at your subconscious as they roll past you on the side of …
You are standing on the Central Line platform at Tottenham Court Road after spending the last five hours making an outstanding contribution to Britain’s binge drinking crisis. You are trying to coax your booze-addled brain into working out where you can purchase some fags from, …
This weekend see the start of another ‘popular culture’ exhibition at the Proud Gallery in Camden (the other one is on the Strand). Sometimes the Proud’s exhibition schedule can maybe look a little ‘fluffy’ against some of the capital’s more heavyweight contenders. But popular culture …
We like thinking of alternative worlds here at Londonist – it kills time while we wait for the Zappa on Zappa tickets to go on sale. We’ve done the ‘if Hitler won the war’ (great transport system – lousy foreign policy) and ‘if Tony Blair …
‘It’s National Vegetarian Week’ we said. ‘Eat a banana’ we said. Do you listen? Do you bugger. And what do you do instead? You go and eat squirrels… Well not all of you… but someone’s been nibbling at Tufty and his pals at Sir Terence …
Book designer Jim Green is currently training for the Flora London Marathon, and is raising money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at the same time. We’re also going to make him wear a sticker with the Londonist logo on it, and as far as …
If you need a break from all that US election coverage (or you just feel like diverting your thoughts away from the fact that GWB might have actually won again) then let us present you with some mindless consumerism news. The Hideout on Upper James …
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