‘If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?’, and ‘Where has all my money gone’ are two of the imponderables listed on the Any Questions Answered text service’s website as favourites. In the latter case, the wonga may well …
Would you like to see the Queen gagged and blindfolded? If monarchy muzzling is one’s thing, one should really get oneself to Barbican Art Gallery. There, in homage to Liz’s Silver Jubilee and the 30th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ romp down the river playing …
. As part of Free Range 2007, Londonist will be catching up with a different artist each week of the exhibition. Opening week gets of to a flying start with Alex Brown from Goldsmiths university. What can people expect from your art work? The ‘rural …
If you’ve ever taken a river taxi or party boat you’d probably like to think you’re in as safe hands as you were boarding a 747. Today the Transport Select Committee urged that the current Boatmaster’s Licence held by captains of such vehicles be suspended …
No, this is not a Touch Up London entry involving a giant root vegetable or a cross-looking Stefan Edberg (whimper). The magnificent Swede in question is the rather stunning Götheborg, a full-scale replica of an 18th century merchant trading ship that this weekend popped to …
File this one under ‘what the f*ck’. Hello. Please introduce yourselves, and your cause. We’re the London Urban Ironing Collective. Our parents were diagnosed with Cancer in December 2006, so we decided to raise money for Cancer Research UK using the medium of ironing. We’re …
While Kingston has been preoccupied with what photo display it should have in its new surgical centre, more redecorating has taken place in the capital, this time in Wembley Stadium where the chairs needed some new covers to fit the rest of the colour scheme. …
Tonight at Plastic People the creator of what is easily this year’s best techno album makes his live UK debut. The Field (Stockholm’s Axel Willner) will turn Shoreditch sublime with help from Kompakt labelmate Tobias Thomas (appearing in support of his new mix CD “Please …
The BBC informs us that police will now be available round the clock in west London. To tell you the truth, we had assumed they already were available round the clock. But apparently not. That explains why there’s that answering machine message we keep getting …
Same as the old Wembley? Several bloggers were fortunate enough to be among the 60,000 Brent residents to be invited to the first public event at the new stadium and their first impressions sound a strangely familiar note. Rascal Houdi on The National Midday Sun …
Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it’s taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon …
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