Every year 30 000 souls descend upon the Black Rock desert to live outside the constraints of a commercial world and party their smalls off, climaxing in the burning of a 40 foot effigy. It is the Burning Man festival. Now the burning man ethos …
Screw dressing up as Santa this Christmas. If you’re looking for where the real money is and you’re not afraid of dressing up then you want to get yourself down to the Bob the Builder auditions taking place in a couple of weeks. According to …
Londonist is as addicted to buying DVDs as everyone else, so it made sense that we should start a regular column to highlight the little laser-etched treats coming your way over the next week or so. Let us know what you think in the comments. …
The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …
Yesterday’s Times offered us a fascinating insight into the world of a London postman. Being the Times, this was of course a day in the life of an Islington postie, but nevertheless we learned some interesting stuff: – The office manager of the sorting-hall behind …
Is it Christmas in London yet? It’s really hard to tell, what with traditional festive lights being replaced with a shameless movie promotion and a distinct lack of Santa Clauses. And we’re not the only ones that have noticed. James Lovell, director of “Crazee” PR …
Two pictures of Jesus in one day? You can tell it’s getting towards Christmas can’t you. Admittedly this isn’t something you’d send to your gran on a card for the festive season, not unless she’s really up for rallying “against the commercialisation of Christmas” It’s …
Today’s Sun carries an exclusive interview with Father Christmas, who tells of his “torment” at being banned from stores on Oxford Street. “I take this as an insult to me and children everywhere.” Santa tells the paper from his “secret Lapland retreat”. “It breaks my …
As you get older and you read more Naomi Klein books the whole commercialisation of Christmas thing seems to get more and more prominent (as opposed to when you’re a kid and it’s just the presents that matter…we’re completely over that whole present thing now…we …
Starbucks has announced that it plans to open four shops A DAY throughout 2005. Londonist nearly collapsed in horror before realising that this was worldwide, not in London. We spent a number of years working outside central London in the early 1990s and the return …
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