He is, you know Regular Londonistas may recall our coverage of the wit and wisdom of “Sarah, London”, the Mayor’s Number One Fan and official Best Friend FOREVAH! This week, she’s at it again, offering her thoughts on the plight of Soho businesses losing their …
Photo courtesy of Annie Mole via the Londonist Flickr Pool We have a crush; a haunting, inexplicable, impossible love. We shouldn’t, we know it’s wrong – we know that she’s wrong, about everything – but none the less we are but flotsam to the tides …
Thanks to a lousy US box office reception, Grindhouse – the adored bastard sprog double-feature of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez – was hacked in two when it finally came here. Film nerds agog at the prospect of a three-hour neo-exploitationfest had to cough for …
Jermyn Street Theatre is a tiny space. And when we say tiny, we mean tiny. We’d guess at 80-100 seats. And if you’re over 5ft 10, you can forget about leg room for the evening. Luckily, Opera on the Run’s delightfully light-hearted show, The Perfect …
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Coffee, Cake and Kink 61 Endell Street WC2H 9AJ Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road 0207 419 2996 11am-8pm for Lunch(Monday-Thursday) 11am-11pm (Friday-Saturday) Expect to Pay: around £7 for a huge …
One of the most thrilling aspects of live comedy is surely its intimacy. When you watch a big act in a small room, a charming comic can make you believe that they are there just for you, as if the jokes they tell were being …
2007 is quickly slipping away, and with it the few remaining book events for the year. As most of us are busy buying books for the bibliophiles on our shopping lists rather than reading or going to signings this week, we thought we’d present you …
The provocative title is not simply a cheap trick like putting “SEX!!!!1!” across the top of a flyer to catch people’s attention for carpet cleaning equipment. The One Night Stand With… series is quite literally one night with a specially commissioned artist at VINEspace, an …
The Olympic Park has received a lot of attention lately, unveiling its flagship stadium, promising to start work on it early and suffering fiery blazes which fortuitously destroyed a warehouse due for demolition. This Saturday though, an audaciously different kind of attention will be focused …
11. Spring Heeled Jack: A Chronicle of Chaos “But most of all did he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and mocked at him.” Beyond The Wall Of Sleep – H. P. Lovecraft Supernatural? Invader from space? Prankster? Hysteria? Spring Heeled …
Our first foray into the Camden Fringe was oddly reminiscent of our last Edinburgh experience. A rainy, busy street at 3pm in the afternoon, leading into a tiny, dark and terribly hot mini-theatre, beer in hand. If only there had been a street full of …
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