When it comes to Georgian house museums, London already has a lovely bunch of coconuts. Dickens, Johnson, John Soane and Handel have all opened up their abodes to us (as well as Jimi Hendrix who, rather improbably, was a latter-day ‘flatmate’ of Handel’s). On February …
Best use bluetac and not drawing pins to stick it up then. An original poster for Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction film Metropolis has sold for a world record price of $690,000 That beats the price paid for The Mummy poster (watched that again recently …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Ice Skating at the Natural History Museum Ice skating? Ice skating? By the beard of Copernicus …
Anyone who’s been to a gig or club night in the last, say, hundred years or so, will have run the gauntlet of pastry faced youngsters thrusting Giant Oaks worth of tatty bits of paper into your hands. Some will be badly written, badly printed, …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Tomorrow’s Tower Blocks: the Dana Centre Here’s a strange thought. Many Londoners can recall a time, …
Big Brother graduate Lesley Sanderson – last seen threatening to unleash a music career on an innocent world, and singing in Roberto’s bar to a distinctly unimpressed clientele – has had a very rough time of it recently. First, the poor girl was allegedly raped …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us at LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week More Chocology at the Royal Institution Event of the Week, clearly, should be Londonist’s First Birthday …
Something we didn’t have the time to comment on yesterday was the interview with Kate Hoey which appeared in Sunday’s Observer. Kate‘s been in the news a lot recently. Back in the summer her and her Lambeth council cohorts deprived London’s inhabitants of a riverside …
It’s that funny time of year again – not quite autumn, not quite winter, with the shittier aspects of both and the advantages of neither, weather-wise at least. Like walking past a stadium and hearing the distant dischord of a Phil Collins concert, the horror …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com STOP PRESS: The Royal Institution have kindly offered free entry to Londonist readers for tonight’s (Thursday 27th) Headline Debate (see …
These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on londonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Beyond the Human Genome Project: Medicine in the 21st Century James Joyce once said of his …
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