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Week Around the -ists

The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant – it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at …

Friday Film News

It’s not often you get a ‘Film of the Week’ article where the reviewer has given the picture a one star critque. But with Peter Bradshaw you can kind of understand the deicision. Bradshaw’s hatchet jobs are magnificent epics, kind of like John Ford’s The …

Friday Film News

This week, if you’re thinking of going to the pictures you’ve got a choice between a crazed asssassin in Washington, gun crime in Hackney…and Matthew McConaughey taking his shirt off in the desert. At least you can’t complain that the choice isn’t ‘varied’. So first …

The Oscars – Live From Londonist’s Settee

It’s easy for the Americans to blog the Oscars, they just get some drinks in, invite some friends round and make a night of it. And even the Guardian doesn’t have it so bad – ok so they have to stay up until the early …

Friday Film News

To be honest Londonist was worried that Team America: World Police wasn’t going to live up to expectations. The trailers looked great and the South Park pedigree was in place but the rumours from the US were that Parker and Stone weren’t really on top …