Existential crises seems to be a common theme for various London spots at the moment. With Tower Hamlets calling for Shoreditch station to be renamed Banglatown, Brent Council has decided to get in on the act: they’re considering rebranding themselves as Wembley Council. With the …
London has been awash with modern Colombian art over the past year. Doris Salcedo’s Tate crack (and accompanying White Cube retrospective) were followed by Once More With Feeling at the Photographer’s Gallery, which wrapped up last week. One of the contributors to that exhibition, Oscar …
Every so often we take a more indepth look at clubnights round London that peak our interest. This week it’s Beat Poetry, an ecletic funky night which moved from Brixton to Spitalfields earlier this year. If you like the sound of it, the next installment …
Soho East. That’s surely what Shoreditch has become. The Forster Gallery is one of the new breed of expensive gallery you’d normally expect to see in Mayfair, yet set in the (Nathan) Barley fields of Shoreditch. It’s similar to Eyestorm in that it goes for …
A sobering image for a sunny Thursday courtesy of Mr_ina via the Londonist Flickr pool.
With multi-venue neighbourhood crawls fastly becoming the favoured method of throwing a festival in the city, new ones are springing up all the time. This past weekend the Dot To Dot Festival took the focus away from the capital and into the clubs of Bristol …
2008 is shaping up to be the year that street art went truly mainstream in London. Currently, you can see Banksy at Selfridges, a half-mile tunnel of talent in Waterloo and, for the eagle-eyed, that subtle bit of wall painting at the Tate Modern. Street …
Sure, you’re hungover, quite possibly bloated, and probably rather haggard, but the fun of the Bank Holiday weekend doesn’t have to stop there! We’ve got a great line-up of activities all week long to fuel you through your blissfully short four-day workweek. Monday: Forecast says …
Would Shoreditch still be the hip, trendy place it’s purported to be if it were given a more ethnic name? The high street itself is in no danger, but a proposal has been put forward for a name change to the station for when it …
If you happened to miss both the Camden Crawl as well as the Stag and Dagger, all hope is not yet lost for you catching an urban festival this season. This weekend the Dot To Dot festival runs through Bristol and Nottingham, but organisers are …
Lovvers at Stag and Dagger The inaugural Stag and Dagger took place last night around Shoreditch, bringing out artists, film makers, and tons of bands. Londonist took on the challenge of trying to determine just how much we could pack into a six hour space. …
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