When workers discovered a hand grenade behind a Shoreditch fire hydrant, they wisely called the authorities. Fearing more than just flesh wounds if the thing went off, bomb disposal experts spent an hour analysing the situation before realising that it was, in fact, a replica …
South of the Border was packed to the rafters for Shakespeare in Shoreditch last night. Read more about it on the London Word Festival website as, temporarily, we’re out of words. Enjoy the pictures of the Bardic performers instead. We’re off to Bardens Boudoir tonight …
Great Eastern Street’s luxury hotel The Hoxton today celebrates one of it’s famous £1 sales. The idea is simple – 500 bedrooms will be dramatically reduced to 100 pence at 12 noon and we have to battle with each other to arrive on the website …
We first spotted this fruity obsession back in June, and we’re pleased to see it graduate to an exhibition of true London randomness, London Banana: A show of 1000 portraits of banana skins discarded in London’s urban environment. The project www.londonbananas.com has documented nearly 2,000 …
Write Everywhere by Slaminsky. Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.
Photo site Someone Once Told Me, the brainchild of journalist Mario Cacciottolo, has been catching the attention of many a curious Londoner as well as web-savvy folks and photography fans from around the world. The Guardian, described it as: “Whether it was a text message …
With last night’s packed private view opening of Stay Free at the cavernous Tramshed (6-8 Garden Walk, EC2A 3EQ), a Victorian Grade II listed building in Shoreditch, prolific street artist Sickboy stepped up to the challenge of wowing London’s jaded art mob with his first …
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
Mini music festivals – you’ve got to love them, haven’t you? Queuing up for two hours to get into an infamous London sweatbox only to get to the front of the line where you’re overtaken by a 21-year old PR mogul with a VIP wristband …
Oh Sherry, there’s no reason to be all alone anymore! “Culinary alchemist” Heston Blumenthal (of Fat Duck fame), with scientist Professor Don Mottram of Reading University, has discovered a group of compounds known as diketopiperazines (try saying that drunk without offending someone) in Sherry. Apparently, …
Last week we told you all about the London Airwaves festival taking over Hoxton on Friday night. With bands like Florence & The Machine, The Whip, The Teenagers and Metronomy all on the bill we think it’ll be a pretty amazing night out. So we’re …
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