Not a huge amount to tell you about this week by way of releases. Not anything we think is worth bringing to your attention, anyway, so we’ll concentrate on the live scene. It seems that news of the tickets still going for the Tsunami Relief …
Everybody likes biscuits, maybe some people a little too much, but at least one biscuit company will have a dedicated exhibition about it at The Pumphouse Educational Museum in Rotherhithe, south-east London. Peek Frean and Co, a Bermondsey based biscuit company which closed down in …
The big release this week is raging smug-fest Oceans Twelve, a sequel to the remake of Oceans Eleven, and it’s not fairing well with the critics. Bradshaw in the Guardian maintains his always high standard of vitriol with probably the harshest line directed towards welsh …
Londonist went to the cinema over the weekend to see Garden State (which was very good we thought). During the pre-film adverts up popped this advert for Paul Smith’s new ‘fragrance’: London. The advert is apparently intended to “evoke the nostalgic 60s side of London…swinging, …
There’s a lot of miserable London stories around today: stuff like the Circle Line being voted the worst tube line, or the Met not meeting their repsonse time targets, or parts of Hyde Park closing due to an assault. So we thought we’d bring you …
Remember the world’s priciest truffle? If not, here’s a quick recap: it’s a fungus, it cost £28,000, it weighed 1.88lbs and was bought by Zafferano, an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge. And the latest news is…it’s dead. According to The Times the fungus may have been …
With the unnering foresight and keenness of judgment that has made it the magazine of choice for London’s city gents, the Economist has announced that “The London theatre increasingly turns to movie remakes”. This news will of course come as a complete shock to anyone …
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