Google are probably the world’s most popular internet company. Until about 2007, that is, when the inevitable backlash gains momentum. But for the time being, they just can’t help themselves when it comes to launching genuinely useful, free software. Google Mail and Google Earth being …
Two men sitting in a Canary Wharf Starbucks were minding their own business, snogging each other, when some easily-amused girls (we know the type) decided it would be fun to bang on the windows of the Starbucks. The watchful Canary Wharf security guard decided to …
Yes, you read that sign correctly. ‘Shoot the Aged’. Erstwhile pine, and general bric-a-brac, merchants of Lee Road near Blackheath. Their genius strapline read ‘A non-charitable profit making organisation using non-voluntary staff’. Since this photo was taken in 1998, this treasure of individuality has no …
London is being steathily taken over by clones, a report has warned. Fortunately (or perhaps not), this has nothing to do with sinister children in gasmasks or the Corrs, and a lot to do with the increasingly homogenised nature of our high streets. The report, …
The music promoter Mean Fiddler is set to be taken over by Irish firm Gaiety Investments and American entertainment group Clear Channel. It’s a deal that still has to be approved by Mean Fiddler shareholders, but already Londonist has a bad taste in its mouth. …
The news today that the Corporation of London is rapidly running out of cash seems to effect a number of facets of London life. The swimming pools on Hampstead Heath for example. And then there’s the five City bridges, which are also run by the …
Londonist attended the theatre last night. We purchased a ticket for A Life in the Theatre a play written by David Mamet at the Apollo Theatre about a week ago. A Life in the Theatre tells the story of stage veteran Robert (Patrick Stewart) and …
People don’t need a reason to hate West London and in particular Notting Hill, but for some reason the creative community seem hell-bent on given them some. Not content with creating a film so bland and banal that it’s most iconic feature was a door …
Starbucks has announced that it plans to open four shops A DAY throughout 2005. Londonist nearly collapsed in horror before realising that this was worldwide, not in London. We spent a number of years working outside central London in the early 1990s and the return …
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