Neil Young – Prairie Wind As prodigious as he is unpredictable (this after all is a man whose record company once sued him for not sounding like himself), Neil Young‘s 41st solo record, just shy of his 60th birthday and recovering from an aneurysm that …
The cricket season is pretty much over and winter will soon to be sending a nasty chill around your nether regions. That means no more staggering through Regents Park, pint in hand, watching the cricket, dressed in shorts and not much else until the beginning …
Just what is going on today? First there’s tales of cursed gemstones taking up residence in the Natural History Museum, then we here that a sword factory in west London is closing down and then we discovered the rather alarming fact that we’re being overrun …
It remains unshakable, confident, sprawling, determined. There is a spirit and a soul here not found in other places, a remarkable spirit that makes London so special and civilized, even when things go terribly wrong like yesterday. Bertis Downs, occasionally known as the fourth member …
Well. This was meant to be a celebratory photothread yesterday cataloguing London bloggers’ reactions to the Olympic decision. (If you don’t want to know the result, look away now: we got it.) But, of course, the Britblogosphere barely had time to pop the champagne before …
Londonist busies itself with plenty of art, music, film and theatre trips, but rarely do we venture into the world of science. To correct this oversight we strode purposefully into the marbled halls of the Royal Society last night for its annual Summer Science Exhibition. …
Another success story… Remember we mentioned the rather groovy PledgeBank a little while ago? Well we just found out that this pledge: I will help start the London Association of Chicken Keepers but only if 10 other people in Britain will say they’re interested in …
The Londonist Blog Roundup has made it into its second week, which means it has already doubled the length of its anticipated run. The first rule is that there are no rules. The second rule is never talk about Blog Roundup. The third rule is …
Sandy Pearlman – Purcell Room, South Bank Centre – 23rd June Sandy Pearlman’s CV affords him a certain authority when he speaks about his vision of the future state of the music industry. A producer and songwriter of some note, he worked with Blue Oyster …
In order to walk the walk as well as talk the talk, Londonist took its own advice and spent much of the hottest June day since 1976 standing in a tunnel in Rotherhithe. The tunnel in question is of course Brunel’s Thames Tunnel, the earliest …
We saw this over on Boing Boing and thought we should share it. PledgeBank is a simple idea for people who want to achieve something, but are worried that it’s too big a job to tackle solo. Say you want to get a group of …
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