Andrew Lloyd Webber has been looking for just the right actress to play Maria in a new stage version of The Sound of Music for over four years now. Searching high and low, hither and thither (even offering the role to Scarlett Johansson – a …
Catching up with the battle of the Davids is always fun. We don’t follow it daily because it’s just not that interesting, but about once a week we like to dip into the battleground of the Tory leadership like hungry crows looking for a juicy …
Oh dear. Louis Walsh has quit X Factor after Simon was mean to him. Simon called him “stupid” and “an idiot” and a divvy and said he smelled and said his mum worked in McDonald’s and he bought his clothes in Oxfam … Is it …
What are the Royal Family for? As an anachronistic reminder of our forelock-tugging, hierarchy-beholden, deferential past, they’re about as welcome in modern Britain as the sticky can of Stella you find hiding behind the sofa six months after the party. The sticky can of Stella …
How the mighty have fallen. Once the scourge of Time Lords, Thals, Roy Castle and Bernard Cribbins the mighty Daleks seem to have fallen on hard times. Of course the new generation of angry pepperpots are doing pretty well in a touchy feely/addicted to reality …
Over the next few weeks, as a little experiment, Londonist is going to start posting over the weekend. It’s not like we have a life outside this website or anything, so it seems a shame to waste two days out of every seven sitting around …
Before we get onto the subject of this week’s telly recommendations, let’s remind ourselves of Saturday’s miscarriage of justice, when Maria was voted off X Factor. Even Simon admits he made a mistake in choosing the Conway Sisters (for those who don’t watch X Factor, …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Hello? Publishing World? Did you go on a collective vacation this week? Did all of your printers go on strike at the same time? Did …
If ever there was an excuse to buy a new TV for the wife/partner/dog this Christmas then here it is. The BBC has announced it is to begin to test High Definition TV on digital terrestrial TV in London in the next few months. For …
Discovering KEXP last year was like discovering Back In Black, for me the album that pretty much cemented everything I’ll love about music for the rest of my life. Suddenly there was this doorway to a magical world where DJs played whatever they wanted and …
It’s that funny time of year again – not quite autumn, not quite winter, with the shittier aspects of both and the advantages of neither, weather-wise at least. Like walking past a stadium and hearing the distant dischord of a Phil Collins concert, the horror …
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