Billie Piper is all set to slip into Belle de Jour’s gusset! Here’s the scoop direct from the diary of a London call girl: Finally – it’s official – Billie’s on board, and you can expect to see Belle the series on ITV2 this autumn. …
Are the Greenpeace campaigners still aloft their erection near the Commons? Anyone got any pics? Once in position the activists unfurled a 50ft banner suggesting PM Tony Blair “loved” weapons of mass destruction. We’re not sure it is love as far as Tony is concerned. …
This week – David Lynch makes another film which makes everyone say “wha…?” (Inland Empire) and Eddie Murphy dons a fat suit and makes a racially insensitive film(Norbit). First up, Inland Empire. We’re not a huge fan of David Lynch here at Londonist. For a …
Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it’s taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon …
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The Guardian has explained that Pricewaterhouse Coopers has explained that London has the highest incomes of any city outside the United States. The 11 cities with the highest average income in the world are all American with London coming in at number 12. In fact, …
We do enjoy a good debate here at Londonist HQ so were pleased to be asked along to last night’s Guardian/BAFTA Film Forum entitled The Role of the Film Critic in the Digital Age: It is easy and inexpensive for anyone to set themselves up …
A guy attempts to drug his dinner date and is caught: in June last year when the head waiter saw Spall putting a pill in the red wine of his companion while she was in the toilet. Officers searched his pockets and found a blister …
A New Year, and new format for the Londonist Literary List… Fresh this Week: The first Anything but Hackneyed for 2007. Susan Elderkin, Betty Trask Award winner and one of Granta’s 20 best British novelists will be reading from her Odaantje nominated novel The Voices …
Here’s the latest news following the recent fatal shootings: Did 15-year-old Billy Cox die because of a text message? Sir Ian Blair will be meeting John Reid to discuss the shootings. Cameron reckons it’s down to the fathers and wants powers introduced to “compel” them …
York Way, that dusty street alongside King’s Cross, is abuzz with construction and redevelopment. Nowhere more so than Kings Place (they’re not big on apostrophes in these parts), next to the Regent’s Canal. Come 2008, and a new arts and music venue will be open …
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