Tonight in Richmond, Portillo is bringing democracy to the people as he hosts an event modelled on the American primary in which three candidates will compete to become the Conservative Party’s parliamentary candidate for Richmond Park. The candidates will compete “in an X Factor-style contest”. …
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Who likes a good Anglo-Saxon helmet more than Londonist is a question we had no answer to… until now. It turns out that the one thing that MPs love more than preventing “foreigners” from “stealing our benefits” is tearing around the House of Commons in …
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 …
Today is Australia Day. Tonight there will be a huge amount of drunken Australians celebrating in this city. Here are three stereotypes about Australians living in London: 1. They see their homeland as some kind of utopia. If home is so perfect, then why are …
Tonight is the 10th birthday party for world-famous London clubnight Trash, and as mentioned a little while back, it’s to be its last. Tonight, Trash bows out after a decade. It seems fitting that after 10 years, we should seal the lid on something which …
A couple of weeks ago we told you about a new singer who is going to be B I G in 2007 : Mika. Tonight, he plays a gig at The Reindeer in The Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The Reindeer is a restaurant and …
The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight It isn’t Christmas without a Dickensian orphan boy made good, and here we have a discussion about the two greatest; Oliver Twist (did anyone …
Tonight is the night when the dreams of millions of video game fans come true – it’s the long awaited launch of the interesting named Nintendo Wii. We’ve not been keeping as up to date as we should on the Wii, probably because we’re surrounded …
There is almost nothing more upsetting than a life-size wax replica of a person. Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum, famous since the 19th century for its Chamber of Horrors, now features a life-size wax figure of Christina Aguilera. The songstress’s exhibit also features a karaoke-style microphone …
“Tonight is all about something that doesn’t happen enough these days – Musicians helping each other” announced Tom McRae last night as the Hotel Café tour rolled into London after a year long tour of the USA. The feeling was great: a series of artists …
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