“Hey man, check out the massive lion statue. I bet you could make a really wicked bong out of that.” The annual pro-cannabis rally which normally takes place in Brockwell park has found itself a much more prominent location for 2005′s event, taking place this …
It’s a struggle but Londonist must occasionally provide the odd Pete Doherty story… Model-mating tabloid-baiting Pete Doherty is reported by the NME to be confirmed for the Love Music Hate Racism gig this Sunday (1st May). According to BabyShambles.net, he’s playing an acoustic set sometime …
If you don’t ‘take’ the Observer on a Sunday then you might have missed this article by Miranda Sawyer in the paper’s Sunday magazine. The piece was written to mark the twenty-year anniversary of the death of photojournalist David Hodge, who was fatally injured during …
Face it, it’s what London is missing. Ever since the dawn of the new millennium the capital city has been crying out for some sort of overblown countdown ceremony…thank God then for the Olympic bid. As it stands there are 75 days left until the …
Ok, so Google has its big, flashy maps now, with all the zoom you could want and that fantastic slide bar thingy on the side. But it only works for North America. What about us? Don’t they know that British steets are much harder to …
Lucian Freud’s newest work The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer is unveiled today at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The question on everyone’s minds is “Who is the girl?” The self-portrait depicts Freud in his studio with a young nude woman clutched …
Every few months you can rely on a ‘bird’ story appearing somewhere in the London press. This time it’s those precious ravens over at the Tower again. According to this report the sacred birds have been coming “under attack” from flocks of crows who “swoop …
Last week the figures on the capital’s most dangerous bus routes were announced. One of the worst routes for thefts and robberies was the number 29 which runs between Trafalgar Square and Palmers Green. But from next week TfL are looking to improve the situation …
It’s time for the ugly issue of pedestrianisation to rear its ugly head once more. Remember the furore surrounding the Public Spaces Report and the report in the Independent that Ken was set on pedestrianising “significant portions of the city centre in a ten year …
Yes, that’s right, today Australia is coming to Trafalgar Square in the shape of a lager-sponsored artifical beach! It doesn’t get any more fun that that kids. Because 26 January is Australia Day, (when Australians “come together as a nation to celebrate what’s great about …
Well if the Russian Winter Festival in Trafalgar Square on Saturday tought us anything it’s that maybe Trafalgar Square really isn’t big enough to cater for anything which may attract more people than Ken Livingstone and his immediate family. OK, so we’re exaggerating slightly, but …
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