Well, that mostly wraps things up for Londonist in ’06. From Friday until something like the 3rd January, we’ll be on our seasonal hols, relaxing, drinking lots of whisky and not thinking about the quirks of London life in any way. Whatsoever. Oh, who are …
Ticket from Toronto: £299. Getting your song chosen for a Mastercard ad: Priceless. Last Thursday Findlay Brown, whose song Come Home is currently playing to millions of TV viewers daily in the Christmas Mastercard advert, joined a folksy line-up of four artists in the space …
This Day In London’s History 1911: Prolific film director Val Guest is born in Maida Vale. Although probably most renowned for directing (and co-writing) sci-fi classics The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass II in the mid 1950s, the cinematic career of the man who was born …
On Monday Charlie Brooker wrote a heart-felt piece for Comment is Free entitled When it comes to psychics, my stance is hardcore: they must die alone in windowless cells: The audiences that psychics prey on are equally infuriating, albeit less deserving of contempt. They’re just …
London’s theatre museum may be closed packed up and moved to Blackpool! Travel on the Northern, Jubilee or Piccadilly lines? Prepare for dirt! Your tube cleaners might be getting sacked. ‘Left Behind: Eternal’ – a new video game which sees depicts a crusade of violence …
Tomma Abts has become the first female painter to win the £25,000 Turner Prize. She was awarded the prize last night by Yoko Ono in a ceremony held at Tate Britain. The run-up to the event was dogged with the usual controversy – the Stuckists …
As regular readers of Londonist know, we’ve got a fairly strong nerd contingent; comes with the blogging territory, really. So did you really think we’d stay away from Video Games Live, which took place at the Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday night? Bit of a no-brainer. …
After all the worry over bird-flu, environmental disaster and nuclear attack it’s good to know that the UK’s early warning system for just such a catastrophe works well. The threat of a tribute concert to Diana – Princess of Skiing Holidays is still in the …
This week – The suicide of TV’s original Superman, George Reeves, in 1959 (Hollywoodland) and Tenacious D go on a quest to find a plectrum made from Satan’s tooth, (Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny). Usually on Saturday Cinema Summary we summarize and synthesize …
The epic new Bloc Party single is out there on the internet. It’s called The Prayer and it’s the first single from February’s A Weekend In The City. We are glad to have heard it because we were quite frankly more than a little worried …
You pop in to see a neighbour to drop off some disposable polystyrene food trays (the kind divided into sections as if for TV dinners), you stay for coffee and a chat… then somehow the coffee becomes a beaker of Scotch, you sing three classic …
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