We get to see a lot of high quality performing arts in London, just by going outside and hanging around. The National Theatre is hosting another Watch This Space Festival with lots of free outdoor performances to stumble across as you wander along the Thameside …
We hope you’ve enjoyed these few comedy interviews and recommendations. This will be the last one for a while as this particular Londonista (and all the good comedians) relocates to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for August. But fear not, Londonist comedy coverage will resume with …
Update on that fire in Colindale. No reports of any casualties. Super Ken! Looks like our Mayor may soon become more powerful than ever before. Ruth Kelly is set to announce the enhanced package of powers today. And sticking with Ken, he wants to charge …
Interesting times these for London architecture. While eyes remain transfixed by Lord Richnorm Rogfoster’s kiss-my-glass office spaces, and ears prick at the frustrated shriek of a dozen would-be skyscrapers unable to move from blueprint to footprint, a quiet revolution seems to be going on at …
Anyone who’s ever tried to get round Tate Modern in a day with their visiting family in tow will know how stressful modern art can be. All that walking, the mental fatigue, the fights over the bench space… it’s a jungle out there! Thank the …
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 …
Proving that people may not know art but they know what they like the artists that spawned a thousand cheap motel prints, Turner Whistler and Monet are proving a draw of Beatle-esque proportions at the Tate Britain. The show has an aquatic theme with the …
They’ll be talking about this one for years to come. Yesterday a water main burst on Upper Street turning the streets in the area into what the Standard described as “a mini-Venice”. According to reports people were trapped inside restaurants, bars and shops as “gallons” …
Freeness looks to be Pop Idol minus everything but the music and with the added perk that the music is the artist’s own, not just covers – so actually, not Pop Idol at all, but keep reading anyway. Freeness is hitting Plastic People on Curtain …
A bit of a boring week for film reviews this week, with pretty much three stars across the board for every major release. The only thing that comes anywhere near ‘exciting’ is Peter Bradshaw’s four star review of The Merchant of Venice in the Guardian. …
Take that Paris. In your face Venice. Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough Rome. Because London is the new city of luuurve. According to a survey by Yahoo Personals, we go on more dates than anyone else in the UK; …
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