Waterloo Road

Fishcotheque, Waterloo Road. More Grease than Saturday Night Fever.

The Great Londonist Pun Hunt: Part One

Where are London’s most punny shops? We asked you for the best examples of wordsmithery on the high street. Shops that give the pun back to the punters. Those outlets that would carry a plaque stating ‘By appointment to HRH Richard Whitely’, were the famous …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th July 1968: The Hayward art gallery on the South Bank is opened by the Queen. Tuesday – 10th July 1958: Britain’s first parking meters are installed in Mayfair. Soon there would be 625 of them in the …

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Hopkins Mouths Off

A lot of the news sites have recently run the story about Anthony Hopkins’ and his distaste for Hollywood cinema (if you haven’t seen it’s just A.H. getting upset that the country he now lives in has a tendency to produce mindless cinema and that …

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TV Troll: Married To Junk

Nature, red in tooth and claw. So there was some sort of nature programme that everyone and their spirit guide has been going on about (Planet Earth, Sun 9pm BBC1), which even we thought we’d better watch, although nature programmes have never been high on …