Words

Words to aid your memory.

20-second-typographic-films to cheer up your commute

Guess the Tube station from its etymology.

If you missed our preview in which we prized this word based alternative arts fest above ring tailed lemurs and cake, this will get you up to speed.

The London Word Festival returns! With excellent guests (Alan Moore, anyone?), inventive and immersive performances, witty and intelligent ideas, and a Scrabble tournament.

Ron Arad’s SMS chandelier The London Word Festival draws to a fabulously fun close on Thursday, co-hosting Play on Words Late in the Barbican Art Gallery. If you haven’t made it to any of the Festival’s wonderfully eclectic words in performance type events then don’t …

Shad Thames by RobC’ham A friend of ours has an iPhone app which locates him by GPS then populates a Google Map with layers of local activities: restaurant reviews, what’s on listings, even the just-had-a-biscuit updates of tweeters in the area. Chris McCabe takes a …

The bloke behind the alternative universe football, family and friends novel Kilburn Social Club is putting on a show. Them that know say it will be ace and you are guaranteed sexy mermaids knowledge. So here’s the skinny: Tall Tales at The Good Ship in …

Next Friday The Bridewell Theatre invites you to a witness a psychogeographical tour through London, in a show which seeks to unearth the secrets hidden beneath its urban underskirts that the creators have furtled through the city for and kindly brought together in Align, to …

A.L. Kennedy (or Alison Louise if we’re not going to be all formal about it) is not only the author of a series of astonishing novels and short stories – including the Costa prize winning Day – but is also a stand up comedian. She …