Look Out For ‘Word In Motion’ on London Underground
20-second-typographic-films to cheer up your commute
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The Origins Of London Tube Names
Guess the Tube station from its etymology.
The London Word Festival Has Begun
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.
Lit Preview: London Word Festival 2011
The London Word Festival returns! With excellent guests (Alan Moore, anyone?), inventive and immersive performances, witty and intelligent ideas, and a Scrabble tournament.
London Word Festival @ Barbican Late
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 …
London Word Festival: Shad Thames @ Jamboree
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 …
Lit Preview: Tall Tales @ The Good Ship
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 …
Preview: Align @ Bridewell Theatre
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 …
Lit Preview: A.L. Kennedy @ Roundhouse
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 …
London Word Festival: Shakespeare in Shoreditch in Pictures
South of the Border was packed to the rafters for Shakespeare in Shoreditch last night. Read more about it on the London Word Festival website as, temporarily, we’re out of words. Enjoy the pictures of the Bardic performers instead. We’re off to Bardens Boudoir tonight …
London Word Festival’s Evening with Phill Jupitus and Tim Wells
East London. 2009. A cold monday night. Ian Dury and the Blockheads’ often overlooked classic: ‘Fuck You Noddy’ plays scratchily on a record player and stutters to an end. A portly middle-aged man in a trilby reaches over from his battered easy chair and puts …
