Words

The River Lea, Bromley by Bow by ThePhotoSchool

The Friday Photos: Gas Holders

Industrial skeletons captured against changing London skies.

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London Puzzles: Nifty Mnemonics

Words to aid your memory.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

Shad Thames by RobC'ham via the Londonist Flickrpool

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …