Words

The late great Douglas Adams once wrote: It is no coincidence that in no known language of the galaxy does there exist the expression ‘as beautiful as an airport’. Words of wisdom, indeed. However, in a few years’ time, this once-universal truth could be fundamentally …

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When Londonist heard that Chris Roberts, the man behind the excellent Heavy Words Lightly Thrown (the hidden meanings behind nursery rhymes), had written a book on London’s Bridges we knew we had to get in touch and force him to complete the Londonist questionnaire. So …

Guy Ritchie’s new film Revolver isn’t out until next Thursday (the 22nd), but there’s been so much talk about it (the critical savaging in Toronto, the outrage over the posters etc) that we couldn’t resist taking a peek at Pete Bradshaw’s review in today’s Guardian …

Why is there so much evil in the world? It’s at times like this that Londonist wishes one of its posting categories was “Examples of unforgivable stupidity”. The idea was pointless enough in the first place: to immortalise UK and Commonwealth stars in a “Hollywood-style …

Someone was obviously having a laugh this week. Some record industry mogul says, “Hmmm, it’s Londonist Pop’s turn to do the reviews this week. Why don’t we release albums by Foo Fighters, Funeral For A Friend and Nine Black Alps? That’ll learn him for not …

If you’ve got access to BBC4, don’t forget that the serialisation of Patrick Hamilton’s Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky trilogy starts tomorrow at 9:50pm. Hamilton’s book is one of those definitive London novels (Nick Hornby once said of it: “it’s as if they’ve finally …