July 4, 2008
- Eco-ravers will surely welcome the opening of an eco-club in Kings Cross: it is apparently to be dance powered. Groovy.
- Tourism New Zealand are to bring their giant rugby ball to London for the 2011 World Cup draw.
- A sixteen year old mega-drug dealer is to be jailed.
- Was the brutal killing of two French tourists all over a robbery?
- The Met are to establish a dedicated, 75 strong knife crime unit.
- Londoners are warned to be careful using the Parkland Walk in Crouch Hill: there’s potentially a serial robber skulking in the bushes.
Summer rain from Joffley’s flickr stream under the Creative Commons Licence. Have a dry weekend.
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July 4, 2008
Those people persevering with wordy email scams from Nigeria, involving "confidential business transactions" worth vast amounts of money, civil unrest and promises of mighty rewards for the simple act of paying their expenses really ought to take a leaf out of the audacious book of the fake Contessa de Aliva, one crafty Elda Beguinua of Dulwich. This charming lady defrauded major financial institutions and persuaded an entire retinue to wait on her before conning...
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If you're into anything dancy you'd be hard pushed to find a better night out than at Fabric. Tonight in the floor quivering Room 1 Drop The Lime drops in from Brooklyn to play along side Switch & The Scratch Perverts while over in room 2 Australian drum and bass chart invaders, Pendulum, headline with support from the likes of Goldie. It's room 3 we're most excited about though as it celebrates the release of Mary Ann Hobbs latest album, with the great lady herself headlining. Tickets.
Crayolas, set squares and glue-on sparkles to the ready: a competition has just been launched to design the next generation of Routemaster buses. Voters will of course recall that the much-loved bus was a key plank of Boris Johnson's manifesto, as he tempted bendy-bus loathers by claiming the articulated eyesores would be banished from our streets in favour of a new fleet of Routemasters. Yet during his first two months in office the topic...
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Good films are arty, beautiful, moving, life-affirming, harrowing, immersive, thought-provoking, influential, idiom-altering. Bad films are just plain good fun. While there are countless film clubs screening the good stuff, and discussing such weighty things as symbolism, cinematography and ludic interfilmic references afterwards over a G&T, there is only one Bad Film Club, dedicated to celebrating the very worst that the moving picture has to offer. In a treat for Londoners with a taste for masochism and celluloid disasters, BFC is bringing its live-action extravagagagaganza to the Barbican tomorrow (5th July), starting at 3.30pm with a Bad Film Bake-Off (we don't know either, possibly cake-based representations of Paris Hilton's 'acting' in The Hottie And The Nottie or something?), with a Top 10 of Bad Films as chosen by hosts Nicko and Joe at 4pm, and a screening of famously awful sci-fi parable Battlefield Earth, starring John Travolta (or John Revolting as he was always known in our household), at 6pm, followed by cocktails at 8.30. ...
Continue Reading "Preview: Bad Film Club @ Barbican"If you've happily bounced around to Super Furry Animals hits over the last 15 years, you were probably a bit wowed by the sleek production of Neon Neon, a joint project between Gruff Rhys and eclectic bleepster Boom Bip. They'll be popping up at Wireless on Saturday, but if you fancy catching them do a full live gig, they'll do one of their first UK performances at Cargo on Sunday complete with guest stars Har...
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We at Londonist are firm believers in the old proverbs, and particularly that sage advice to "never look a gift horse in the mouth", which is why, dear readers, we are offering you the chance to win a right royal time at the world-famous Ascot races even though, technically speaking, the venue lies about six and a half miles out of our remit. Up for grabs for each of three lucky winners are a...
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Remember when going to a gig left you feeling dirty afterwards? The sweat dripping off of you, your glasses knocked from your face, beer thrown around, and stinking like a cigarette factory? Well, tonight featured a return to those times (minus the cigarette smell) when Londonist went to see Idlewild at ULU in London. Choosing to save us the (occasional) torture of a support band, they decided to support themselves, playing two sets, first of...
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