Entries from Londonist tagged with 'humor'
October 22, 2007
Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse"September 25, 2007
After following up a superb night with The Field by bringing Gui Boratto a few months later, Allez-Allez have fastly become one of our favourite club promoters. If we're not dancing to the best in minimal techno at one of their Plastic People events, then we're likely downloading one of the many installments in their excellent podcast mix series. This Wednesday, Sam and Steve return to Plastic People with techno superduo Supermayer (Superpitcher + Michael......
Continue Reading "Clubwatch: Allez-Allez"November 7, 2005
Unless you've boarded up the windows, stopped leaving the house, sealed your mailbox, kicked the tv in, unplugged the phone, dismantled the radio and used your Doc Martins to reboot your Mac/PC back to Scilicon Valley you'll probably have a slight inkling that it's going to be Christmas soon. In album release terms that means a Best Of for just about any band that's released more than one album and a few for some......
Continue Reading "Monday Music Review"November 4, 2005
Parterre Box began its life in 1993 as a photocopied punk-style zine distributed for free in the men's toilets of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Now that the internet has replaced the toilet as the place where men meet each other for anonymous sex, it is altogether fitting that Parterre Box is now distributed for free online. I first became aware of Parterre at its peak in 1998, when it was still a......
Continue Reading "Greg: Parterre Box"