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Blog Post Archive
Sunday Seasoning #158
Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London.
This week, SabineThoele has captured some casual multitasking on a sunshine-dappled stroll through a cemetary. But which one?
Free & Cheap London Events: 20-26 May 2013
Interesting and unusual things to do for a fiver or less this week.
A rare opportunity to look inside The Supreme Court this Saturday. Pictured: The Library, courtesy of UK Supreme Court.
CHELSEA FRINGE : Horticultural happenings across with capital continue this week with Chelsea Fringe festival. Show More Summary
Fallen In Love Is The King Of Site-Specific Theatre
The story of Anne Boleyn staged in the Tower of London? Site-specific theatre might just have reached its peak: go back to your proscenium arches, companies, none of you will be able to top this.
Fallen in Love focuses on Anne’s relationship...Show More Summary
Affairs And Crooning In A Musical Of Cabaret Legend Hutch
London’s in a bout of craze for all things 20s: first the Great Gatsby ballet at Sadler’s Wells and now this. Hutch boasts sequinned dresses, feather boas, smoking, drinking and, of course, lots of singing.
The musical follows the life and fame of Leslie Hutchinson, one of the biggest cabaret stars (and womanisers it transpires) of the 1920s and 30s. Show More Summary
London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 19-25 May
The Austentatious team / photo by Idil Sukan
Where to find funny this week
Sunday 19 May: Daniel Simonsen, Paul Rickett, Edward Hedges, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Simon Caine, Luke Graves, Laura McClenaghan, Paul Duncan McGarrity and MCShow More Summary
Video: Horniman Walrus Goes On A Summer Holiday
The Horniman Museum’s famously mal-stuffed walrus was recently packed away for a short trip to Margate, where he’ll be on show at the Turner Contemporary gallery until September. The video above shows the delicate operation to lift the toothy, one-tonne mammal from his plinth and into a transport crate, and then out onto the streets of south London. Show More Summary
Extra, Extra
The first Chief Social Worker is appointed Couple found dead in a Bloomsbury flat The Mayor plans to privatise London electric vehicle charging point network Two more skyscrapers are planned for City Road A protest march defending London’s...Show More Summary
Londonist Out Loud: A Podcast About London, 17 May 2013
Welcome to the latest episode of Londonist Out Loud, a podcast about London. You can listen in-browser, or subscribe via iTunes or RSS. We’re now also available on Stitcher.
Londonist Out Loud is presented and produced by N Quentin Woolf. ...Show More Summary
Connections Across Generations: 4000 Miles At The Print Room
New York, West Side, 3am: a young man turns up unannounced at his grandmother’s apartment, fresh from a bike trip. But where has he been, what went wrong out on the road, and why are his parents frantic with worry? As Leo takes refuge...Show More Summary
Baroque The Streets: Dulwich House Gets Street Art Makeover
Take one suburban house in Dulwich. Assemble around 20 of the world’s most famous street artists. Take ‘em round Dulwich Picture Gallery to draw inspiration from some Baroque masters. Then let them loose on the house. That’s the centrepiece...Show More Summary
Away From It All Photo Challenge: Top Three Selected
Many thanks to everyone who submitted photos to our Away From It All photo challenge, in partnership with London Transport Museum’s Poster Art 150 exhibition. Our experts, Anna Renton (exhibition curator) and Tina Scott (art editor of...Show More Summary
Time Travel London: On London Bridge
Continuing our series of images merging different periods in London’s history.
Nadja Ryzhakova sends us this colourful vision of London past, present and future, as painted on her iPad. A horse-drawn omnibus crosses London Bridge to the Surrey side, overtaken by a Boris Bike, while a vinage car passes by towards the City. Show More Summary
Propaganda: A Very Persuasive Show At The British Library
How many of your “five a day” have you had so far today? Did you avoid running for your train in the rain last night, knowing the station floor might be slippery? Or maybe you felt a twinge of nationalism handing over the Queen’s smiley face on a fiver for your morning coffee? Propaganda, it seems, is everywhere. Show More Summary
MasterCard Presents 20% Off London Shopping Night
This is a sponsored post on behalf of Mastercard Priceless London.
For one night only, Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard are closing their streets to traffic and inviting Londoners to a 20% off shopping night in Covent Garden.
On...Show More Summary
Try Japanese Whisky At Smiths of Smithfields
London’s getting into the swing of Japanese whisky at the moment. Hot on the heels of Mizuwari in Soho, which opened a few months ago, Smiths of Smithfields is hosting a three-day whiskey pop-up sponsored by Nikka, featuring what organisers claim is the largest collection of Japanese whiskies in London. Show More Summary
London Underground On Film: The Boy Who Turned Yellow
It’s a splendid clip but no, we don’t know why either. Suggestions in the comments please. The Boy Who Turned Yellow was the last feature film made by the distinguished duo of Powell and Pressburger. It is one of three films featured on a new volume of Children’s Film Foundation tales, Weird Adventures, released on DVD by the BFI on 17 June 2013.
The Friday Photos: Pants
How do we come up with themes for The Friday Photos, literally none of you have asked? Well, it chiefly stems from what’s crossing our minds at the time. Draw your own psychoanalysis from this week. But before you do, take a look at this video of a knicker chandelier by Pipilotti Rist, filmed by annemmu at the Hayward Gallery a couple of years ago. Show More Summary
Things To Do In London Today: Friday 17 May 2013
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Celebrate Greenwich...Show More Summary
Extra, Extra
4,500 jobs will be created as iCITY gets to run the the Olympic Park’s Press and Broadcast Centre.
Doubts over economic benefits of HS2.
There’ll be a big reading festival (as opposed to Reading Festival) in Trafalgar Square this summer.
Cuts...Show More Summary
Clerkenwell Design Week, 21-23 May 2013
Scene from last year's Clerkenwell Design Week
Clerkenwell’s annual celebration of all things design is nearly upon us once again.
CDW is part trade fair, part marketing blitz, but it also packs in a fair amount for the interested observer. Show More Summary