London agenda for Monday 16 January
1. Discover the supernatural Charles Dickens [Le Cool]
2. Watch sublime and violent works of Tokyo-based artist Umeda at the London International Mime Festival [Run Riot]
3. Look at twenty life-size female statues in Ambika P3’s subterranean space by Eva Caridi [Flavorpill]
4. Combat ‘Blue Monday’ by visiting the Architecture Foundation, which will reverberate at 111Hz, a frequency known to induce endorphins in human physiology. Sounding Space [Don’t Panic]
5. View a screening of Laurent Pelly’s exquisite interpretation of Jules Massenet’s fairytale opera Cendrillon [Time Out]
6. Look at the Strand from the animals’ points of view [Ian Visits]
7. See the Dudgeons Wharf Memorial [Tired of London]
16 Jan 2012
With Just One Glance by Nicolas Jaar feat. Scout LaRue
The new one from Mr Jaar features a fashionably lazy, slightly ropey vocal from Bruce Willis/Demi Moore sprog Scout LaRue. It kind of works though, right? Do you think she was conceived on the set of The Last Boy Scout?
Nicolas Jaar feat. Scout LaRue – With Just One Glance by snipelondon
13 Jan 2012
Alan Moore visits Occupy London
I’m not certain that a guy responsible for hundreds of millions of pounds worth of films and comics is an underground figure like Channel 4 says but this video of Alan Moore speaking to his V-for-Vendetta-masked spawn at Occupy London is pretty good.
13 Jan 2012
The tragic tale of Waterstones' apostrophe, in their own words
I don’t know who’s running the Twitter account for Waterstones Oxford St. I only know that I like their style.
My prediction: neither apostrophes nor Waterstones will exist in 15 years time.
Snipe – Five grammatical rules technology is destroying
The Guardian – So, Waterstones – no apostrophe? Hey, no catastrophe
13 Jan 2012
London agenda for Friday 13 January
1. Glimpse at the ‘computer game fantasies and R ‘n’ B soundtracked dreamscapes’ of Rustie at The Nest [Le Cool]
2. Discover that True Blood fans have a regular Fangtasia night [Run Riot]
3. Talk to the director of The Collaborator and His Family, which follows a Palestinian family whose father collaborated with the Israeli security services for 20 years. At the Frontline [Don’t Panic]
4. Watch professional league ice sculpture [Time Out]
5. Plan to finally build Taitlin’s Tower. [Ian Visits]
6. Visit the Cuming Museum [Tired of London]
13 Jan 2012
Dahle Disco by 120 Days
An electrifying, mutating journey through house – from techy ambience, to deep, to filthy electro, and back again – courtesy of Norway’s 120 Days. Dahle Disco is taken from their new album 120 Days II, out March 5th on Splendour.
12 Jan 2012
London agenda for Thursday 12 January 2012
1. Look at Ewan Spencer’s photos of the White Stripes at KK Outlet [Le Cool]
2. Visit the Foundling Museum for recent work by Quentin Blake [Run Riot]
3. Hey, the Jerk store called. They’re all out of you. Dalston Superstore. [Don’t Panic]
4. Get lectured at by a Brunel house historian [Ian Visits]
5. Admire Saint Paul’s Deptford [Tired of London]
12 Jan 2012
Cyan by Kindness
Fervent blog followers may have come across this track from London/Berlin based Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness, towards the end of the summer. The Larry Levan indebted Cyan is now available as a free download via iTunes. Fancy. Check out the suitably set video above. We’d offer you the track directly from the widget below, but Apple/Polydor may kick our butts. Unutterable scaredy cats we are. Debut album World, You Need A Change Of Mind is released March 12th.
11 Jan 2012
Electric car? Electric can't
Green Party AM Darren Johnson has a piece at Left Foot Forward forensically dissecting Mayor Johnson’s electric car policy announcements, and the lack of substantive progress to match them. Sample quote:
A £1 million fund has featured in numerous media reports in October 2009 and again in December 2010…Not only is the £1 million the same money in 2009 and 2010, but it hasn’t actually been budgeted or spent yet. [his emphasis]
It’s a fine critique of a media mayor.
Darren Johnson AM @ Left Foot Forward – Boris’s electric vehicle boasts are an inverted pyramid of piffle
11 Jan 2012
Ealing wallaby decapitation: Police blame fox or foxes unknown
The Met police have closed their investigation into the brutal murders of three wallabies in Ealing last year. They say the crime was probably committed by foxes, although other avian and mammalian suspects have not been ruled out.
“After extensive enquiries, no criminal matters have been disclosed and no arrests have been made…Our enquires have concluded that the deaths were most likely to have been caused by animal behaviour, for example foxes.”
One wallaby, Bruce, was found headless in October at Brent Lodge Animal Park in Hanwell. His two replacements were killed the following month. Humans were initially suspected, but the police appear to be ruling us out. Which leaves the foxes.
Whether a lone serial killer is still on the loose, or the deaths were the work of a gang of foxes with a particular prejudice against wallabies, has never been established. By closing the file, the police appear to have resigned themselves to letting the guilty parties roam free.
Met Police Wallaby Inquiry Concludes
Daily Mail – Two more wallabies found dead at same animal park where third was beheaded last month
Ealing Times – Sickening death of Hanwell park wallaby: can you help find killer?
Snipe (this post actually supports our russet coloured friends) – Urban foxes are diabolical fiends that must be destroyed
11 Jan 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
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