London agenda for Wednesday 26 October
1. Look at some great images of Grace Jones and the Queen at Chris Levine: Selected Works [Le Cool]
2. Do something gratuitous at Artwank’s Horny House of Horror [Run Riot]
3. Headbang to Japanese 5 piece Envy at Xoyo [Flavorpill]
4. Discover the stars of the ukelele world at Tricity Vogue Ukulele Cabaret [Don’t Panic]
5. Shakes one’s fist at the Victorians over the poor law in Greenwich [Ian Visits]
6. See Eine’s Change [Tired of London]
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26 Oct 2011
Cycling superhighways
Green mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, after a cyclist was killed at the Bow Flyover portion of Boris Johnson’s cycle superhighway network.
Source: Evening Standard
25 Oct 2011
Attention Australians: discover what your no good convict forefather did to get deported
Ever wonder what foul deed caused your great great grandaddy to be banished from this pure and innocent isle? Well, there’s a new online historical resource at the Connected Histories site which might help.
It lets you search a big deportations list and the records of trials from the Old Bailey along side each other, and you can work it out from there. So if you know the right name, and their crime was bad enough or Londony enough to be tried at the Old Bailey, the rest is pretty easy. An example search, of one James Paul who stole some petticoats and a clock in 1830 and got sent to New South Wales, is here It’s a little fiddly, but might well be worth it.
To get you started, here are all the deported Warnes.
Source: Old Bailey Online Photo: Wikipedia
25 Oct 2011
Nuclear Seasons by Charli XCX
Snipe goes all Smash Hits on yo’ ass (that’s how the young people talk isn’t it?) for today’s MPFree, from London teen songstress Charli XCX. According to the lady herself, ‘Nuclear Seasons is about a sense of decay. Whether it be the decaying of love, the decaying of life or the decaying of a period of time. Its about being lost and frozen and surviving’. Whatever Charli, just keep churning out gloomy synth-pop gems like this, chuck in some cynical marketing and we’ll all be happy, ok? It’ll be business as usual tomorrow MPFree fans – some virtually unlistenable surf-gaze coming right back at ya (I should stop doing this now). Download Nuclear Seasons for free here.
25 Oct 2011
Multinational chemical company sponsoring Olympic Stadium may not be very nice
Ted Jeory has been banging on quite rightly about Locog’s decision to allow the Dow chemical company to sponsor a fabric wrap for the Olympic Stadium. The deal will bring in £7m, but the company now owns the company which owns the company which brought you the Bhopal disaster in 1984. Ancient history you might think, but it’s really not. Do read Ted’s posts to see how the dots join up.
25 Oct 2011
"Undertakers are getting away with murder" say campaigners, metaphorically
The only certain things in life are death, taxes, and spiralling funeral costs. Campaigners in Teddington are outraged.
25 Oct 2011
London agenda for Tuesday 25 October
1. Watch an ode to radio and records and John Peel himself at John Peel’s Shed [Run Riot]
2. Spend the afternoon at a tea dance, hosted by The Albany [Don’t Panic]
3. Okay, fine. See George Michael at Royal Albert Hall [Time Out]
4. Do the maths and figure out our days are numbered. It’s a comedy science thing. [Ian Visits]
5. Admire the view from Saunders Ness [Tired of London]
25 Oct 2011
Tfl's Jerry Maguire takes on Bob Crow. Nobody wins
There’s a Jerry Maguire figure on the loose at Tfl. Someone so racked with existential terror they stayed up one hot July night writing not a memo, but a mission statement. And dreaming some big and important dreams.
24 Oct 2011
London agenda for Monday 24 October
1. Show one’s prowess in Ping Pong at the Pongathon Launch Party [Le Cool]
2. Go hear what Michael Moore has to say [Run Riot]
3. Get more dark electronica than bargained from Ghosting Season at the Macbeth [Don’t Panic]
4. Get that damned crown back at Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe [Ian Visits]
5. Take a walk in Ruskin Park [Tired of London]
24 Oct 2011
Let's all laugh and feel smug at an NFL player getting London wrong
The padded jamboree is in town this weekend, and that’s all the excuse we need to run this video from 2009. Old then, but gold. Laugh as Brandon Meriweather misnames a famous London landmark. Revel as your preconceptions of American ignorance are thrillingly vindicated. Shudder as you realise just how insignificant and parochial this city must appear to the people we think of as our closest cultural friends.
21 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Diary of the shy Londoner
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