London agenda for Friday 22 October
1. Head to Dalston for New Cross’ annual extravaganza Nail The Cross Wait, what? [Le Cool]
2. Hang out with Super mom [Run Riot]
3. Watch short films stripped of their soundtracks and replaced with live music [Don’t Panic]
4. Look at the fantastical pieces of the Bloomsbury Festival [Time Out]
5. Discuss being the last of the colonials with Christopher Ondattje [Ian Visits]
6. Visit Fenton House [Tired of London]
21 Oct 2011
Next time someone tells you they are conservative, in favour of a small state, of personal freedom, of liberty, ask them their views on Dale Farm
Two columns of riot police, shields in position, carrying ladders and armed with tasers, cresting a hill under cover of darkness. A single, stark, sandblasted house in the background; the inhabitants, one imagines, peering out of the windows in confusion and fear.
20 Oct 2011
London Zoo imitates exact plot of Harry Potter - risks all our lives
First, Ohio gets overrun by escaped lions. Now London Zoo decides it’s a good idea to get a big snake. Not just any snake, a maneating Burmese python. And there’s more.
The snake arrives at the Reptile House almost exactly ten years after the famous scene from the first Harry Potter movie was filmed at the same location where Harry Potter accidentally releases a Burmese python from its enclosure.
So let’s get this straight: You’re unveiling a real maneating snake in the exact place where the exact same species of fictional maneating snake escaped almost exactly 10 years ago to the day, and doing so on the exact day 50 wild animals escaped to wreak havoc in America…I’m not one for superstitions, but take my advice people – stay away from Regent’s Park. Forever.
20 Oct 2011
Hogan-Howe: for now, it's all about the PR
In this image he stakes out his role as a civic paterfamilias, sternly disapproving of his errant son (Boris, here representing the lawless city itself), but ultimately forgiving.
20 Oct 2011
We went to the Pop Montreal festival
This year’s Pop Montreal had everything from the return of the legendary Raincoats to a free Arcade Fire show with 100,000 in attendance to a messy, bloody, Fucked Up set– not to mention art and film events scattered around.
20 Oct 2011
London agenda for Thursday 20 October
1. Float on a boat whilst the antics of Fawlty Towers go on [Le Cool]
2. Listen to Veronica Falls and Echo Lake at the Lex [Run Riot]
3. View pretty pictures to go with the sofa at the Affordable Art Fair [Time Out]
4. Hear Yann Tiersen at the Roundhouse [Don’t Panic]
5. Wonder What is Madness? [Ian Visits]
6. Watch for birds on Mount Pond [Tired of London]
20 Oct 2011
Tournoi by Pigeons
Pigeons, from the Bronx, are now onto their third long-player: They Sweetheartstammers is released November 8th via Soft Abuse.
19 Oct 2011
Occupy protest: some backlash
If Josh Hall articulated the case for wholeheartedly supporting for Occupy London, then Patrick at Shit London sets out what is probably a more widely held view.
19 Oct 2011
Just for comparison
Annual salary of Gareth Daniel, Chief Executive of Brent Council: £194,550 [pdf link]
Annual cost of the now closed Kensal Rise library: £162,468 [pdf link]
19 Oct 2011
Huzzah to Julian Barnes
The 2011 winner of the Booker Prize has just been announced and finally after three previous nominations, Julian Barnes is a winner.
19 Oct 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
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