London agenda for Tuesday 20 September
1. Watch a preview reading a hardened humanitarian worker and her callow associate heading out to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Bang Bang Bang [Le Cool]
2. Hear Manchester’s Airship at the Old Blue Last [Flavorpill]
3. Listen to a Q&A with the Cannes-winning director of Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn [Don’t Panic]
4. Take a trip through time via the Thames [Ian Visits]
5. Take a tour of the Mansion House [Tired of London]
20 Sept 2011
19 Sept 2011
Maps of every 24-hour booze shop in London
So it’s come to this.
Great spot by Richard Osley, who cannot believe his Camden patch is so underrepresented. If the website is accurate (and it’s worth reading the small print before slavishly following it), Islington, Lambeth and Haringey appear to be the best-stocked boroughs for a late night booze-up. Who knew?
19 Sept 2011
Five obscure blue plaque recipients I'd like to meet down the pub
I’ve been foraging round English Heritage’s Blue Plaques site. Some of the recipients are pretty obscure. Here are five characters from the first half of the alphabet whom I’d never heard of before. But now I’d really like to buy them a pint and pick their brains with my grasping mental claws.
19 Sept 2011
Diary of the shy Londoner
Many of the 200,000 nomads who move to London each year are just as brash as the braying masses who grew up here. But at least some newcomers are introverted, self-effacing souls who approach the city gates with trepidation, if not dread.
19 Sept 2011
September's 'Best of the Londonist' in Snipe
In this month’s print edition of Snipe, the fanatical Londoners at the Londonist wrote the following features.
19 Sept 2011
London agenda for Monday 19 September
1. Become disoriented at the Tate with Charles Matton [Le Cool]
2. Watch the demented horror porno-comedy Thundercrack at the Horse Hospital [Run Riot]
3. Check out the free art and music at the Merge Festival on Bankside [Flavorpill]
4. List to The Black Angels at Scala [Don’t Panic]
5. Time Out suggests Adele at the Hammersmith Apollo [Time Out]
6. Take a tour of ‘dilapidated’ Victorian Music Hall, Wilton’s [Ian Visits]
7. Tour Greenwich Yacht Club with Open House London [Tired of London]
19 Sept 2011
Stop going to tourist attractions that don't exist. It's embarrassing
Christopher Fowler has a nice line on Platform 9 3/4, the Harry Potter shrine at King’s Cross station.
18 Sept 2011
Shhh! The East London Libraries Festival starts today
The East London Libraries Festival kicks off today and runs until the 14th October, with events in Enfield, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest.
16 Sept 2011
Staple a steak to a flat cap and you've got the basic idea
There’s a great guest post by Jayne Shrimpton at The Victorianist, exploring the 19th century fetish for weaving corpses into hats.
The most bizarre and – some would say – repulsive trends in late-Victorian millinery occurred in the 1880s. During the latter half of the decade hat crowns grew tall, offering a generous display area for not only entire birds, perched upright or posed with wings outstretched, but, in the most extreme examples, an extraordinary array of animal and organic matter, from stuffed mice and reptiles to leaves, twigs and grass.
Best of all are the pictures. Go look.
16 Sept 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
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