London agenda for Friday 24 June
1. Visit the indie publishers, literary talks, and pop-up roof-top cafe at the Copeland Book Market [Le Cool]
2. Weep into the schnapps because of Marcella Puppini & The Forget Me Nots at Bistrotheque [Run Riot]
3. Check out the San Francisco-based Cut + Run film festival at the Horse Hospital [Flavorpill]
4. Tomorrow, go chow down at the Soho Food Feast [Time Out]
5. Find out about Blackheath & Greenwich at War. Hopefully with each other. All Saints Church [Ian Visits]
6. Seek out Van Gogh’s house [Tired of London]
24 Jun 2011
Much ado about nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe
A trip to the Globe to sit through three hours of Shakespeare may not sound too appealing to most.
23 Jun 2011
ATP Hits London
We’re all looking forward to the first I’ll Be Your Mirror festival, curated by ATP and Portishead, at Ally Pally on July 23rd/24th right? PJ Harvey, Grinderman, Beach House, Caribou, Swans, GodSpeed You! Black Emperor – bloody marvellous! Well, for those who can’t wait, the nice people at ATP are holding a special fundraiser tonight at the Music Palace, Crouch End (N8 9BT), from 6pm -12am. They’ll be a pub quiz, ale tasting, a raffle and DJ sets from Fuck Buttons and ATP DJs. All proceeds go to the Friends Of Alexandra Palace Theatre. For more information, visit the ATP website.
In addition, you can now get your hands on a free two-hour mixtape, curated by Portishead, featuring virtually all the acts on the I’ll Be Your Mirror bill. Download it here.
23 Jun 2011
Shadwell is full of vandals, drunks and whores
That’s what Walter Scott reckoned in 1822.
“The brick buildings by which it was occupied, crowded closely on each other, […] riotous shouts, oaths, profane songs, and boisterous laughter, […] issued from the alehouses and taverns, which, as the signs indicated, were equal in number to all the other houses; and, that the full character of the place might be evident, several faded, tinselled and painted females, looked boldly at the strangers from their open lattices.”
[Via The Dabbler]
23 Jun 2011
Overexposed: The five most over-taken photos of London
We should probably all stop with these right now.
23 Jun 2011
An alternative cinema experience in Hackney Wick courtesy of Folly For A Flyover
Photograph by Sonny Malhotra
Hand-built in Hackney Wick, with local reclaimed materials, ‘Folly for a Flyover’ has transformed the derelict underside of the A12 Flyover into a performance space for all manner of events. From 24 June until 31 July they’re holding workshops by day and screenings, live scores, light shows and performances by night.
Evenings are arranged around weekly themes from ‘Fables’ and ‘Characters/Superheroes’ to the Hackney Wicked Festival. Films will range from animated classics to early and experimental cinema, including Flash Gordon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Toy Story and Tron (with a live score performance) whilst performances are confirmed from the likes of Peggy Sue.
You can check out the full schedule below.
June
24 – Once Upon A Time In A Folly Far Far Away feat. Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
25 – The Adventures of Prince Achmed w/Live Soundtrack by Sawchestra
26 – The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
July
1 – Middle of The Road w/ Peggy Sue
2 – The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
3 – Requiem For Detroit
8 – Tron w/Live Score
9 – Trip To The Moon and Other Shorts w/Live Score
10 – Secret Screening
15 – Flash Gordon
16 – Minnie The Moocher and Gertie and Her Gaeity
17 – Toy Story and Bicycle Thieves
22 – Akira
23 – 2001: A Space Odyssey
24 – Wizard Of Oz
29 – Hackney Wicked Presents Video and Short Films
30 – The Wild One
31 – A Few More Dollars
Details on how and when to purchase your £4 movie tickets can be found over on Folly For a Flyover’s website.
23 Jun 2011
London agenda for Thursday 23 June
1. Look at the photos of night owls, klub kids and after-hours-moochers at CAMP [Le Cool]
2. Be blown away by Nils Bec [Run Riot]
3. Create | Destroy | Innovate [Flavorpill]
4. Check out an endangered Georgian Spitalfields House [Ian Visits]
5. Visit the Museum of 51 [Tired of London]
6. Sleep all night then have breakfast in the morning in the name of art. Lullaby [Time Out]
7. Visit this secret space [Thrillist]
23 Jun 2011
For sale today in Mayfair: the gun of notorious tax evader Al Capone
Christies are selling it at 1.00pm, so rustle up that £50,000 pretty sharpish. Here’s the lot.
And here’s a bonus list of some great gangster monikers from the period, plucked from his wikipedia page.
Alphonse “Scarface Al” Capone
Richard Two-Gun Hart
Ralph “Bottles” Capone
Salvatore “Frank” Capone
James “Big Jim” Colosimo
Dean O’Banion
William “Big Bill” Hale Thompson
Hymie Weiss
Bugs Moran
Frankie Rio
Johnny Torrio
Owney “The Killer” Madden
22 Jun 2011
Five most annoying bits of bad English on the tube network
A while back we ranted about annoying passenger habits. Now it’s the turn of bad language habits. Stop saying these things!
Non-stopping at
“This train will be non-stopping at x.” No! The train won’t be “non-stopping”, the train “will not stop”. It’s shorter, it’s easier to say, it doesn’t have a hideous hyphen…why on earth would you say non-stopping in the first place?
Let people off of the train first
There’s something about hearing the words “off of” at 0730 on a rainy Monday morning which brings a man close to the edge.
Your next station stop
This is, bizarrely, more common on the Overground. I’ve never understood why, but then I’ve never understood anything about this redundant gabble of words, half of which could be excised immediately without altering the meaning one jot.
Passenger incident
Either tell me something horrible has happened, or don’t tell me. I’m a prurient voyeur, so if you’re going to censor information for the sake of public decency, please censor it all. Don’t taunt me with nods and winks.
Adverse weather
Don’t say “due to adverse weather”. It just sounds…adverse.
22 Jun 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 22 June
1. Go see a double-bill of Groundhog Day and Cedar Rapids at the Riverside [Le Cool]
2. Get lost in Kafkaesque officialdom at The Secret Consul… in a secret location [Run Riot]
3. Check out the rejects of the National Gallery Portrait Competition at Dazed and Refused [Flavorpill]
4. Swim and eat at the Parliament Hill Lido Midsummer Party [Time Out]
5. Discuss Mary Shelley and Romantic Science (and that Creature) with Richard Holmes [Ian Visits]
6. Watch Wimbledon in Cardinal Place [Tired of London]
22 Jun 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
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- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- 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?
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
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