A List of the Best Places to Masturbate in The National Gallery
In honour of the Ig Noble Awards Show and it’s championing of preposterous research, Londonist presents a guide to every artistic nipple and genital in the revered museum.
09 Mar 2011
It Gets Better, Now in Book Form! Plus David Cameron says 'It Gets Better,' too. On tape.
So now, if that bigoted, hateful relative of yours was too hateful to figure out how to open a YouTube, you can cram your message of positivity down his throat in easy to digest, old-timey printed format.
09 Mar 2011
Orange Censoring Red?
The cellular giant has been blocking emails containing any iteration of the word “Marx”, “Marxism” or “Marxist”.
09 Mar 2011
The Trainspotting Posters: Fifteen Years Later
Creative Review publishes an in-depth interview Mark Blamire and Rob O’Connor, the brains behind the iconic artwork.
09 Mar 2011
Founder of Forgotten Social Network Platform Launching Another One
Remember Bebo? Yes, neither does anybody else. It was a thing on the internet that happened back when AOL wasn’t a subsidiary of the Huffington Post and still had $850 million to throw at something that might become “the next Facebook,” before it was blindingly apparent to everyone on the internet that there would never, thank God, be another “the next Facebook.”
09 Mar 2011
London agenda for Wednesday 9 March
1. Visit a new micro cinema in South London [Le Cool]
2. Take at look at the works of Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Wolf and explore the presumed madness of the women that created some of literature’s greatest works [Run Riot]
3. Learn how to translate comic books to video games [Flavorpill]
4. Find your nearest toilet [Tired of London]
5. Hear some speedfreak Kraftwerk crossed with a rock ‘n’ roll Suicide at Ulterior, Islington Boys Club and Neurotic Mass Movement [London Gigs]
6. Listen to spoken word celeb Polarbear and the rising stars, Indigo Williams, Professor Elemental and Mia Jerome at Apples & Snakes [Jon Davis]
09 Mar 2011
Holloway Teen Jailed After Police Discover Crack in His Bum
The best headlines truly do write themselves.
08 Mar 2011
Thao and Mirah feat. Tune-Yards
Singer-songwriters Thao (of the Get Down Stay Down) and Mirah release their self-titled debut on April 26, via Kill Rock Stars. Recorded over two weeks last summer, the album was produced by Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards: check out her trademark percussion on opening track Eleven, which she co-wrote and guests on. Splendid stuff.
08 Mar 2011
Metro Readers Unfamiliar With the Term “Century”
Leona Lewis has been selected as the most influential woman to live or work in London in the past hundred years.
08 Mar 2011
Boris Johnson cuts funding for London festivals
A series of festivals and events funded by the Mayor are under threat of cancellation, The Scoop can reveal.
London Film Day launched last year by the mayor will now no longer be funded.
USA Day and the Middle East Campaign both announced last year have also been cancelled.
A spokesperson for the Mayor said that they had “no proposals” to fund Refugee Week this year but that this may change.
Most surprisingly of all the Mayor’s flagship Story of London Festival may not now go ahead.
A spokesperson said that details were still to be confirmed but that they were in talks with the Museum of London and the Southbank Centre to launch a new “Festival of Britain” instead.
The Story of London festival was a personal project of the Mayor but has received a mixed reception in the two years since it was launched, with most participants not even aware of his role in it.
A survey commissioned in 2009 found that 76% of those taking part in “Story of London” events did not know the Mayor had funded or promoted them and only 7% had seen one of his guides to the festival.
A spokesperson for the Mayor said that they would continue to review the range of events funded by City Hall.
08 Mar 2011
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
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