London agenda for Friday 8 October
London agenda for Friday 8 October
1. Catch the first UK solo show for rapidly emerging contemporary artist Andrew Curtis [Spoonfed]
2. Pay nothing to see Darwin Deez, Daisy Dares You and The Milk along with DJ sets from CocknBullKid, James Theaker and Emily Rawson at We Are One Festival [Le Cool]
3. Ask if London will still be a major city in 2050 [Run Riot]
4. Summer Camp, Frankie & The Heartstrings, and Big Deal at the Lex [London Gigs]
5. Step inside an 18th century debtors prison [Tired of London]
08 Oct 2010
The End Times: Bee killers found, St Pancras rent strikers, Under water Woolwich
The End Times: Bee killers found, St Pancras rent strikers, Under water Woolwich
1. They Figured Out What Was Killing the Bees! [NY Mag]
2. Fifty years ago the nine-month St Pancras rent strike came to its violent conclusion [Camden New Journal]
3. Trouble on – and under – the water at Woolwich [853]
07 Oct 2010
Big Deal
Big Deal are pretty hard to Google. Good job their MySpace address came to me in an email, or I’d never have found ‘em. Having listened through the songs on their player three times in a row, it’s fair to say their echoey, autumnal sound is fairly compelling: give it a spin, and head out to see them supporting Wet Paint at The Old Blue Last on Oct 11th. For free!
07 Oct 2010
Here's a bunch of well-known people who are supporting our agony uncle, Dan Savage's 'It Gets Better Project'
A few weeks back, Dan Savage launched the It Gets Better Project, a YouTube channel devoted to telling gay teens that hope isn’t misplace – life does get better once you leave school. It’s an adjunct to the Trevor Project, a US organisation that runs 24 hour helplines for suicidal gay teens.
Thousands of people have contributed videos already. And so should you. If you’re not gay, videos of support from breeders are welcome too. But a note from Dan: “It would be great to see more videos that give gay young people a picture of the lives they could make for themselves if they just hang in there. I realise that sometimes it’s hard to talk about the good in our lives, the things that make us happy, because it feels braggy and jinxy. And knowing that not everyone finds happiness in the same things can make us self-conscious. But lgbt kids who don’t know any lgbt adults need to see—with their own eyes—that gay adults lead happy and rewarding lives. So if you decide to make a video—and I hope that you do—don’t just share your pain. Share your joy. Give ’em hope. Save a life. www.youtube.com/itgetsbetterproject
Some people that you may have heard of have already made videos of support: Anne Hathaway, Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Silverman, and Daniel Radcliffe. Here’s a link to a whole bunch of famous people saying good things.
07 Oct 2010
London agenda for Thursday 7 October
London agenda for Thursday 7 October
1. Inject intravenously Brighton duo Blood Red Shoes [Spoonfed]
2. Bottoms up at Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities until it moves elsewhere [Le Cool]
3. Take Seb’s advice and see Laki Mera in Camden [Snipe]
4. Celebrate the opening of The Print Club London [Run Riot]
5. Stitch someone up at the Knitting & Stitching show afterparty [RUn Riot]
6. See Gog and Magog at St Dunstans in the West [Tired of London]
07 Oct 2010
Snipe Likes: Zola Jesus
Pop queen in waiting Zola Jesus has released a new track from her forthcoming EP Valusia, coming out October 12th via Sacred Bones. It’s another jaw-dropping, emotive vocal performance to fall in love with. Where she summons such commitment from, we don’t yet know. Expect to read about Ms. Jesus in a forthcoming issue.
06 Oct 2010
The End Times: Help save one of the last surviving workhouse buildings in London. (David Cameron may have plans)
The End Times: Help save one of the last surviving workhouse buildings in London. (David Cameron may have plans)
1. Help save the Cleveland Street Workhouse, one of the last surviving workhouse buildings in central London. [Workhouses]
2. Fleet Street church to hold service for slain media workers Truth at any cost [Journalism.org.uk]
3. Great profile of Gawker media owner Nick Denton [NY Mag]
4. The rise and fall of the the Review section in Dubai’s The National [NY Observer]
5. Weekly round-up of national restaurant critics
06 Oct 2010
NY Times covers East London's pop-up restaurant scene
The NY Times covers London’s pop-up restaurant scene. “Some [diners] have no idea where they’re going, what they’re going to eat or who they’re going to sit next to. You have to step up and give them something really special. It’s not just a transaction. It’s emotional.”
06 Oct 2010
Greenwich council spends £500,000 sacking 12 staffers in the name of austerity, only to replace them
In a stellar piece of reporting from the Greenwich Newsshopper, the paper discovered that Greenwich council sacked 12 members of the human resources staff as a cost saving measure, soaking taxpayers £509, 059. Of course, one cannot manage thousands of employees without an HR department, so the council hired 11 new positions, for an annual salary cost of £402, 486. We Govern by Serving indeed.
Council spent £500,000 making HR staff redundant only to replace them [Greenwich Newsshopper]
06 Oct 2010
Meet James Fletcher, student, and absconder of Jonathan Franzen's glasses
GQ owns this story and that’s their photo of Imperial College London student James Fletcher, pictured in better times at the Serpentine Pavilion, presumably before the incident. The incident, of course, was somebody nicked Jonathan Franzen’s glasses right off his face at his book launch Monday. Somebody, Fletcher, then ran off into the Serpentine river and was searched for by Met helicopters.
Fletcher tells GQ, “I’d mentioned several times to my accomplice how much I admired Franzen’s frames and thought that they deserved to be the subject of a hostage-ransom situation. After getting a pen from the bar staff and some paper I devised a short ransom note and we vaguely mentioned to some of the guests what my intentions were. Without thinking about it for too long, I planned my escape route and then passed the ransom note along to be delivered to the victim once I’d made my move. To bide me some time, I remember shouting as I snatched the glasses off the bewildered man’s face that I was with Channel 4 doing a comedy stunt. Looking back, I’m not exactly sure what that meant or why I said it.”
What does he think of Franzen? “He is one of the most talented writers out there.”
06 Oct 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- 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
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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