Watch: Applicants
An ace Applicants video that somehow slipped under the radar, directed by Mike Prior.
24 Sept 2010
London agenda for Friday and the Weekend 24 Sept - 26 Sept
London agenda for Friday and the Weekend 24 Sept – 26 Sept
1. Buy cheap art books at the London Art Book Fair (Fri) [Run Riot]
2. Verb verb noun non at the Bubblegum Slut Fanzine birthday party (Sat) [Londongigs]
3. See the new play Crimes of the Heart (Sun) [Spoonfed]
24 Sept 2010
The End Times: Lovefilm being sold to Amazon?
The End Times: Lovefilm being sold to Amazon?
1. Amazon buying LoveFilm? It may be a ruse. [TechCrunch EU]
2. Arts’ Theatre Tenants Given Notice, Shows Axed [What’s On Stage]
3. Zaha Hadid’s first permanent building in the UK opened quietly last week [Monocle]
4. Man thrown out of hotel for writing TripAdvisor review [Blackpool Gazette]
5. George Galloway could run for Mayor of Tower Hamlets [East London Advertiser]
6. Does IPC Media care about the fate of its employees when selling off its magazines? [Greenslade]
23 Sept 2010
Your tax dollars at work: MI6 tried to make invisible ink out of semen
Sit down kiddies, this goes way back, back to 1915:
Writing in his diary, deputy head of military intelligence at GHQ France asked the London University about invisible inks.
“In October he noted that he ‘heard from C that the best invisible ink is semen’, which did not react to the main methods of detection. Furthermore it had the advantage of being readily available.
Insert penmanship joke here — ed.
However, “at least one agent had to be reminded to use only fresh supplies of the ‘ink’ when correspondents began noticing an unusual smell.”
MI6 ‘used bodily fluids as invisible ink’ [The Telegraph]
23 Sept 2010
23 Sept 2010
Gaggle: The Brilliant & The Dark
24-piece all-girl choir Gaggle do a very special show tonight, performing a reinterpreted opera, first performed in 1969 by the Women’s Institute. An intriguing idea: check out the trailer below, and get more info here.
23 Sept 2010
23 Sept 2010
Smoke Fairies
London’s wonderful Smoke Fairies have just released their debut album, “Through Low Light & Trees”, and given us this fantastic excerpt by way of a teaser. Check out their hypnotic, bluesy folk here.
23 Sept 2010
London agenda for Thursday 23 September
London agenda for Thursday 23 September
1. Rant against the funding cuts to art at the ICA [Le Cool]
2. Count 4 or 5 Magicians at the Rest Is Noise [London Gigs]
3. Check out vintage through the ages [Spoonfed]
23 Sept 2010
The End Times: how to eat a muffin while walking + Playboy bunnies
The End Times: how to eat a muffin while walking + Playboy bunnies
1. Bunny Girls and Playboy Models’ reunion hosted by ex-Bunny Barbara Haigh, esteemed landlady of The Grapes in Limehouse. [Spitalfields Life]
2. How I sexed-up the world’s most genteel magazine – by Rachel Johnson [Hate Mail]
3. How to eat a muffin while walking [The Incidental Economist]
22 Sept 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- 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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