Rupert Murdoch inflicts 'The Daily' on iPads, beginning next week
News Corporation’s iPad-only daily newspaper, The Daily, now has a logo (right), a holding page website (theDaily.com), and a launch date, Wednesday 19 January. Yahoo reports that it’s such a to-do that Steve Jobs will be joining Rupert Murdoch on stage to launch it.
11 Jan 2011
London agenda for 11 January 2011
1. See Brighton-based singer-songwriter, cellist and, erm, boxer Abi Wade at Favela Chic [Le Cool]
2. Visit inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms. Don’t turn on the light [Run Riot]
3. Eat meat in New Cross [Thrillist]
4. Drink and think at The Book Club’s Interrobang [Jon Davis]
11 Jan 2011
Happy Winterval, everyone
Snipe is on holidays until 4 January. We’ll be posting here periodically — look for some Top 5s for Christmas and New Years — but otherwise we are holed up somewhere, waiting for it all to blow over.
20 Dec 2010
London agenda for Friday 17 December
1. See a play at the Union Theatre and Cafe [Tired of London]
2. Be hush hush at Scandalism [Le Cool]
3. Have an alternative Christmas extravaganza with Lates at the Barbican [Run Riot]
4. Go bowling with Hula-Hoop-fuelled rockabilly-beach party crew Rock A Hula team and vintage night Hellzapoppin [Run Riot]
5. Whatever with Municipal Waste [Spoonfed]
17 Dec 2010
London agenda for Thursday 16 December
1. Save Zuzu’s petals from that scurvy little spider at It’s a Wonderful Life [Le Cool]
2. What’s the frequency, Wilkes & Pester & Silva? [Run Riot]
3. Have a drink at the Lord Clyde [Tired of London]
16 Dec 2010
London agenda for Wednesday 15 December
1. Do the Lindy Hop at Dancing the Decade [Le Cool]
2. Sing carols around the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree [Tired of London]
3. Be a modern-day suffragette at Climate Rush [Run Riot]
4. Lampoon totalitarianism with Laibach [London Gigs]
15 Dec 2010
London agenda for Tuesday 14 December
1. Jasper and Harry’s Tate Modern located in a dry cleaners [Le Cool]
2. Dance at the The Dalston Darlings Women’s Institute not quite Christmas [Run Riot]
3. Investigate the Malt Whisky Room at the Vintage House [Tired of London]
4. Asia! Really. At the Forum. [London Gigs]
14 Dec 2010
London agenda for Monday 13 December
1. Sell a kidney to see The Drums [Le Cool]
2. Be inspired by Sara Shamsavari’s Britain – Retold, at City Hall [Run Riot]
3. Laugh at a Georgie [Spoonfed]
13 Dec 2010
London agenda for Friday 10 December
1. Feel like one is lazily sitting by the river with Chris Brokaw and Geoff Farina for free [London Gigs]
2. Sip cocktails in a caravan at Barrio North [Tired of London]
3. Banish Grinchdom with carols by The Choir with No Name [Le Cool]
4. Fire up the Xmas Dance Party 4000 at the Working Man’s [Run Riot]
5. Press laws in the UK require Snipe to mention Panto with the Hof [Run Riot] Sorry, it’s the law.
10 Dec 2010
London agenda for Thursday 9 December
1. Support the Ministry of Stories (based on Dave Egger’s 826 Valencia concept) at Psychopaths and Singalongs [Le Cool]
2. Relate to the Beat generation at Hipstocratic [Run Riot]
3. Relive our salad days with Echo & The Bunnymen [London Gigs]
4. Leave your pit for Mayors of Miyazaki, Sunday Mourning, Franco, Pulpo [London Gigs]
5. Wear a piece of London history [Tired of London]
6. See art curated by novelist and theorist Richard Appignanesi at Calvert 22 [Spoonfed]
7. Mix romantic folk pop sensibilities and more mature, cynical numbers with Slow Club [Lauren Down]
09 Dec 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
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