As a radio broadcaster, it takes a lot of guts to call bloggers "inadequate, pimpled and single"
As a radio broadcaster, it takes a lot of guts to call bloggers inadequate, pimpled and single
11 Oct 2010
London agenda for Monday 11 October
London agenda for Monday 11 October
- Become exhausted just thinking about Renditions, a dance mix of extreme physicality and intense performance[Spoonfed]
- Free beer, free shit, and free hip hop at Akil the Emcee & Louis Logic [Le Cool]
- Watch a play at the Orange Tree Theatre [Tired of London]
- Watch Matt Smith Q&A the new drama Christopher & His Kind [Run Riot]
11 Oct 2010
Robert Redford may be in talks with the O2 for a London version of the Sundance festival
Sundance film festival founder Robert Redford has been in talks with the 02 about creating a film festival, “says Deadline.com.” And that’s about it. They’re negotiating, they say.
Of course, we already have the Raindance Film Festival, stuffed with indie films and running until this Sunday.
08 Oct 2010
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
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
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
Shhh. OK, Daily Express and Channel Five owner is divorced
The gossip is strangely quiet as Richard Desmond and Janet Desmond divorced over Richard’s ‘unreasonable behaviour’.
06 Oct 2010
London agenda for Wednesday 6 October
London agenda for Wednesday 6 October
1. Find one’s inner moog at Electronica [Le Cool]
2. Admire one of the world’s greatest living photographers, Elliott Erwitt: Platinum Prints & Classic Snaps [Flavorpill]
3. Mind the landlord at the Nag’s Head [Tired Of London]
06 Oct 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- 9 poems about London: one for each of your moods
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
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