The End Times: Food trucks, resto reviews, and Logan's Run's Carousel
1. Logan’s Run depicted as a giant LEGO diorama. Finally. [I Heart Chaos]
2. London’s best food trucks [Time Out]
3. Weekly round-up of national critics’ restaurant reviews [iStarvin]
4. Hey, neither Miliband is a god botherer [The Scotsman]
29 Sep 2010
And you think your student loan is bad...
Der Spiegel reports that October 3rd will be the day Germany finally pays off the last bit of interest on its reparations payments from the treaty of Versailles in 1919. So they’ve been paying that debt back, give or take (Hitler wasn’t all that keen to keep up repayments), for 91 years. Kind of puts your next credit card bill in perspective…
Germany Closes Book on World War I With Final Reparations Payment [Der Spiegel]
29 Sep 2010
London agenda for Wednesday 29 September
London agenda for Wednesday 29 September
1. Don’t Panic! And also, admire ten years of Don’t Panic posters [Le Cool]
2. Tell tales at Spin Cities [Le Cool]
3. Get psychedelic with Violens, Mabel Love, Sad Day for Puppets, and Venus Fury [London Gigs]
4. Legitimately enter Shoreditch House (for once) and drink free G&Ts at the Literary Salon [Run Riot]
5. Seek sustenance at the Pavilion Cafe, Dulwich Park [Tired of London, Tired of Life]
6. Plot the overthrow of the previous five selections at the Last Tuesday Society, A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents [Run Riot] (And no, it was not yesterday. Thank you for asking.)
29 Sep 2010
London agenda for Monday 27 September
London agenda for Monday 27 September
1. Listen to Five outstanding and entertaining individuals for fifteen minutes to tell the story of their greatest ideas, achievements and obsessions [Le Cool]
2. Steal into Art by Offenders [Le Cool]
3. Put modern America under the microscope [Spoonfed]
27 Sep 2010
The End Times: French film cliches
The End Times: French film cliches
1. The other football. BritBowl XXIV – London Blitz retain National Championship with victory over Coventry [Camden New Journal]
2. Funny maps of European sterotypes [AlphaDesigner]
3. Help Dalston’s Arcola theatre move the stage to the next stage [Hackney Gazette]
4. French film cliches [Sabotage Times]
24 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 2010
London agenda for Wednesday
London agenda for Wednesday
1. Groove Eric Chenaux, Dead Rat Orchestra, and Braindead CollecTive
2. Put some slick flowers in our hair at The Vaselines and Haight-Ashbury at Scala [London Gigs]
3. London’s next top tranny speaks for itself [Spoonfed]
4. Spend 26 seconds watching a film [Le Cool]
22 Sep 2010
London agenda for Tuesday
London agenda for Tuesday
1. Avoid writing a novel in new and creative ways at the FLOW Festival [Le Cool]
2. Be inspired by the Art of the Fanzine
3. Watch the 1962 Joan of Arc at the Working Man’s [Run Riot]
21 Sep 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Hope and despair in Woolwich town centre
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
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