Vuvuzelas For the Royal Wedding!

An Open Letter to the writers of Open Letters

London agenda for Friday 1 April

Dive Off The Sun by Glass Gifts

Arnold and Boris Are Bike Bros

Great spot by a reddit user of the Mayor and the Governator spending an afternoon riding bikes in their suits.

Tower Bridge is Going Up

For the first time in a few months, on Saturday one of the most famous bridges in the world will stop traffic and open up to let a boat through.

Slightly disappointingly, the first boat to go through is just a regular on the Thames, the MV Dixie Queen – an American style paddle steamer – which will do the usual trick of going through, turning around by HMS Belfast then heading back out again an hour later.

The “event” takes place at 5:30pm.

After Threat to Sue, Brick Lane Claims Olympic Gold

In a move that seems less about curry and more about currying favours (zing), Brick Lane has been named the Official London Curry Capital for 2012. This comes after the Tower Hamlets council threatened and then un-threatened legal action against the organisers over a re-routing of the Olympic marathon. This move, however, seems to ignore local popular opinion, which regularly ranks the Southall and Tooting districts over the more internationally recognised Brick Lane.

Maybe Southall and Tooting should threaten legal action? At the very least it might get them runner up status.

The Arts Cuts in Handy Depressing Chart Form

Wondering who will be bearing the brunt of the burden in the arts cuts? An in-depth chart illustrates where the 15 per cent reduction is coming from. Here’s a hint: everywhere.

London agenda for Thursday 31 March

Now It's Crocs. Has Japan Not Suffered Enough?

First an earthquake, then a tsunami, then a radioactive nuclear meltdown, and now Crocs Inc. has decided to donate 100,000 pairs of their hideous so-called “shoes” to the crumbling nation.