With the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games set to take Stratford by storm this summer, East London has cemented itself as a ‘must visit’ destination for tourists – many of whom will be taking mini-breaks to the capital. With such a huge offering, it can be a confusing forest of possibilities for those strapped for [...]
April 25, 2012
The Girl With The Iron Claws @ Soho Theatre – A Review
From ‘The Wrong Crowd’ theatre company comes ‘The Girl With The Iron Claws‘ which runs at the Soho Theatre until Saturday 5 May. ‘The Girl With The Iron Claws’ saw its debut at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, and is a dark tale inspired by the Nordic version of our own Beauty & The Beast (which [...]
April 24, 2012
The 11th SCI-FI LONDON Film Festival
This year’s SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival, which celebrates all things science fiction and fantasy, kicks off at 12 o’clock this Sunday, 29 April, with a costume pageant starting in Victoria Embankment Gardens and ending outside the National Theatre. No doubt there’ll be lots of ‘Doctors’, starship captains and aliens for you to feast your eyes on – [...]
April 24, 2012
BBC Television Centre Tours – A Fascinating Way To Spend a Day
A tour of the vast BBC Television Centre in the west of London (White City in fact, although the Wood Lane tube station is a little closer) takes you deep into the history and magic of the world’s most celebrated media organisation. You can see the news room that the whole world trusts, view costumes, props [...]
April 23, 2012
The Globe To Globe Festival Starts Today @ The Globe Theatre
From today (which happens to be William Shakespeare’s birthday), as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad the Globe Theatre on the Southbank is hosting the ‘Globe To Globe Festival‘, featuring performances of all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays by 37 theatre companies from around the world in their 37 native languages! Tonight’s show features a [...]
April 22, 2012
The ‘Enjoy England’ App Comes To Android
This a bit of a departure for the Londoneer, but I’ve just been told about a new app which has just been released for the Android smartphone platform which you might be interested in. It’s from our official tourist information body, ‘Visit England‘, and is called ‘Enjoy England‘. The app is very straightforward – you [...]
April 22, 2012
Is Cockney Rhyming Slang Really Dying or is Someone Telling Porkies?
A recent survey by the Museum of London suggests that the use of Cockney rhyming slang, a tradition which originated with the market traders and street vendors of London’s East End in Victorian times, is gradually dying out. As successive generations become attuned to different nuances of a constantly evolving language, it appears that Cockney [...]
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