Author Archive

Please mind the Tango dancers

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: News

It won’t just be fellow miserable commuters you will have to dodge your way past on the tubes at 6pm; but tonight you may find a couple dancing the Tango in front of you.
Between 6-7pm tonight Tangoing couples will take to seven bridges and seven stations to commemorate the July 7 bombings, and as part [...]



Greatest gambler alive

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: News

After a stella performance at Glastonbury on Saturday night, Jay Z revealed his favourite hobby when in the UK; gambling.
The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” admitted his love for playing in secret gambling dens while staying in London.
Jay-Z told Time Out; “I’m a pretty big, almost professional, gambler. I’m not gonna say any names [...]



The secrets of Lincoln’s Inn Fields

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: I Love London, Tourist In Your Own Town

Lydia Mossahebi discovers London’s unusual museums in Holborn



Hanging out with the Women’s Institute

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: Features

Before stumbling across Islington’s branch of the women’s institute, Lydia Mossahebi had no idea where to go to learn how to put up shelves and successfully paint multicoloured walls. And now she’s uncovered a place where female Londoners can get empowered, and get tiddly.



Sir Alan: You’re Hired!

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: News

Sir Alan Sugar is one of the UK’s favourite TV personalities, humiliating and crushing the dreams of pretentious, often idiotic, wannabe city boys and girls.



Bells and balls

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: News

If you were wandering around central London on Saturday, you may have imagined you saw an awful lot of naked cyclists for one afternoon. Don’t panic, you weren’t hallucinating – hundreds of naked cyclists took part in World Naked Bike Ride.
The event was organised to protest against oil dependency and car culture, and it’s the [...]



What’s that ticking sound?

By Lydia Mossahebi • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: News

An army bomb disposal team exploded a 500-pound WWII German warhead on Friday, after discovering the bomb at the future Olympic site on Monday.
The bomb was discovered by construction workers while working on the site near Bethnal Green.
Simon Saunders, a spokesman for the British Army’s London district made the concise and accurate assertion that the [...]



Buskers on the underground lose sponsors

By Lydia Mossahebi • May 29th, 2008 • Category: News

Capital 95.8 and thelondonpaper have decided not to renew their contract to sponsor legal busking spots on the underground, leaving buskers’ stages in limbo.
CBS outdoor, the company which manages advertising on the underground, are currently seeking new sponsorship for the legal busking spots, which were previously supported by Carling. TfL have been running the scheme [...]



Shop review: Frock Me!

By Lydia Mossahebi • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Daylife, Shops

Lydia Mossahebi finds you have to be willing to rummage to get beautiful vintage clothes at the Frock Me! fair in Chelsea.



Fancy a private showing of the crown jewels?

By Lydia Mossahebi • May 19th, 2008 • Category: News

Londoners with a bit of extra cash in their pockets can pay to see some of the most elusive areas of the capital.