Tag: London

  • London gets set to really clean up

    London gets set to really clean up

    Imagine picking up soggy cigarette butts people carelessly flick to the ground and making a tally of each one. Some Londoners make a habit of it. And they’re willing to collect and count more than just butts. Plastic bags, bottle caps, coffee cups and soda cans also form part of the fun. Each year, they participate in…

  • Campout For A Cause

    Campout For A Cause

    “It devastated our chapter and we started to realize that this was something that was extremely underrepresented in terms of our social consciousness,” said Vandan Jhaveri, head coordinator of the Austen Berlet Campout (ABC) for Mental Health. Austen Berlet, a member of Phi Gamma Delta, committed suicide in 2009. “We felt it was kind of…

  • Rock n roll lives on in Electric Revival

    Rock n roll lives on in Electric Revival

    They came, they rocked. And there was no one there to hear it. Three piece retro-rock act Electric Revival pumped out some good old fashioned rock n’ roll Thursday night at the APK. They’re not the only band to come to town for a meagre crowd, and they won’t be the last. Frontman Ian Dillon brushed…

  • Forgot about play: London’s theatre community celebrates forgotten art

    Forgot about play: London’s theatre community celebrates forgotten art

    Shakespeare once wrote “All the world’s a stage,” and today that’s never been more true. March 27 commemorates World Theatre Day, a global celebration by theatre communities. Created in 1961 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Theatre Day’s goal is to celebrate the “power of theatre,” according to its official…