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Led Zepp: History in the Re-Making
Today, in the evening, Led Zeppelin are showing us a whole lotta love by bringing it on home. Instead of going to California, or even over the hills and far away to Kashmir, their first reunion rock...
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London Climate Change Rally
You may have noticed the streets were very crowded in central London on Saturday but this wasn’t a pre-emptive swipe at the shops for early Christmas shopping – it was London’s participation in a...
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Tuesday TfL News Round Up
Langdon Park DLR station opened yesterday, to initially no fanfare, until Ken turned up with some free Oyster cards. Diamond Geezer has blogged in heartfelt detail about the “shiny alien mothership”...
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*Triple Cringe* Tomorrow
Forgive us for suggesting you go a venue two nights in a row, but tomorrow night but this sounds ace, if painful. Tomorrow is the latest installment of Cringe London. Based on a New York idea (of...
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Santa’s Lap: Arty Memberships
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and...
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Crisis Skills Crisis
We all know that there is an alternative to the traditional stuck with the family and mired in food and booze Christmas we moan about on an annual basis. But it takes quite a lot to change habits and...
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Yule Love It
Our friends at the South East London Folklore Society (SELFS) will be hailing and celebrating Yule tonight with a good old fashioned game of pin the tail on the Yule Cat. There will also be beer,...
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Santa’s Lap: Beer at hand!
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and...
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Brit, Shit And Skit Art News
Damien Hirst has made the Tate’s Christmas by gifting them 4 of his art works. The infamous cow and calf bisected and suspended in formaldehyde, “Mother and Child Divided” is the Turner Prize winning...
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Team Nice Gets Political
This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 29. Bystander Eageration… After being made redundant the other week, I was offered some work by a...
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Weekend Round-Up
This is what we have learnt this weekend whilst you have been making your mince pies: The tube link to Heathrow Airport is celebrating its 30th birthday. Appalling teenage violence continues. Perhaps...
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Monday Miscellanea
This Week In London’s History Monday – 17th December 1983: An IRA car bomb explodes near Harrods in Knightsbridge, killing six people (including three police officers) and injuring a further 85...
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Pete Doherty Becomes 2012 Medal Hope
Pete Doherty wants to run the London marathon. We’re sure many people will sneer at this idea, what with Pete’s history of performance restricting drugs, his post-rehab bloatedness, and his jaunty hat,...
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Chugging Up To Manchester For A Fiver
Londonist went on a sojourn to Manchester recently, and loved the place. Home of iconic bands, incessant rain, pretty canals, and some of Britain’s most interesting modern architecture outside London,...
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Londonist Stays In
It’s the week before Christmas, and like us, you’re probably panicking because you’ve still got loads of shopping to do. If you have a spare night when you’re not out at wild and crazy office...
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Save Our Pits And Pickle Factories, Finally The Government Steps In
The Rainbow is long gone, the Hammersmith Palais now lingers only in the memory and even that good old grubby beer stained shit-hole that is the loveable Astoria is under threat. Gigs are selling out...
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Pigeon Vigil In Trafalgar Square
Remember the pigeon feeding turf wars of 2006? Well, the Pigeon Action Group are back in the news. A candlelit vigil was held at midday today on Trafalgar Square’s north terrace (in daylight?) to...
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Extra Extra: reminds-us-of-something-else edition
Straight out of Steptoe and Son – bogus bin men bag bonuses. Straight out of a Whitehall farce – illegal immigrant home office worker to be deported. Straight out of a Bond movie – driverless people...
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Take The Special Bus: East London Line Closure
Heads up people: the East London Line closes this Saturday. It will undergo a magical transformation that will take rather a long time but the line will reemerge from a 3 year chrysalis as a beautiful...
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Santa’s Lap: Cycling Pants
Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and...
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