Archive for October, 2005

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Miamist – What A Day To Launch An -ist

This week sees another USist site join the fold: Miamist. Now, we thought Miamist had enough problems deciding whether or not to double up the letter I at the end of their name (Miam-ist or Miamee-ist?) But then hurricane Wilma struck and, to be honest …

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National Energy Saving Week

It’s time to give the batteries a rest and let your fingers do the walking this week – National Energy Saving Week is upon us. The Energy Saving Trust would like to see us adopting multiple energy saving measures to help reduce 20% of our …

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London Gets Kubrick Archives

Result! The extensive archives of Stanley Kubrick will be housed at the University of the Arts as of next summer. The Observer reported over the weekend that the University will be building a new centre to house the vast collection (in Elephant & Castle no …

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New July 7 Arrest

There are a lot of questionable addresses to be found in the Londonist browser history, but we had good reason in sinking to a new low yesterday when we typed in www.newsoftheworld.co.uk. It seems that the tabloid helped finger a 27 year old man in …

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Extra, Extra

- Over the weekend, two men were charged with the murder of Jody Dobrowski. – A student pilot and his instructor were killed on Saturday when their small plane crashed on the outskirts of South London (Biggin Hill). – Gun crime in Islington has gone …

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Booking Ahead

A heavy duty start to this week’s new listings with Brazilian thrash titans Soulfly, getting some kind of cheesy Londonist thumbs up of the week, back over here on the 7th February at the Astoria to pummel some heads with their excellent new Dark Ages …

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Friday Premiership Preview

It has been a fine week indeed for London’s Champion League representatives, with both Arsenal and Chelsea sitting pretty at the top of their groups and the prospect of qualification for the knock-out phase seemingly secure. Chelsea seem to be repeating exactly the same pattern …

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Fruit And Effing Nut Case

It happens to almost every couple at some stage: she goes on whatever diet is in fashion, he harrumphs and tries to prove a point by eating even lardier food, and eating together at home, let alone out at a restaurant, is nigh on impossible. …

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An Open Letter to Google Maps

Londonist loves Google Maps. We love the drag-to-scroll feature, we love the way it finds businesses given just a name, we love the satellite images. All in all, decidedly superior to its competitors. So whom do we tell about this? And this? Any other bizarre …

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Friday Film News

This week: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Broken Flowers and Into The Blue. Kicking off this week then with more half-term, stop-animation goodness in the form of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride The film gets three stars from Pete Bradhsaw who thinks it will be “best be …