Archive for November, 2006

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London gets a Sniping Camper

After watching the recent Make Love, Not Warcraft episode of South Park there is no way we are ever going anywhere near a MMORPG, but we find typing out MMORPG oddly satisfying. Now we can link up the MMORPG blog with news about the MMORPG …

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Gang of New York

We know New Yorkers can be brash, but this is ridiculous: “They were armed with two imitation guns and a meat cleaver, and bound the youngster’s mother hand and foot and gagged her.” He said that despite searching the place for cash, they could find …

Extra, Extra

London has overtaken Paris to become the city with Europe’s best jobs outlook.. It’s not often you hear this phrase but due to the UK’s “better weather conditions”, a friendly between Australia and Denmark will be held at QPR next year. A strange one. Today …

Not quite the Orient Express

Following on from yesterday’s Was it good for you? here is Tube diners from the same YouTuber: Nice. And it’s all connected with this mob.

Photo of the Day

Yuki‘s night park is beautiful yet still manages to give us a little chill. In a city so large and full of life it’s scary to think of all the nooks and crannies that it’s possible to feel so alone in…

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears (almost) every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. STOP THE PRESS: We have a late edition to the list, “Golden Handcuffs – Scandals, Drugs & Lies” by Polly Courtney is being launched …

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Kids are still stupid

Goddamn kids with their scary hoods and slang that makes us feel old. In our day we were happy with Manic Miner, but these days its all PSP this and GTA that… and now the little buggers are popping pills and driving all over the …

Interview: Tom Wright, Director iAy Carmela! At The Shaw Theatre

Faithful to its abundant exclamation points, new play iAy Carmela! opens tonight, at the Shaw Theatre in Kings Cross, with a gala event. As we like to grab all opportunities by the balls, we catch director Tom Wright (above right, being grabbed by the balls) …

Please Stand By

One of us is off in a different time zone again and it looks like he fed our cute little Mogwai-server way after midnight London time and then spilled water on the offspring resulting in a green scaly technical headache. We should be back up …

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Touch Up London #22

Few would have suspected that the London Eye harbours a transdimensional wormhole. Including the crew of the NCC 1701, who stumbled through the anomaly, only to collide with Portcullis House (not pictured). Image may not be based on actual events. Background photo taken from The …