Archive for June, 2008

Drink-ography: Drunk dog by thisisp

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Preview: Tapas Fantasticas 2008

As if you crazy kids required yet another reason to rub elbows on hipster row (aka Brick Lane), Tapas Fantasticas 2008 will be on this Saturday and Sunday at Ely’s Yard round the back of the Old Truman Brewery. Dubbed a celebration of Spanish food, …

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Tube Security Gets Teeth

As the third anniversary of July 7th approaches, new security measures aimed at preventing another terrorist attack have been unveiled by the Department for Transport and British Transport Police. Airport-style x-ray machines (complete with saturnine operators) are to be introduced at certain Tube and mainline …

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I Could Have Danced All Night: ICA Nightclub Preview

When an event is portrayed as a night of “unbridled hedonism,” it behooves us to sit up and take note. Tomorrow’s Nightclub event will bear witness to the ICA being overrun by a DJ roundup so impressive, it’s enough to make any electro enthusiast salivating …

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Preview: School of Language

School of Language is out this summer touring the UK and is making a stop in London tonight. The current focus of Field Music’s David Brewis will be making an appearance at the once-monthly club night Tapestry at the St Aloysius Social Club near Euston. …

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Screw Somerset, Love London

If you’ve not headed off to a muddy field in Somerset but still want some live music this weekend, then fear not! There are plenty of muddy fields in London to enjoy instead. Twickenham is the place of action for Bon Jovi fans today and …

Food-ography: Never Licked by mydearboy

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Rats vs. Worms: Fight, Fight, Fight!

We turn now to Lambeth, a borough with a proud pugilistic tradition, where an epic battle is raging between two of nature’s most tenacious talents: Rattus rattus, or the black rat, and Lumbricus Terrestris, otherwise known as the humble earthworm. Sadly for fight-fans everywhere, the …

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Fire In Edgware Road Flats

Fire broke out in mansion flats on Edgware Road this morning just before 6am. Residents were evacuated and the road closed while 40 firefighters rescued people from the 8th floor and the roof and got the blaze under control. Thankfully, no one else was involved …

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London Is In A Bit Of A State

It turns out that, contrary to popular media opinion, politics is alive and well with our great capital’s young. Last night we squeezed into the State of London Debate, an event at Central Hall Westminster hosted by Boris Johnson and his team. A ticket did …