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Er, that is, we mean Heartwarming Kitten news, of course… So two weeks ago Londonist told you about a miraculous kitten. Today, as we open our copy of the Walthamstow Guardian, we discover a story with exactly the same headline, with one word changed: Kitten …

Long ago, let’s say, in the 1950s and before, the gay population of London created, under unimaginable duress, a remarkably rich subculture, involving unique spaces, rituals, and languages all invisible (by necessity) to the society at large. By some accounts, all that came to an …

Many years ago — Londonist can’t even remember how many — we found ourselves in a tiny recital hall on a provincial university campus somewhere. Benjamin Bagby walked on stage, alone, with a six-stringed lyre. He proceeded to recite, from memory, all of Book One …

The scientists who will be filling the British Library for their meat market Beautiful Minds Mingle will probably not be the most, um, fashion-conscious people in London. In fact, most people who enter the British Library probably aren’t in the running for any best-dressed awards. …

Our beloved mayor Ken has written an opinion piece in the most recent Pink Paper (STILL no proper website — we’re going to keep reminding them until they sort this out.) Since we figure most of you don’t pick up the Pink Paper on a …

You know what Londonist loves? Londonist loves those free newspapers that appear unbidden through our letter slot every now and then. Although most of the pages are filled with real estate ads, the half-dozen pages of local news thrown in to make the publication look …

Everyone drinks on a Saturday — it’s practically required. Drinking on, say, a Tuesday afternoon probably means that you’re an alcoholic. But drinking on a Sunday afternoon? It manages to be both decadent and civilised, just louche enough without being irresponsible. You can pretend, for …

Christmas is just around the corner, and signs of the festive season are cropping up all over, from the jolly garlands that were put up in our local Superdrug sometime in the middle of October, to non-denominational holiday illuminations hopefully not flicked on by convicted …

Regular readers will already know that George Galloway is not really one of our favourite people. Well, if you needed another reason to feel a little icky about his particular brand of over-inflated personality politics, he now stands accused of dropping gay rights out of …

The subject of our most recent ENO review, Anthony Minghella’s Madame Butterfly is officially a smash hit — it is completely sold out (although, as ever, standing room and day tickets go on sale at 10 am, and there are always released tickets to be …