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Over the coming weeks Londonist will be presenting some helpful guides to the festive season. Stuff like buying presents, making the food, what to drink, how to win the annual family argument…that kind of thing. Today we kick off with a guide to buying present …

Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word ‘shambles’ was entirely appropriate. If you’d rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes …

The Evening Standard reports that the Tube are compiling a “list of shame” to identify the stations with the greatest number of incidents involving drunk and abusive passengers. Looking at last year’s List of Shame throws up an interesting anomaly. While there is no surprise …

Being the media whores that we are, we normally wait until we receive a promo copy before reviewing music but Londonist was so entranced at The Magic Numbers gig last week that we found ourselves fighting our way to the merchandise stall to buy Hymn …

Londonist was drawn to an article in The Guardian today with the Ronseal-esque headline Want to feel less stress? Become a fighter pilot, not a commuter. Viewers of the BBC’s The Stress Test will be familiar with the measurement of cortisol as an indicator of …

The devastating news this week is that Vanilla Ice has had to cancel his gig with Wolfpac at the Electric Ballroom tomorrow night. To help you get over the blow here’s a few other things which might just help fill the void. (We try not …

We were planning on reviewing The Pipettes’ headlining gig at Rendition tonight but a change of plans led to Londonist going to see them at The Borderline last night, where they were supporting The Magic Numbers (err, left). Londonist’s favourite word used to be serendipity …

And talking of vote rigging… Schoolboy errors abounded at the weekend as the XFM Rock School‘s online vote was rigged. One error came from XFM’s technical end, as the ‘one person, one vote’ setting was overcome with ease. Another came from the bands rigging the …

If, like Londonist, you were out of our beloved capital last week, wondering what on earth the white stuff falling from the sky was (before anyone says it: no, we weren’t in the jungle with Sophie Anderton) you might like to reacquaint yourself with more …