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Hello, Goodbye

Happy New Year to everyone from the Music Dungeonistas. We trust you found solace in some decent music while ‘Best ofs’ and Reality TV Rubbish polluted tweeters, woofers and sub-woofers over the break. In a bizarre collision of mainstream and alternative, we spent New Year’s …

Piss Pisses PCs Off

With every night out comes a dilemma: do you try to make it through the night without visiting the loo, waiting for oh-so-sha-weeeet relief when you get home, or do you relieve yourself just before your journey home and pop the seal, risking further leakage …

Service With A Snarl

Think the service at your local chippie’s bad? Well, reassure yourself that paying more money to eat at a top notch restaurant doesn’t guarantee you any more civility, according to the latest Square Meal restaurant guide survey. The five worst restaurants for service, based on …

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College Serves Notice on University

Imperial College held its vote about leaving the University of London today and, after years of mutterings, has finally served notice that it will leave the University of London. As we said a few weeks ago, losing the science, technology and medicine college is a …

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Ken: Sunday Sunday

During the course of Editro threatening torture to my cats to get me to write this ‘perfect Sunday’ post, I was tempted to leave the entry blank. My perfect Sunday in London, after all, involves doing not very much at all. As someone in the …

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Gig Review: Elbow, Brixton Academy

Starting with, for us, the best track on their latest album, Station Approach, and ending on the second-best, Forget Myself, Elbow took Brixton by storm last night, and not for the first time. The feeling is, however, that this time they deserved it all the …

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Antony And The Johnsons Gig On Sunday

Just a quickie, to share with you the details of a competition you can enter to win tickets to an exclusive Antony and the Johnsons gig taking place on Sunday at a secret venue in London. To be in with a chance of winning a …

Government Agency Threat To University of London

Debates about the future of the federal University of London have been going on since Londonist was a mere slip of a tax-dodger at the LSE, about three stones lighter and a touch over a decade ago, and we dare say those debates were taking …

Clapham Junction Line-Side Fire

Commiserations to those of you reading this in the office, having struggled through a route involving Clapham Junction. We gather the journey must have been difficult, following a line-side fire early this morning. The fire’s knocked out some of the signalling and, according to XFM’s …

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Borough Market’s Food Centre Of Excellence

Foodies’ favourite, Borough Market (warning: there’s some sound clips on the official site when you first enter it, so turn the volume down if you’re at work), launches a fund-raising appeal today, to help build a Food School of Excellence. The Borough Market Trust are …