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If you’re like us and were either too slow or too apathetic to try and get tickets to the Star Wars Geek-A-Thon marathon next Monday, then you still have a chance to test your blagging skills on Sunday morning: The last Cast and Crew screening …

TheForce.Net are reporting that they have their hands on an anonymous memo a press release stating that a massive Star Wars event will take place in and around Leicester Square on May 16th, three days before the first public showings of Episode III: For the …

Certain of the Londonist contingent who shall remain nameless spent an entertaining Thursday morning on constant redial to the ever-engaged Chelsea ticket line, in hopes of securing a precious pair of tickets to the last (and most important) Champions League match to be held in …

Londonist hereby puts forward the Two Kinds Of Gig Theory: There are gigs you go to knowing pretty much what to expect. Then there are those gigs you go to on a whim, in the hope of seeing something genuinely unique, something that you can …

We here at the Londonist are never averse to a bit of guerrilla marketing, provided it’s done cleverly and unobtrusively. It warms our hipster hearts to see giant, faceless advertising firms reaching out to Da Kidz through subversive (and occasionally subliminal) means. However, we find …

Londonist (well, at least three of us) were privileged enough to pop along to the resurgent Camden Crawl, which capitalised on Camden’s indie scene rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its post-Britpop implosion. Overall we were well impressed with the variety of talent …

Londonist had a jaunt around Piccadilly and the Strand chasing the perfect photos for The Way We See It today, which was fun and frustrating all at the same time. Fun, because of the concept of the site (everyone has their own take on how …

So it looks like “London” is a four-letter word in a certain rival European capital. The mayor of Paris has begun a campaign against “La Londonisation“, his term for the rubber-stamp commoditising of the High Street, destruction of small businesses, and the driving out of …

So you’re standing there on the Tube, seething with rage after having changed trains three times due to a Job-like trial of passenger action, faulty trains and general incompetence on the part of London Underground Limited, and having just suffered a twelve minute intra-tunnel endurance …

While some would say that Camden never lost the indie rock vibe, it would be hard to deny that the goth kids and the nu-metal tweenies (yes, you there with the Staind shirt) have run rampant there for the last couple of years, and that …