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Preview: Angels Retro Sale

Angels are at it again. The theatrical and TV costumier is running another huge sale at its Wembley warehouse. After the military sale late last year, they’re opening the doors on their collection of retro fashion on Saturday 6 Feb. Be prepared to sharpen your …

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Music Choice: Monday 20th August – Friday 24th

As bands jump across the Atlantic to play this weekend’s V Festival and next weekend’s Reading and Leeds festivals London is treated to a wealth of bands that rarely play these shores. Here’s a selection of the best. Monday night sees the amazing Rilo Kiley …

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Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big — really freaking big — so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart …

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Music: Ticket Alerts For Friday 11 May

Lots of big events and comebacks on sale tomorrow, so we’ll jump straight in: First up as some of you may be aware Prince has announced 21 shows throughout the summer in London, including 8 nights at the O2 arena, playing on Wednesday 1st, Friday …

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Tuesday Tree Trauma

Trees don’t often hit the news. We pay scant attention to these oxygen giving, living, blooming, wooden angels that line our streets, populate our excellent woodlands and seasonally give us conkers to play with. What heart-warming joy, then, to hear about Londoners who care. First …

Elsewhere In The Ist-iverse

This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network …

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Football: Bromley v Tooting – Winner Takes London

Chelsea and Arsenal have both won it in the past, but this year’s London Senior Cup, premier competition of the London Football Association, will be fought over by Bromley FC and Tooting & Mitcham United who, as it happens, are also staging the final at …

Elsewhere In The Ist-iverse

We don’t know about where you are, but it seems like spring can’t decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren’t sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still …

News From Around The Ist-A-Verse

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we’re sensational, but it’s very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we’ve decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite …

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TV Classics Clothing At Auction Today

If you are after a new spring wardrobe and have a bit of cash to spend on some new outfits now the season is about to change, you’ve got today to bid for your favourite velvet cape and long stripy woollen scarf combination at Bonhams …

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Baby Blum: Deceased

The oddest story we’ve stumbled across in a while: The body of a baby has lain in a mortuary for 20 years because his parents refuse to accept the official cause of death. A pathologist told the parents of Christopher Blum that he died of …