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Last Minute Listing: Poker Night At The Roxy

OK, we keep banging on about the Roxy Bar and screen on Borough High Street. But that’s because it’s a superb venue with a bottomless wine cooler of events. Following on from the recent martinis-all-round screening of a Quantum of Nonsense, the Roxy tonight put …

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Alternative Pub Crawls: Science

Monopoly pub crawl? Boring. Circle Line pub crawl? Banned. It’s high time someone developed a few new drinking tours around the capital. We started off with a sojourn around the variable boozers of London’s train stations. Our conclusion? Nice, grim, grim, oooo, not so grim, …

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Football: A Euro 2008 Odyssey

Over the last few years it has become popular to enjoy football matches in the pub, rather than at the stadiums themselves. This is even more true of the often far-flung international summer tournaments and increasingly people want to watch each match alongside supporters who …

Cointreau Caviar

If a few months from now you’re sipping a cocktail at one of London’s trendier cocktail bars and you notice a few squishy gold flecked bubbly pearls floating around in your glass, don’t be alarmed; that’s just Cointreau Caviar. Yes, Londonist has seen (and sipped) …

Accessing Wheelchair Accessible London?

A man rolls into a bar. Sounds like the start of a dumb joke? It’s not. Wheelchair-enabled people like going out in the evening as much as anybody. What does appear to be a joke is how difficult it can be to find info about …

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London On The Cheap

Doesn’t sunshine make everything seem better? Alright, it’s been brass monkeys but nothing lifts the winter blues like bright skies, crisp air and early daffodils. It’s half term for most kids this week so your commute might even be more pleasant. In which case, perhaps …

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Santa’s Lap: Arty Memberships

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

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Live Review: Josh Rouse @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire 9/12/07

Josh Rouse might not be a well-known name, but he fills the Shepherd’s Bush Empire with ease tonight. In fact everything seems to come naturally to him, from the relaxed shuffle onstage to his casually turned-out country-pop gems. Opening the bill is Sweden’s Jens Lekman, …

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Widdecombe In The Clink

Ann Widdecombe MP was arrested outside the Houses of Parliament yesterday and taken to the Clink Prison where bail was set at £35,000. The fact that she was already wearing prison uniform when she got nicked hinted at the possibility that this was a charitable …

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Crime Pays. Apparently.

London woman embezzles 4.3 million from her (patently rather stupid) employers, eventually gets caught and sentenced to 7 years in jail, gets out after 3, gets to keep her swanky ill-gottenly gained apartment and lands a plum job in the arts (albeit for a prison …

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Arrivals: Celebrating St Pancras International

Unless there were leaves on the line, not enough station staff, delays at Paris holding everything up or industrial action on either side of the Channel, the first Eurostar train should be pulling into its new station at St Pancras this morning. We’ve had a …