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Torontoist discovered their city’s most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. Chicago tragically loses one of its most recognizable neighborhood icons, the pigeon man of Lincoln Square. LAPD leaves

Hooray! It’s nearly Halloween! Jack-o-lanterns a plenty, scary masks and annoying trick or treaters who get hyped up on way too many e-numbers (and probably a few cans of cider nowadays). Still, there’s so much stuff going on this year, you’d be a fool to …

13. The Horror Of Berkeley Square Over a century ago, No. 50 Berkeley Square, W1 was London’s most famous haunted house. Some of the residents to have lived on the street are William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham (No. 6), Horace Walpole (No. 11) and …

Happy Father’s Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one’s for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge …

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 …

The Constellation Change Film Festival is all about showcasing dance on film and opens jazz hand style on Monday with the classic musical “West Side Story”. People who don’t like musicals like “West Side Story” and we reckon it will be cracking on the big …

The New York Times has a quirky little article about ‘affordable’ things to do in London. A good rule of thumb is “if it costs a dollar in New York, it costs a pound in London” (though, of course, there are nearly two dollars in …

Brian Haw appeared in court today for breaching conditions over his demonstration outside the Palace of Westminster (i.e. his placards exceed an area of 3m by 1m). The case has been adjourned for the defence to apply for a ‘judicial review of the conditions imposed …

We can’t claim that pun as our own. It’s the work of Berkeley Homes bloke Mark Dickinson. That’s his colourful description for a new glowing box that’s just been unveiled near Borough Tube. The brownfield beacon sits atop a tower block in Tabard Square, a …

You will be ex-ter-min-a-ted. That’s what Southwark Council and various pressure groups would like to say to the proposed Berkeley Homes development ‘twixt City Hall and Tower Bridge. But John ‘Girth’ Prescott has decided, as is his wont, to grant planning permission anyway. The move …