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Township Stories at Theatre Royal, Stratford East

Township Stories opens tonight at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East after a successful run in the Edinburgh Festival and is the kind of play that reviewers cannot help but describe with words like “sordid underbelly” and “gritty” and “contemporary urban realism.” This new play about …

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The Cameras On The Bus Go Round And Round

Here’s one for the uber-nerds out there. Digitally Distributed Environments, one of our fave London blogs, have put together a 360 degree, zoomable panorama of a London red bus (requires Quicktime…and an unhealthy fascination with omnibuses). Experience the glamour and luxury of the transport we …

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Club-ist: We Are Your Friends

The clubbing part of Londonist are about to jump in a car and head down to dance to Sasha and only the bloody Pet Shop Boys at Bestival (thanks to everyone who entered our competition to win tickets, but you should have read the date …

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The bank holiday Gatwick Express strike is off as is the Stansted baggage handlers strike. News International are going to launch the London Paper a fortnight early to get it out ahead of Associated Newspapers’ London Lite. Does anyone still care about this? Computer games …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. You’ll have to forgive this week’s list for being so slight, all the cool literati types are on holiday, it’s only the hacks like us …

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The man shot during the Forest Gate anti-terror ‘accident’ has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making child abuse images. In London radio news, Magic FM is top of the pops while Capital are the…erm, bottom of the pops? Roy Greenslade over at the …

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It’s a great day when you can wake up to this headline: Ferrari will not be Tories’ mayor. According a study by Loughborough University of 112,000 crimes in London last year, Nokia phones are the thing most likely to get nicked. The Guardian news blog …

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Cogito Ergo Summary

This column appears every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com OK, so we lied last week when we said the column was in summer recess. Sorry. Although there aren’t many …

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Where To Go For Mayor News

Next years’ Mayoral election should be quite interesting, what with the Conservative’s ‘Tory Idol’ style candidate selection process and all of Ken’s recent (ahem) ‘publicity’. But don’t expect Londonist to keep you up-to-date every step of the way, we’ve got out hands full writing about …

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Dos Hermanos

We like our restaurant/bar review blogs with plenty of photos and a generous dollop of detail here at Londonist so when we came across Dos Hermanos we tucked right in. You just can’t have a food review blog without pictures of the food. It’s alright …

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Ken Versus Nick?

Could the man pictured on your right be Ken Livingstone’s next contender for the position of Mayor of London? If the politcial blogs are to be believed, then he just might well be. His name is Nicholas Boles, and as well as being Director of …