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Occupy Branches Out To Finsbury Square

Anti-capitalist protest discovers second site.

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Dance Review: The Place Prize Final 2011

We have a winner: masturbation, tango, wrestling and fake orgasms win audience and expert approval.

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Bloomberg To Get New London HQ?

Bloomberg media group are expected to build new HQ on the site of Bucklersbury House in the City. Will it still look like Darth Vader’s helmet, as in original plans for the site?

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Preview: The Place Prize 2008

Fortunate enough to bag sponsorship from Bloomberg, The Place Prize is a biennial contemporary dance competition which commissions 20 British choreographers to create brand new work and compete for a £25k prize based on both professional opinion and a popular audience vote. Bloomberg’s financial clout …

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McGregor As Iago – Come On Critics, What Is The Verdict?

Bitterness aside (yes, we too were not on the pulse fast enough to bag tickets before their price sky-rocketed), we are rather enjoying the bitch fight that is ‘should Ewan McGregor have been cast as Iago in the Donmar Warehouse’s production of Othello?’ Bloomberg, while …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We’re not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here’s what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes’ exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest …

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London/New York Rivalry Stops (Well, Temporarily)

New York and London have always had a bit of rivalry going on, about who’s best. In recent times, London seems to have got the edge – New York’s Mayor, for example, expressed worries that London was moving ahead as the world’s financial centre. And …

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 …

Elsewhere in the Ist-iverse

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news …