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News From Around The Ist-a-verse

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying– that’s two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline…can’t forget about Kevin Federline. That’s three great tastes in one. -Chicagoist celebrated the election news but cried in their …

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Friday Film News

This week – A documentary about Mongolian nomads (The Cave of the Yellow Dog), a music documentary about a hip hop concert in Brooklyn (Dave Chapelle’s Block Party) and a teeny flick with Lyndsey Lohan and McFly (Just My Luck) You know that it is …

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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Just a quick reminder to let you know that Bollocks to Alton Towers came out in paperback this week. From the same people who brought you the Framley Examiner BtAT is a journey across Britain to find “small, fascinating, unique” days out. As well as …

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Pennies From Heaven

How many Londonist readers who’ve never thought of buying a lottery ticket in their lives before have found themselves tempted in the recent weeks by the obscenely escalating Euro Millions jackpot (estimated prize this week: £125,000,000). And how many of you have actually went out …

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Monday Music Review

And so it was decreed that on the 23rd day of January after having taken Christmas off to let the punters indulge themselves in X-Factor winners and soft rock compilation albums, proper music would rise again from the ashes of the yule fireplace, shake out …

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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. Okay, so there still doesn’t seem to be too much going on in the publishing world. However, at least this week, what little there is …