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Londonist Live: Thistletown @ St Aloysius Social Club

If the Guardian hadn’t given Will Hodgkinson £5000 to start a record label then Londonist wouldn’t be spending Friday night in a folk club in Euston. But we’re here for the album launch of Rosemarie, the debut long-player from new young folkers, Thistletown. Strangely the …

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Trouble Brewing: Network Rail Axe Fairtrade Company?

Londonist arrived at work a few days ago to hear some distressing news: AMT, which only serves 100% Fairtrade coffee to its punters, appears to have lost the contract from Network Rail for their outlets at ten of London’s major railway stations. The company that …

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Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse

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 …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week’s “Segway Mom” and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It’s not West Side Story, but about as close as they’ll get. They’re also still waiting on some …

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God Bless George Galloway

That’s not sarcasm, we mean it most sincerely. So sincerely in fact that we’re going to write it again… in capital letters. GOD BLESS GEORGE GALLOWAY. Amen to that. Why do we love George so much? Well for a start if it weren’t for George …

The Marathon – All You Need To Know

With the 25th London Marathon taking place on Sunday we thought we’d give you a few of the most useful and interesting links we could find to put you in the long-distance frame of mind. First off, obviously, it’s the official site which, among other …