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Week Around the -Ists

Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye. Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city’s only English-language paper. Gothamist believed that a …

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city’s attempt to …

Elsewhere In The Ist-a-verse

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts — okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles — now that’s a …

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Free Range 2007: 21st June – 25th June

This week, get yourself down to Free Range to see some of the best exhibitions from UK’s finest students. Seamless Who? Loughborough University School of Art and Design (Textiles) What? DESIGN (2D & 3D) Where? Boiler House University of Westminster Photography Degree Show 2007 Who? …

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Smoke & Mirrors

1940 St. Paul’s is hit by bombs. One myth of the Battle of Britain was that St Paul’s Cathedral remained untouched (Churchill had insisted on it). However, the cathedral was hit on this day in 1940 (and again on April 17th 1941) and the Choir …

Extra, Extra

Three more men have been arrested concerning the the deaths of brothers Mohammad and Hayder Ali in Tooting over the weekend. London will be home to the ‘world’s largest restaurant‘ come 2012 (in order to feed the 24,000+ athletes, coaches and officials). There’s also talk …

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Extra, Extra

A former communications officer and a former parliamentary researcher appeared at Bow Street magistrates’ court yesterday to face charges under the Official Secrets Act over the leaking of the ‘bomb al-Jazeera’ document. The men who are most likely to pay for sex are apparently those …

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Londonist Stalks…Mr Charles Dickens

And, by God, did he get around. Stalking Paolozzi was a piece of cake in comparison. The map above is our stab at showing all Dickens’ London addresses. But sources conflict, and there’s bound to be a few missing. During his childhood, Dickens hopped from …