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Friday Film News

This week: Proof, Lady Vengeance, and Final Destination 3. Plus all the usual news and rumours. Bloody hell, Jake Gyllenhaal again! We’ve typed his name so many times in the past few weeks that we can actually spell it correctly without having to check Google. …

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Londonist Stalks…Charles Barry

There can be few buildings in Europe to match the splendor of the Palace of Westminster. Millions of tourists, some of them off-worlders, flock to the landmark each year, even if few actually enter. But a couple of weeks back (and sorry to keep going …

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Romantic Love-Nest For Sale

That’s “Romantic” with a capital “R”, by the way. Paris has had its fair share – more than, even – of starving writers and poets living in garrets and subsisting on raw pigeon and the certainty that they are writing Deathless Prose that will Echo …

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Extra, Extra

At 2:30 this afternoon Bob Crow will hold a press conference at RMT headquarters to announce the ballot result of 1,500 Tube drivers. A Romanian Airlines Boeing 737 on its way to London has had to make an emergency landing in Brussels due to a …

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Extra, Extra

The Met are being questioned over why no arrests were made during protests outside the Danish Embassy on Friday after threatening slogans were chanted and some protestors dressed as suicide bombers. An incredible article from yesterday’s Sunday Times, by Richard Hoskins, lecturer in African religions …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week How To Grow Trees, at Gresham College Wikipedia has an amusingly impenetrable outlook when it comes …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Pure Iceland at the Science Museum Given the cheesy promotional video and the long list of …

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Cogito Ergo Summary: Your Weekly Science Listings

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Bio-Bling: Bone jewellery, at the Dana Centre This one really is as creepy as it sounds. …

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New Bands 2006 : Boy Kill Boy

As far as new bands for 2006, one band we are totally loving so far are Leytonstone based Boy Kill Boy. Chris Peck (vocals, guitar), Peter Carr (keyboards), Kevin Chase (bass) and Shaz (drums) make up the band that were making lots of noise in …

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War Games Screening

No not Mathew Broderick and Joshua – we’re talking again about the great documentary that we reviewed back in June. There’s a chance to see it in a couple of weeks for FREE, but tickets are going FAST so please book right now. Over to …

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9 out of 10 pollutants prefer a cab

Every now and again we ask old grandmother Londonist for a little extra pocket money* so we can take a cab and laugh at all the people struggling with ticket machines as we whiz across the city knocking pedestrians and cyclists asunder like they were …