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It’s The End Of The Tour As We Know It

REM – Hyde Park, Saturday 16th July Michael Stipe, shaved of head, bare of chest and crushed by eyeliner stands grinning on stage, arms around his bandmates of 25 years, Peter Buck and Mike Mills. The three of them look exhausted but genuinely happy. They …

Friday Film News

Whether you like it or not, the film release everyone’s talking about this week is Mr & Mrs Smith. We don’t really need to explain why do we? Unless you’ve been on Mars for the past month you can’t have missed the Brad/Angelina gossip that’s …

Cup Final Frenzy

To be honest, the build-up to the FA Cup Final on Saturday hasn’t quite reached ‘frenzy’ status yet, but at least it seems to be progressing beyond ‘mildly agitated’ and ‘a bit miffed’. Sigh….how Londonist yearns for the ‘good old days’, when the whole country …

Confessions Of A Parking Attendant

If you’re a London Motorist, you’re probably a very angry person. It seems that every recent initiative is designed to stop you being able to drive your car where you want, at what speed you want, and heaven forbid you should want to park anywhere …

Weekend Football Roundup

Mido. Sounds like a continental supermarket chain. Or maybe Sweden’s entry in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. But no, Mido is neither of things. In fact, Mido is Spurs’ new Egyptian striker (The Sun headline writers must be rubbing their hands with glee…), a player …

The Murdoch School Of Journalism

Londonist can sometimes see why we journalists get a bad name. A quick surf of even today’s newspapers will see that Brian Drysdale, “48”, driver of the car involved in the rail crash in Berkshire last Saturday, drove onto the railway line, removed his clothes, …