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Fancy Some Shopping At Erotica 2007

We at Londonist hope you’re having a great weekend, and – if we’re not overstepping the bounds of our relationship here – maybe even a bit of a sexy weekend. But if these chilly November days haven’t contained quite so much hanky panky as you’d …

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Seasonal Skating: Ice Rink Round Up

For many of us ice-skating is a terrifying experience, bringing back memories of clinging to the edge of the rink, cold feet and humiliating wipeouts. We all know it’s never as serene an experience as the Christmas cards make out, but there’s a veritable plethora …

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Review: Honour Bound

This dance theatre performance based on Australian David Hicks’ experiences as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay packs a lot of visual punches but doesn’t speak up enough. Director Nigel Jamieson and choreographer Garry Stewart have created a powerful and breath-taking production that depicts the treatment …

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Extra, Extra: Surreal For No Reason Edition

Steve Rider. The last person you’d expect to be connected to a CS gas attack. Except, perhaps, Pliny the Elder. Mayor plans more pedestrian areas. Thames, Serpentine to be paved over. With nougat. The Thames Gateway management team are ‘weak’. In other news, the 2012 …

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Music Choice: Monday 12 – Friday 16 November

Tonight start the week by going to see massive Swedish popstar Marit Bergman at Hoxton Bar & Grill. She’s playing a one off UK gig in an attempt to get signed in the UK. (£6, here. Former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman teams up with fledgling …

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Londonist Live: White Mischief at Scala

You can get packed into a club playing bad techno any weekend, but it’s not often that you get to party like it’s 1859. Saturday’s White Mischief, themed “From The Earth To The Moon”, was an evening envisioning the future as the Victorians imagined it …

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Interview: Where the Hell is Matt

Whenever Londonist is feeling a tad glum, we have but to turn to Matt Harding and his amazingly silly website to get all cheered up again. Matt Harding is one big internet sensation, albeit a very unlikely one. The former games programmer has made a …

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Music Choice: Monday 5 – Friday 9 November

As reported last week, Monday should see you going crazy to hear that one good song (are there others) by

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Review: James Thiérrée – Invention, Illusion, Imagination

If the clocks going back filled you with winter blues this week then we prescribe you must get yourself to Sadlers Wells sharpish. For a reasonable amount of quids you can get yourself a seasonal dose of magic and wonderment which will fix you right …

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Music Review: Atmospheres Festival and Touch 25

Although not quite a snowy Sunday night in Prague as depicted in the above photograph by Touch co-founder Jon Wozencroft, last week was a substantially chilly one in South London. Thanks to the Atmospheres Festival, however, we were able to derive much warmth from the …

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Preview: Sexy FIRSTS @ ROH2

If you’ve been past the Bow Street entrance to the Royal Opera House lately you’ll have seen Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson smouldering gingerly in a full face poster shot, stating: Meet Ed. Fact: When he’s dancing, pound for pound, he’s stronger than a …