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This is not another article about the high cost of living in London, though it has great relevance to the silly prices of houses inside the M25. All of that is well documented elsewhere – we’re far more eager to devote screenspace to sensible, affordable …

Banner week for SFist as the site’s new editor introduced himself — hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF’s mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. …

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes and today is an exciting day for some four-legged furry ones with extra special wet noses and jolly brave handlers. Labradors Vinnie and Billy, and Jake, a spaniel, have got gongs of the highest order; the animals’ George …

…get the hell out of Gordon Ramsay’s effing-and-blinding kitchen. Former restaurant manager Martin Hyde of Dillons, an Indian eatery in Manhattan, is suing the British chef in an attempt to stop footage of Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares” being shown on television in the US. The show’s …

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore,

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 …

“With any luck, they also eat squirrels and tiny, annoying dogs.” So said AlyxL, commenting on our earlier post about big cats. Well AlyxL, if that is your real name, it really doesn’t matter. We have occasionally popular performance artist Mark McGowan to act in …

2. London’s Phantom Hounds Phantom black dogs, or ‘hellhounds’ as folklorists like to call them, are, despite the haziness of legend, manifest the world over. Across the United Kingdom such canid apparitions have been given many names – Striker, Padfoot, Roy Dog, Guytrash, and the …

We read this yesterday and went from outrage to horror, to reassured to uneasy, to gobsmacked to grossed out within minutes. Umm. Well. Let’s take it from the top… Ricardo Byfield, 27, and Lisa Harvey, 34, were in Acton Magistrates court recently both pleading guilty …

Here’s a wonderful oldy from Chutney Bannister showing a couple of Elvi gyrating on the Thames foreshore, while their dogs frolic and gambol nearby. If ever a photo needed a caption… If you’ve got an unusual image of the capital that you’d like us to …