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London Riots: Warehouse Fire Hits Indie Record Labels

CD and DVD stock burns up with the Sony warehouse in Enfield

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What’s On David Cameron’s DVD And Book Shelf?

Can you work it out from these blurry images?

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Fakers To Be Outfoxed

A new campaign promises to make London “fake free” by 2012. They’re not talking about shutting down Harley Street’s plastic surgery parlours, nor rounding up the mannequins and frogmarching them out of Madam Tussauds while a crowd jeers. No, the campaign aims to smite that …

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Nobody Wants These DVDs

Have we been giving you too many chances to win things of late? Seems no one – NOT A ONE OF YOU – was interested in getting a free copy of a 2 year old comedy DVD, even though it would be free, delivered to …

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Preview: East 2008

As we mentioned briefly before, Thursday brings the East 2008 Festival. For six days, a cornucopia of performances, exhibitions, workshops, food and other events ensures entertainment with emphasis on promotion of the best of East London. Here’s our pick of the mix: 6th March: F-EAST …

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Sweet Cinema Suite

Photo courtesy of The Sizemore McCabe Project It’s not difficult to spend money in London as just leaving the house seems to remove a fair amount of cash from the average wallet. But for those with a less than average wallet, it can be a …

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Horror Film Pub Quiz

It’s the week for spooky goings on and ever more events are coming to our attention. On Halloween night itself, our favourite quiz masters the You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat film quiz chaps are hosting a horror special. If you want to show off …

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Extra, Extra

Climate change march reaches London, after leaving Northern Ireland in July. Would have been quicker to fly. Fake DVDs fund people smuggling. So stop buying them. Seventies and eighties sitcom scripts come up for sale. The olduns are the gooduns. Image courtesy of Yersinia’s flickr …

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Sporting Weekend: Dinghy Sailing Show

What with March coming in like a lion and blowing everyone all over the place it’s the ideal time to take to the water under sail power. Although there’s plenty on offer for the seasoned small boat owner in this weekend’s Dinghy Sailing Show at …

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Eat, Drink and Be… Generous

This Thursday, the Oxfam book shop on Marylebone High Street will be holding another of its super foodie nights. This is the charity’s flagship London bookshop and is a treat for philanthropic bibliophiles: new and anitquarian books, CDs, vinyl, videos and DVDs can be found …

Londonist Loves… You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat

Last night Londonist put together another team for You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat in Highgate. By 11pm we had confirmed two things. 1. We are not as smart as we thought we were, and 2. This is the best pub quiz we’ve ever been …