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Monday Miscellanea

This Day In London’s History 1916: Prolific actor Eric Christmas is born in London. OK, so it’s slim pickings this week in terms of interesting London-related events that have taken place on this date. But we did discover that the wonderfully-named Eric Cuthbert Christmas was …

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Nee Naw

There’s something about London’s emergency services that creates great blogs. Random Acts of Reality has been stunning from the get go and is still going strong; World Weary Detective was similarly excellent (until it was forced to close); and if you haven’t got Nee Naw …

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London Hard Men Part Two

Now this looks more like our cup of tea. Mark Hammond’s Johnny Was is showing at the end of the month at the Belfast Film Festival, but it’s only a matter of time before it screens here. Check out the insane cast: Vinnie Jones as …

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TV Troll: Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone

January is, as every primary school kid knows, named after Janus, the double-headed Roman god of gates, doors, beginnings and endings. It’s appropriate, then, that this month will see so many of both; we mourn the passing of Lost (Wed 10pm C4) and Rome, and …

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TV Troll: It’s A TV Love Affair

Ah, autumn. Londonist particularly loves this time of year – the Tube becomes slightly less sauna-like, the trees in our great parks start to look more interesting, and mulled wine season is just around the corner. And, of course, the autumn schedules start to look …

Elephant Leg Apocalypse

160 Londoners have been struck down by a menace that even the tightest of totalitarian legislation would have been powerless against – the humble kebab. Environmental health officers have traced a trail of “severe diarrhoea, vomiting, fever and cold sweats” to a single kebab shop …