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It seems a bit harsh, but yesterday the huge Christmas tree which has stood proudly in Trafalgar Square for the past couple of weeks was shredded and made into compost. As part of the effort to make this tree the ‘greenest’ in London’s history (energy …

The British Film Institute has decided to kick off the new year with a festival entitled The Wild Bunch celebrating America circa 1965 onwards and the cinema that era produced. “Out of this time of social change, came a decade and a half of challenging, …

Today is the ‘birthday’ of London’s most famous, fictitious detective and the most celebrated resident of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes. The New York Sun seems to be the only paper celebrating the anniversary with this article on the Baker Street Irregulars (the contemporary society not …

It’s January. You’re skint and slightly heavier than you were this time last month. You’ve probably sworn off the booze for a bit and if you see another box of Cadbury’s Heroes you’re likely to throw up. So, in the spirit of the post-Xmas period, …

A very quick Friday Film post before we go out to an overly-crowded pub and drink over-priced drink until midnight chimes. It’s Future Film news because these are the films we’re really looking forward to in the new year. We’ve provided links to sites/trailers where …

Did you see what we did there? You see, normally it’s called Friday Film News, but for today we changed the ‘Friday’ to ‘Festive’, because it’s all about the films to watch over Xmas on the telly, and we managed to keep the alliteration. Anyway… …

No time for a fully-fledged Friday Film News this week, as it’s the Londonist Office Xmas Party this afternoon, so we’re just going to skip right to the interesting film tidbits section: Following on from last week’s teaser trailer, there’s now a preview of the …

Londonist has just received its first Christmas present of the year: Jon Ronson’s Blog. Ronson is a firm Londonist favourite. Yes his books and his TV programmes are all very good and interesting. But we love him simply because he’s just such a weird bloke. …

Still not finished your Christmas shopping? Got a Star Wars fan (i.e. almost any bloke) to buy for? Got £7,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Well, if you head to Christies at 2pm today and scratch your nose at an appropriate time during the …

Londonist went to the cinema over the weekend to see Garden State (which was very good we thought). During the pre-film adverts up popped this advert for Paul Smith’s new ‘fragrance’: London. The advert is apparently intended to “evoke the nostalgic 60s side of London…swinging, …