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What’s The Harm In Putting Up A Smoke Alarm?

We love Firefighters. We also harbour a morbid love for the London Fire Brigage incident page which tells you what’s burnt down where (look – a hay barn in Upminster ). But now we’ve got love for a particular firefighter who seems to have done …

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Divided London?

The statisticians are at it again. Trying to connect A-B but, just for fun, popping into every shop along the way. Sketching trends with a pencil as there is insufficient data to ink them in. Reading significance into very little. Missing the point. A new …

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Bacon’s Rent Cheque Up For Auction

First it was skulls, now it’s nude paintings. A painting that Francis Bacon gave to The Royal College of Art in return for rent, is soon to be auctioned at Christie’s. It’s expected to fetch more than £9 million. Wowser. Study from the Human Body …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …

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Fire in the Sky

Clouds were billowing over Park Royal yesterday afternoon when a blaze broke out in a warehouse. The fire took hold quickly and spread to two neighbouring companies, triggering the widespread evacuation of the area. It took 20 fire engines and over 100 firefighters to bring …

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Londonist Live Review: Mute Math and Parlotones @ Monto Water Rats

Remember those heady days back in the late 90’s when Feeder were good? ‘Just a Day’, ‘Buck Rogers’, stuff like that? Well, if you miss those brilliant pop-rock crossover tracks then look no further than Mute Math, a New Orleans fourpiece who manage to combine …

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Londonist Stays In

If, like us, you’re exhausted and skint after the bank holiday weekend and just not up to taking advantage of all the fun things London has to offer this week, here are a few things you can watch and listen to from the comfort of …

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Extra, Extra

Two shot at carnival. Fire crew counsel empty toilet. Will London get a marathon of malcontents? Mandela’s in town to see his new statue unveiled. It says something good about London that we now have more public statues of the former South African president than …

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Extra, Extra

Fire! Fire! Set phones to vibrate. It’s sex education via text message. Ups and downs in the London housing market. You pretend not to care, but you do really. Jennifer Ellison returns to the West End. You genuinely don’t care. More Tube strikes look likely. …

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Londonist Stays In

If all your mates are off on holiday and work is unbearably dull and hot then here’s some home entertainment to get you through the mid-August slump. On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 13 August Panorama (BBC1, 20:30) If you’re avoiding Dawkins on Channel 4 (and …

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London On The Cheap: 6th August – 12th August

As soon as the sun came out, half of you probably rushed to the nearest beach. Or the nearest pub. Or the nearest airport. Now you’re back in the real world and you’ve spent all your money. It means that we can’t go and see …