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Week Around the -Ists

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, …

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Santa’s Lap: Beer at hand!

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

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Yule Love It

Our friends at the South East London Folklore Society (SELFS) will be hailing and celebrating Yule tonight with a good old fashioned game of pin the tail on the Yule Cat. There will also be beer, chips, storytelling, songs and games. If you’re a fan …

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Oh! O2! What A View!

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Santa’s Lap: Arty Memberships

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …

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The Wave Pictures Rule Whitechapel

People keep mentioning The Wave Pictures to us. First we caught them supporting Architecture in Helsinki back in September, and tomorrow they play the final of 4 Tuesday night sessions at the George Tavern, Whitechapel. It’s an amazing venue but not to everyone’s tastes. Candlelight, …

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The Book Grocer

This week’s events are top-heavy with poetry readings. Have our novelist friends squirreled themselves away to write tomes in their Christmas cards, we wonder? Monday: Head to the RADA Foyer Bar for a reading from the Poetry School’s third anthology, I am twenty people! All …

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London On The Cheap

So this week, we spent all our money on cold remedies and extra balmy tissues for our beleaguered noses. The plan is to be back and fighting fit by Monday so here are some of the things we could all get up to this week …

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New Playground Game May Harm Kids

London is getting more dangerous by the day ladies and gentlemen. It’s not enough that a quick trip down Oxford Street is going to leave you gasping like a floundering flounder on the deck of a homeward bound fishing trawler, now you can’t even grab …

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LOFT At The Roundhouse

We haven’t mentioned the Roundhouse lately and didn’t expect to for the Christmas season, but we’re pleasantly surprised to announce a new show in the completely circular space in Camden that opens tonight and runs for the festive period. LOFT is a comedy, circus, dance, …

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Dilapidated And Charming: Stars Come Out For Wiltons

From the outside, you wouldn’t guess anything was going on behind the peeling, Georgian facade at all but inside, what was once called “the handsomest room in town” was graced by equally handsome Hugh Grant and the luscious Helen Mirren as part of a fundraiser …