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Get A Move On

After sampling London past at the British Library’s ‘London: a life in maps’, we went on to Store Street for a peek at the London yet come. ‘London’s moving: how transport is changing’ is the latest free exhibition at New London Architecture, best known for …

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News From Around The Ist-a-verse

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients – although …

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Touch Up London #24

This week’s entry comes from Ham, proprietor of the wonderful London Daily Photo, who sends us a slightly altered image of a garage in Stratford. Says Ham: ‘I just couldn’t help myself – Kate Moss loves London too‘. Keep the photoshopped imagery of London coming. …

Pied Piper of Greenwich

Fun and frolics in Greenwich Park last weekend, in a kind of flash-mob stylee. It’s the latest stunt by ‘This is a knife‘ (or thisisaknife as they irritatingly like to call themselves) ‘who bring you the internet week in compact form, in a show only …

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Culture Crawl

It’s a kid-friendly crawl this weekend, by which we mean there’s lots of stuff to see and do that would please children and the perpetually nostalgic. Get your scarf, woolly hat and mittens and go out to play. Until 3 December Toys@Oxo 2006 is the …

Londonist Live: IAMX @ Cargo : Wed 8 November

l Chris Corner, formerly of nineties legends Sneaker Pimps, abandoned London several years ago for a more arty, not to mention frugal existence in Berlin. Whilst over there he has had lots of fun, presumably at warehouse parties and trendy gallery openings, but also found …

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Apocalypto

We’re still trying to digest yesterday’s warning that al-Qaida wants to have a pop at the UK with a nuclear weapon: British intelligence officials believe that al-Qaida is determined to attack the UK with a nuclear weapon, it emerged yesterday. The announcement, from an officially …

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Celebrity Highway to Hell

When are these pop stars going to learn not to mess with the awesome power of the ROCK? Ms Dynamite almost lived up to her name while filming some nonsense for a reality TV show when she was taken roughly from behind by AC/DC: Fellow …

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Culture Crawl

The Londonist weekly Culture Crawl is crawling with things to see, do and enjoy: this week, we have dogs, more fireworks (but not dogs AND fireworks combined because that would be unpleasant) and the first mention of Christmas shopping. Let’s start with some wagging tails… …

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Battersea Power Station: The Future?

Wandsworth Council have given consent to six planning applications and one variation concerning detailed designs for one of our favourite lump of bricks – the Battersea Power Station: These consents, representing a total area of 4.5 million sq ft mean that, for the first time, …

Interview: Tom Wright, Director iAy Carmela! At The Shaw Theatre

Faithful to its abundant exclamation points, new play iAy Carmela! opens tonight, at the Shaw Theatre in Kings Cross, with a gala event. As we like to grab all opportunities by the balls, we catch director Tom Wright (above right, being grabbed by the balls) …