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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 …

The Coolest Woman In the World

Last time we wrote about a list the NME had published, they tried to sue us. This time we’re actually impressed by what they’ve written. Yes, it’s time for that all important ‘how cool am i today list’ aka the NME 2006 Cool List. Instead …

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Londonist Introduces… Mika

Last week we went out to watch a man from Beirut with colourful trousers and big hair, sing songs about fat girls, gay affairs, and lollipops. Tonight, we think you should do the same. Mika was born in the middle of a warzone in 1983 …

Londonist Live: We Are Scientists @ Popstarz : Friday 10 November

The usual programming at weekly alternative gay night Popstarz @ Scala was interrupted for a raucous 30 minutes last Friday as Brooklyn natives We Are Scientists took the stage in the indie room and proved that New York still holds it own on the scene. …

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Amy Lamé’s Mama Cass Family Singers

A misremembered memoir sounds rather melancholy and a bit… arthouse. Unless, of course, it is the misremembered memoir of writer, broadcaster, Duckie co-founder, performer and Celebrity Fit Club contestant Amy Lamé. In her hands, the potentially sentimental nostalgia of an autobiographical one-woman show becomes something …

News From Around The Ist-a-verse

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few …

News From Around The ist-a-verse

Let’s take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the …

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Gay Police get Catholicked

Something we covered a while back has finally been resolved with a win for the faithful: A Gay Police Association (GPA) advert which linked a rise in homophobic attacks to religious belief breached advertising rules. The advert showing a Bible and a pool of blood …

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Friday Film News

This week – Alan Bennett’s adaption of his smash-hit play (History Boys), Costner plays a lifeguard, (The Guardian) and Outkast make a jazz/hip-hop movie (Idlewild). First up, The History Boys, the film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s ridiculously successful play which won a sackful of awards. …

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KITT Outed by Best Friend

We’ve been trying to think of an excuse to give in and add HOFF as a category and then we go and miss this story from Friday: David Hasselhoff Says “Knight Rider” Car Was Gay Headlines like that come along only a few times in …

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Wham Bam It’s Christmas Time!

Puffy haired pop duo Wham are staging a special one-off Christmas gig complete with backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie! A friend revealed to British newspaper The Sunday Mirror, “George is thrilled that Andrew’s agreed to perform. “It was something George had thought about for a …