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Parterre Box began its life in 1993 as a photocopied punk-style zine distributed for free in the men’s toilets of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Now that the internet has replaced the toilet as the place where men meet each other for anonymous sex, …

Plate-faced actress Gwyneth Paltrow has reacted angrily to reports that she “slammed London”. Er, what? It’s right there in black and white, blondie – unless you’d like to sue Marie Claire US for misquoting you. In a classic display of doublethink, Gwyneth hopes to deflect …

Yes, TV Troll’s joint favourite programme (along with Lost, X Factor, The Sopranos, South Park, Big Brother, The Daily Show, Spoons, Britney And Kevin: Chaotic, Good Morning With Richard Not Judy, Sealab 2021 …) is back! Strictly Come Dancing will be waltzing back onto our …

Oh dear. There may be a few red faces at Chinawhite, sleb-pap-gossip spot extraordinaire, after bouncers at the Air Street club refused to let in Kanye West. It’s hardly like he’s been in the news at all recently, after all. That wasn’t him on the …

Rolling round again for 2005, tonight sees the 10th annual MOBO awards taking place at the Royal Albert Hall. Famously dogged with controversy last year for the revoking of homophobic reggae artists nominations, the 2005 awards should run a bit more smoothly with the only …

Whether you like it or not, the film release everyone’s talking about this week is Mr & Mrs Smith. We don’t really need to explain why do we? Unless you’ve been on Mars for the past month you can’t have missed the Brad/Angelina gossip that’s …

Obviously as the election race hots up (and there’s your first ‘election cliche’ of 2005!) Londonist will eb bringing you all the local news, gossip and other information you need to make an informed and sensible decision at the ballot box (possibly). But for now, …

Is the world close to discovering, once and for all, the identity of the blogger known only as Belle de Jour? Londonist has previously mused that there were more than a few holes in the call-girl-turned-blogger-turned -author-turned-TV-character’s story. Now, just when Belle looked a bit …

Getting the remake treatment this week is the fondly remembered Magic Roundabout, recreated in a very European computer generated style, with the added draw of celebrity voices, such as Kylie Minogue, Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent and Robbie Williams. This doesn’t save the film …

The latest government figures on truancy were released today and it was bad news for London as the capital had the highest rate in the country, although this is probably good news for any retailer with a lax policy on selling cigarettes to kids. Given …