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Welcome Austinist

Londonist was pleased to see yet another smooth and faultless launch of an -ist site, this time in Austin Texas, a city we initially heard about due to it being the setting for Richard Linklaters engrossing low-fi indie debut, Slacker, but is now firmly on …

Hunter S Thompson

Sometime on Sunday evening Hunter S Thompson took his own life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. That’s as far away from London as you can imagine but we feel that we would be lacking as writers …

Last Chance To Vote In Bloggies

Today is pretty much your last chance to cast your vote in the 2005 Bloggies where we’re up for the ‘Best British or Irish Weblog’. We’ve had a bit of an upsurge in vistors to the site since Londonist was nominated so we’d just like …

Bloggies 2005 – Thanks Very Much

Londonist would like to say a very hearty (almost Brian Blessed-eque) “Thank You” to all our readers who nominated us for a 2005 Bloggie award. Thanks to you, Londonist has been short-listed for Best British or Irish blog. We would tell you who our competition …

Zero Tolerance London

Ken Livingstone’s crusade to turn London into a kind of New York looky-likey continued today with a speech in which he called for a zero tolerance approach to crimes such as spitting and littering. Ok, nobody likes messy pavements or hawking in public, but is …

Bloc Party In At No. 2 In BBC ‘Sound of 2005′ List

London band Bloc Party had better prepare themselves for the inevitable ‘New Kids on the Bloc’ headlines as they came second in a BBC News poll of 110 critics and broadcasters. (New York band The Bravery topped the poll but we’ll let our friends at …

Bloggies 2005

It’s that time of year again when we vote for our favourite blogs via Fairvue Central’s Annual Weblog Awards (better known as The Bloggies). Obviously if you’d like to nominate Londonist in either the ‘Best British or Irish weblog’ or ‘Best group weblog’ categories then …