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Doherty not taking drugs shocker. Winehouse beehive inversely proportional to levity of mood. Serious blaze closes Leicester Square. Banksy works reach almost half a million pounds at auction. He can’t compete with Allah, a copy of whose Koran fetched $2.3 million at auction. Image courtesy …

London Street Art 2 is the sequel to, well, erm, London Street Art. The pocket sized book chronicles some of the more interesting graffiti from the past year. We asked photographer Alex MacNaughton about his latest collection of images – many, like the shot above, …

Sandhu, we suspect, gets less sleep than a hummingbird in a centrifuge. Over the past couple of years, the author and film critic has eschewed shuteye to learn more about the capital’s nocturnal inhabitants. His new book, Night Haunts, presents eleven accounts from an unfamiliar …

Londonist has learnt with relief that London’s Community Wardens are to be taught to smile. Well, they are at least to be taught

Tired of watching the cohort of British heroes cast rudely aside at the world’s premier tennis event each year, London has finally given our boys a fighting chance by creating a tournament that surely offers Tim Henman (pictured), Andy Murray and his doubles-specialist brother Jamie …

If you’ve spent any amount of time at all in East London, then you’re no doubt familiar with graffiti artist Tek33’s chunky, spray painted pitchforks. Asked what motivates the artist to “throw-up”, he explains that he does it for the buzz, that he has a …

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – …

There is a white wall between Chalk Farm Tube and the Roundhouse that must see more graffiti turnover than anywhere outside Shoreditch. The recent work by Jef Aerosol, the punk lady and some cruder efforts by Cartrain, were recently whitewashed over. The Banksy maid was …

They’re rehousing their residents in some pretty odd places, that lot at Wandsworth Council. In an impressive initiative called Hidden Homes, the chief bods of this creative borough are re-evaluating all their abandoned nooks and crannies, coal holes and closets to see if they can …

The Treatment Rooms is a privately owned three-story house in the West London suburb of Chiswick, which over the past several years has had its exterior walls transformed into an ongoing self-contained conceptual piece of mosaic art. The vibrant and well executed mosaics, which cover …