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Music: Ticket Alerts For Friday 29th June

A fair few new tours on sale today at 9am. Kaiser chiefs play Earls Court for their biggest show to date. They come to town on Friday 14th December. Rufus Wainwright tours again, playing the Hammersmith Apollo on Tuesday 30th October. Following their amazing Glastonbury …

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Music Choice: Monday 25th June – Friday 29th

As both bands and fans saunter back to the capital with the mother of all hangovers from Glastonbury, this week is a bit slow for music in the capital. Things are also running a bit slow for this Londonista, thus the later than normal posting …

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Tube 2.0 (or Tuber)

Over the years there have been many attempts to introduce the rather shy, furtive and, let’s face it, constantly tardy London Underground system to the shiny, brash and only occasionally unstable world of modern technology. Keeping track of the Tube’s many ups and downs would …

PSPC

We think this originated in a tabloid but we spotted it on a PSP forum via Digg: They were supposed to be guarding a wall in danger of collapsing in Chingford, East London, during last week’s gales. Thirteen people were killed by storms nationwide — …

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Rocky Balboa

We have to admit that we’ve never seen Rocky V. We drew the line after the one where he beat the USSR to a bloody pulp, but that’s not to say we don’t love Stallone. He has a rough ride for some of his movies, …

Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse

With visions of sugar plum fairies dancing through their heads, the -Ists began to get into that holiday mood. Well, some did. Austinist wasn’t as the NY Times dissed them and a local Tex-Mex institution sold out. Making them feel better was music, sweet music …

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Welcome back … er … Bis!

Well we didn’t see this one coming: Bis are to play two gigs to celebrate 10 years since the release of New Transistor Heroes They might have only split three years ago, but we’re quite excited about this, particularly as the younger half of the …

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The 20th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival…

…kicks off at the end of the month with an Opening Night Gala screening of Happy Endings which we’ll be reviewing sometime ahead of the festival. It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lisa Kudrow and Steve Coogan. If you enjoyed The Opposite of Sex, then we think …

Free Stuff That Doesn’t Involve Booze Or Food

It’s January. You’re skint and slightly heavier than you were this time last month. You’ve probably sworn off the booze for a bit and if you see another box of Cadbury’s Heroes you’re likely to throw up. So, in the spirit of the post-Xmas period, …