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The Book Grocer

There are just too many good events around town this week for us to narrow our picks for certain nights. Thus we present you with multiple options and leave that difficult choice to you. In the meantime, we’ll be brushing up on our science fiction …

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The Phallus Of The Opera

For good or ill, a man can be prickly when pressed on the subject of his, ahem, endowment. Spare a thought, then, for Juan Pablo Di Pace, who has seen his manhood manhandled by the marketing department of the Royal Opera House. Cast in the …

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Highlighting the Plight of Destitute Asylum Seekers

Of the anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 people who apply for asylum in the UK each year, Amnesty International estimates that approximately two-thirds are turned away. Once rejected, applicants are given 21 days to leave the country, at which point those without children are cut …

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Freesheets Shack Up In Hackney

When you’re picking up your freesheet on the way home tonight don’t just leave it on the train for some other, poor, reading material starved sucker. Turn it into public art! No, we don’t mean have an art attack on the platform and start making …

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The Book Grocer

March already? How did that happen? The perils of having our head buried in a book so much of the time, no doubt. If we must emerge this week from our cosy little book-enclosed chrysalis, it’ll likely be to head to the following events. Monday: …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 3rd March 1982: The Barbican Centre is opened by the Queen. After 15 years of construction, at a cost of £161 million, the centre would become the largest performing arts centre in Europe (as well as being voted …

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London On The Cheap

It’s officially Spring and by Pisces it’s lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the …

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Planet Kebabs VERSUS Archway Kebab House

Welcome to Versus, where Londonist takes like for like and decides which one is more likeable On a staid north London street, a battle rages between two implacable foes to determine the answer to that essential Friday night question: who serves up the finest kebabs …

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Extra, Extra

The bus stop killer is banged up for life. Yay! Some of the capital’s best music venues are to get the protection of the law. A Surrey town council backs the Heathrow expansion plans. This is really sad: a depressed mother-of-three commits suicide in an …

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The Book Grocer

Even on its quietest weeks, London is something of a happy haven for bibliophiles such as ourselves, though we may be doing nothing more than perusing one of the city’s many lovely bookshops. This week, however, we’re in a veritable book geek heaven, as the …

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Clissold Park Revamp: Update

The arthritic pygmy goats of Clissold Park will be hobbling for joy. Hackney’s favourite place, as voted for by borough residents in a 2007 poll, and venue for the yearly Stokefest fun, is set for a £8.9 million revamp. We brought you the news of …