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We’re guessing most of you are hungover from St. Patrick’s Day. We are too. But still, we’re going to muddle on through our green haze and give you (drum roll please…) this Week In -ists. We start with SFist which broke the -ist record for …

A few weeks back we brought you the tale of a man who, out of the kindness of his own heart, takes people’s broken iPods, fixes them for free and passes them on to others. Could there be a nicer man in the whole kingdom? …

This Day In London’s History 1825: The Grosvenor Canal is opened. In 1723 the Chelsea Waterworks were constructed to supply water for parts of West London. Part of these works included a small tidal inlet on the Thames, just east of Chelsea Bridge, which became …

Loads of skyscraper speculation this week. And we’ll say from the outset that all info is sourced from the peerless SkyscraperNews. Go visit. Pop Art Tower for Old Street Roundabout? There it is, pictured. What do you reckon? Bold, distinctive, certainly very different – although …

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of “Friday Night Lights” production to New Mexico. Bostonist was happy they finally found an Anna Nicole Smith connection to their …

Housing in London is very expensive indeed. In fact it’s so expensive indeed that Londonist HQ is imaginary and we all live in Derby. However, thank your lucky charms that you aren’t a lowly wannabe Argentinian farmer. He may not have to pay the congestion …

Well, no. This is almost certainly a PR stunt (possibly inspired by our Touch Up London series) and not a likely development. But an interesting concept nevertheless. The images are by Popularchitecture (and please don’t click that link; of all the twatish, unhelpful websites from …

Last week the 2012 organisers were promising that the London Olympics would be the greenest yet. Normally we’d scoff at such a claim, but it looks like this time no one is talking out of their hat. By building part of the Olympic village on …

We were going to write a long detailed explanation of why we’re once again doing a weekly blog roundup and then realised that only a few days (and a few centuries) ago Samuel Pepys had done the job for us: (Lord’s day). Lay long in …

As the world holds it’s breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated …