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Interview: Where the Hell is Matt

Whenever Londonist is feeling a tad glum, we have but to turn to Matt Harding and his amazingly silly website to get all cheered up again. Matt Harding is one big internet sensation, albeit a very unlikely one. The former games programmer has made a …

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Instant blogging from St Pancras International

Updates from a Londonista at today’s Integrated Volume Testing at St Pancras International, the new Eurostar terminal. (A sneak preview of the new station before it opens on 14th November, with Eurostar moving from Waterloo overnight.) 7.15am. Early start, ugh. 8.00. It’s quite a privilege …

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Heathrow: Most Hated

The world’s busiest international airport is also the world’s least favourite. Delays on the tarmac and in the terminals have led a survey of 2,500 travellers to vote Heathrow as their least favourite airport. The airport, currently operating beyond its intended capacity, has been slowed …

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Preview: Comica, Week Two

The London International Comics Festival is halfway over, so if you haven’t seen any of it yet you owe it to yourself to investigate some sweet action with paper, ink and speech bubbles. The festival continues to tackle a nicely wide range of topics, so …

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Stand Up And Celebrate

You may or may not have noticed that this week is Amnesty International’s Protect The Human week. Protect The Human week is a snazzy name for the week formerly known as Amnesty Week – a time when people all over Britain celebrate and raise awareness …

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Will The House Of Commons Close Down?

Those bloody Victorians could never build anything properly. The House of Commons chamber is leaking, and may have to be closed down for three years while the roof is repaired. This means one of four things: 1) The Lower House moves to a temporary venue …

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Londonist’s Green Day Out

Depending on how much Internet reading you do, you may or may not be aware that today is Blog Action Day – a day on which bloggers around the web unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind. This year it’s the environment. …

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Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival

The breathlessly international Bicycle Film Festival is seven years old this year and it is rolling into London with a string of cool films and even cooler parties and exhibitions, from Wednesday 17 October to Sunday 21 October. Films about two-wheel transport range from modern-day …

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Preview: Bridge Art Fair

As we noted yesterday, art fair season is upon us in full force this weekend. With so many events happening around the capital, it would be hard work to take it all in, and the best advice one can offer is to try to see …

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Olympic Canoeists Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis

(Actually, they’re not. We’re feeling all pretentious this morning and wish to demonstrate our superior education in the Classics.) Turns out the 2012 Olympic venue for canoe slalom, Spitalbrook in Hertfordshire, is tainted with muck. Heavy pollution has forced the Olympic Delivery Authority to seek …

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Dance Umbrella Free Stuff

If our enthusiastic dance previews didn’t inspire you to go as far as actually parting with cash for contemporary dance then perhaps you could cut your teeth on free events happening as part of London’s International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Dance Umbrella. If you work …