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Music Choice: Monday 4th – Friday 8th June

As the start of the festival season rolls around once again, many big tours are finished for the summer, leaving plenty of chances to catch that small indie act you missed so you could catch Mika that night… we give you the best of the …

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Music: Ticket Alerts For Friday 1st June

Lots on sale tomorrow morning and today, so straight in we go. First up, Smashing Pumpkins have announced a one off date at Shepherds Bush Empire on Tuesday 19th June, ahead of their (sure to be) sensational return to Reading and Leeds Festivals. Tickets are …

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Ain’t Gonna Walk The Line

In 2012, eight out of ten London tourist sites will be inaccessible to people who can’t use stairs. So reckon the Liberal Democrats in the London Assembly. Their Olympic spokesperson, Dee Doocey, told the BBC: Disabled athletes and visitors to the Games travelling on the …

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Notes From The City

There’s no question in my mind that My Space is a wonderful thing but I find it alternately inspiring and overwhelming when you get a glimpse of the sheer number of bands and promoters are out there trying to do their thing. It doesn’t help …

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Londonist Interviews…OpenStreetMap Guru Steve Coast

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world created, like all the best things, by amateur enthusiasts. Farting in the general direction of professional mappers, these collaborative cartographers prowl the streets collecting GPS data and building up their wiki-based map. We caught up with charter-in-chief Steve …

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Touch Up London #34

Unleash the River Fleet! It still flows beneath Farringdon Road. Wouldn’t it be an improvement to let it loose once more? Imagine canal trips from Blackfriars to Kings Cross. Keep sending in your distorted images of the capital. In fact, please resume sending them in, …

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Clap Your Hands Say Olé!

Sadlers Wells’ annual Flamenco Festival brings a whirligig of colour, passion, drama, guitars, stamping and really big flouncy dresses to London between 23 Feb and 3 Mar in a welcome bid to remind us of sultry hot days and sunny Spanish sexiness. Highlights of this …

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London Timewarp #6

This week, we take the Londonist Tardis back to 1905, and land in Percy Circus, Islington. Percy Circus sits on high ground above the meandering Kings Cross Road. Its residents dwell above the salt, in Victorian terraces of greater luxury than the shabby counterparts down …

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Inside The Guardian’s New HQ

York Way, that dusty street alongside King’s Cross, is abuzz with construction and redevelopment. Nowhere more so than Kings Place (they’re not big on apostrophes in these parts), next to the Regent’s Canal. Come 2008, and a new arts and music venue will be open …

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Londonist Loves… The Kazoo Dog Busker, Covent Garden

It was 9.30pm on Saturday night. It was dark, cold and there was rain and wind. One lonely Londonist contributor stood outside Covent Garden tube station, waiting for a delayed friend. Thank you Piccadilly line for not stopping at Kings Cross this weekend. No, really, …

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Londonist Test Drives…Poetry Evenings

Every era has it poets, so if you are still stuck with Wordsworth, Sassoon and Keats as your only frames of reference for just the price of a pint you can gain access to London’s poetry circuit and soak up some modern day verse. A …