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Happy Father’s Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one’s for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge …

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we’ve all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything …

Daft old casual chauvinist, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, made a visit to the Cutty Sark wreckage in Greenwich Dock (originally posted by Londonista M@ here) on Tuesday and declared the devastation of one of London’s most important hertitage sites as, “A Bloody Shame”. …

The Save Sloane Square campaign has apparently Saved Sloane Square. Backed by Knightsbridge celebrities, the campaigners opposed plans by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to turn the area into a busy crossroads. Despite the uber-posh location outside the often jammed tube station, the …

Lots of crucial attention to detail in Wellington Grey‘s Walk on the Left. Like the way in the above image, motorists are confronted with a fatal accident, a burning bus and a pregnant woman being hurled from the back of an ambulance, but remain angry …

You’d think a burly contingent of live in Beef Eaters would be enough to defend The Tower of London from attack, but it seems no one took into account the overwhelming destructive power unleashed by property developers. Plans to stop developers putting up ugly buildings …

It’s Valentine’s Day and if your cold, bitter heart has not been melted in a furnace of love by this point, then why go on? Your sneaking suspicion that there is, in actual fact, nothing warm and fuzzy in the world is true. Or is …

In deference to the Turner Prize, we decided to make this week’s entry a work of abstract art. Viz, four very famous London landmarks as Turner, with his notoriously dodgy eyesight, might have seen them. Isn’t Photoshop truly the wonder of the modern age? Keep …

If you’re currently running round shops trying to fill a Secret Santa for a person you barely know, then you simply can’t go wrong with Muji’s London in a Bag. Literally what it says on the tin (bag), this is a mini wooden version of …

Calm down, it’s not a very slow invasion – just yet another cool thing for us all to gawk at: Today a pioneering airship adventure is being launched in London. ‘The Spirit of Dubai’, the largest commercial airship in the world, will begin a unique …