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Shooting in London part three – Capital Gusset

Beefeaters were probably peering out from their curtains as Black Eyed Pea, Fergie, did her thing during her recent video shoot: THE BLACK EYED PEAS star FERGIE is putting London’s solemn-faced beefeaters to the test by rubbing them up the right way in her new …

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Touch Up London

Remember the 20th Century when the camera never lied? At least according to sage chroniclers of the time, Bucks Fizz. Well, this century, doctoring images is all the rage – the Daily Mirror practically makes a selling point out of it, and even the Olympic …

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Really really really wanna zigazig ah!

That’s what you’ll all be saying when the The Tate Modern £140m extension is opened. The Times: It is inspired by the ziggurats of ancient Babylon, but to some the giant glass structure planned for the south bank of the Thames resembles the work of …

The Week In -ist

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we’re not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don’t sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he …

Find The Time!

It’s Friday, and that means we get to post a video of Five Star dancing in perfect synchronisation in front of some of the capital’s landmarks. All together now: Find the time, oooh oooh ooh oooooh.

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“For London” Poetry Illuminates City

As the Observer points out, “it is impossible to gauge what is happening in English-speaking poetry simply by browsing bookshop shelves and reading broadsheet newspapers” – but to really appreciate the landscape this week, you’ll have to go outside. Until Friday, some of the city’s …

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What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?

London before and after seems to be on our minds at the moment. Ever since that week in July that seemed to give with one hand and then took it all away with the other, the people who live and work here have been forced …

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The Elephant Vanishes

Elephant and Castle is one of the landmarks of London that everyone loves to hate. This elephant-adorned pink shopping centre squats in the heart of a furious traffic roundabout and can famously only be reached by a series of piss-soaked, intimidating subways. It’s been crying …

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Virtual Fisticuffs Return To London

Well, here we go again. The release of another instalment of video game ‘The Getaway’ has been announced by Sony. And this time, it’s portable The Getaway: Gangs of London is to be launched later this year on the PSP format. Flawed but fun, the …

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London In Four Glorious Dimensions

We’d just about stopped wetting our pants with excitement over the immense pleasures of Google Earth. So imagine the burden on our underwear after finding a site that (1) makes bits of London 3-D and (2) allows one to…oh my shattered bladder…TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. Digitally …

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Location Spotting: Basic Instinct 2 Trailer

A few Fridays ago we linked to a quick trailer for Basic Instinct 2. Unfortunately there weren’t many London landmarks for us to spot in there (unless you count David Morrisey’s arse as a ‘London landmark’) but now there’s a much longer trailer on the …