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The House of the Orange Monkey chronicles the adventures of a very special tourist. Mr Monkey is one of the few simian visitors to our city. He certainly makes the most of it, exploring the parts other tourists cannot reach, and writing up surprisingly useful …

Kylie is set to make her television comeback in Doctor Who: Kylie Minogue is reportedly set to return to the small screen as a cyberwoman out to snare Dr Who on the British television show’s Christmas special. The News of the World said filming would …

Today TFL launch their latest spurious health promotion/congestion tackling campaign “Why not walk it” urging London motorists to leave the car at home and take Shanks’ pony to their destination. Londonist sees straight through this ruse. We all know that motorists just won’t. It’s well …

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we’d cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. It was a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week at DCist. Like the rest of country, we were floored by the news …

Eurovision 2007 is on. Here’s the first of Londonist’s previews of this year’s entries, and there’s already some amazing songs. Bulgaria send an ethnic rave song with vocals that are mere sound effects built into the heavily drummed mix. It’s quite amazing. Israel’s controversial entry …

This week – Adam Sandler’s family were killed in 9/11 (Reign Over Me) and Ryan Gosling is a crack addict high school teacher (Half Nelson). Before we push on, it is only right that we warn you that Peter Bradshaw hasn’t written any reviews for …

What’s your name and which part of London do you live in? Ruth Sloss, South Ealing. How long have you been running for? About 4 years. Is this your first Marathon? Yes (gulp!). What inspired you to enter the Marathon? I started running thinking I …

What’s your name and which part of London do you live in? My name is Stephen Mainstone, I’m 29 and I live in East Dulwich. How long have you been running for? I have been running (seriously) since September last year so 8 months. Is …

Since we retired Monday Music Review (R.I.P.) we haven’t done much by way of album reviews but we had to make a big exception for Lucky Soul, a band we’ve been bigging up on Londonist since we fell in love with them on first listen… …

Previous tales of the Mouse family can be found here, here , here and here. Continuing from previous episode… the Mouse family moved out of Newham Hospital, then to Asda, then moved into the Cheesegrater skyscraper, where Papa Mouse discovered that his son Tim-Tim and …