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The Book Grocer: Valentine’s Events Preview

Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …

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TfL: Together For London?

If you were out and about on the Underground this weekend you might have caught sight of one of these guys on TfL’s latest ‘don’t be a selfish bastard’ campaign. Together for London employs a gang of unthreateningly rounded cartoon figures, The Londoners, each promising …

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London On The Cheap

Is it just us or was January rubbish? Nice then that February, with its special extra day this year, commences with Brazilian Carnival, yummy pancakes and Chinese New Year… it’s like a whole new start for 2008 and lots of it totally FREE! Monday: Get …

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Strong Ramsey-fications for the Future….

Love him or loathe him (and actually this Londonist thinks he’s great fun), you’ve gotta admit that our Gordon’s a hard grafter. Hey, he’s everywhere – telly, glossy supplements…and the other day he was even trying to get into your kitchen. Having hobnobbed with young …

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London Olympics Looking for Love

Now, stories from the IT world ordinarily don’t do much for Londonist besides make our eyes glaze over. (We’re sorry, IT people, we’re sure you’re lovely, that your jobs are fascinating, and that we wouldn’t be able to do what we do without you. It’s …

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The Book Grocer

Perhaps your New Year’s resolutions have all made their way to the rubbish bin by now. You’re sneaking ciggies again, you’re spending more nights at the pub than not, and you’ve worked out exactly two times, despite the shiny new gym membership. Don’t worry, you’re …

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Are You Rubbish At Recycling?

Are you an unreconstructed, consumerist, couch potato with no social conscience? Excellent. Read on. Because the Rubbish Game wants you. We went to the Rubbish Game this week and, if only we hadn’t got distracted drinking wine, we might have won it. Through 3 punishing …

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The Rubbish Game: Not Rubbish At All

What stops you recycling? Are you lazy? Don’t know where to start? Does your rubbish overwhelm you? The Rubbish Game wants to know. Then it wants to turn your rubbish around, with the help of the Binman of Love. It could get filthy. The Rubbish …

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What was for Lunch in 2007

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Here’s our look back at the good, the bad and the hungry of 2007. Since starting What’s for Lunch? in May, we have reviewed forty lunch venues throughout London. We …

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Londonist Stays In – Christmas Day

Merry Christmas! (Or, if you’re not so much into the whole Christmas thing, Happy Tuesday!) We hope you’re having a very lovely Christmas day. If you need a break from the family madness, here are a few things you might want to take a peek …

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Santa’s Lap: A to Z for the 21st Century

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …