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Josie Long Preview Show – Go

On Tuesday, Londonist’s favourite comedian, the brilliant if.comeddie best newcomer 2006 and Londonist interviewee Josie Long is taking a break from her current UK tour of last year’s show, ‘Kindness and Exuberance’ and doing her first ever preview for her next Edinburgh show on Tuesday …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Day In London’s History 1554: Lady Jane Grey and her husband Lord Guildford Dudley are executed at the Tower of London. Named as successor to the throne by King Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey became Queen of England in July 1553. However her reign …

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Londonist Interviews: Some People Who Like Walking

Anyone walking past Holborn Tube is sure to have all kinds of leaflet thrust upon them. But if you were passing by last Friday, you might have ended up with something worthwhile. A group of postgrads from St Martin’s have put together a handy map …

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Londonist Live: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 23rd January Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan’s album, Ballad of the Broken Seas, tells timeless tales of love, regret, betrayal and heartache borne of long-suffering distance. So it is perhaps unsurprising that their performance at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire a couple of …

Blogjammin’

The snow may have brought London to a halt, but the blogorash just keeps spreading. Here are a few of the things that caught our eye out there this week… Thankfully Onionbagblogger‘s new darts (yes, darts) didn’t literally catch our eye, but we did it …

News From Around The Ist-A-Verse

Valentine’s Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don’t let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things …

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ICA Scraps Becks Futures

Art prizes always create controversy; people seem to love to hate them and the media is so practiced at producing outraged copy about pickled sheep, elephant dung paintings, lights flicking on and off, unmade beds and other shock tactics of the YBA scene that there …

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Londonist Interviews A Very Kind Man

We love freecycle. We’ve waxed lyrical about it before.. Since then we have received a book and are still waiting to hear back from a woman about some dinosaur stickers. While browsing through lists of beds and curtains and the implausible amount of doors that …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Day In London’s History 1924: The Greenwich Time Signal pips are broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time. This one is quite pleasingly geeky. Shortly after the formation of the BBC in 1922, it was suggested that it might be a nice idea …

Elsewhere in the Ist-iverse

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We’re exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little ‘ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal …

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Saturday Cinema Summary

This week – Dame Dench catches Cate Blanchett fiddling with a child and goes nuts (Notes on a Scandal) and Beyonce fronts the Supremes (Dreamgirls). Bradshaw gives Notes on a Scandal 4/5. So we have some “tremendous acting” from Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett, director …