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Ye New Curiosity Shop

What is a curiosity shop exactly? Well for us here at Londonist we think of a curiosity shop as containing all the mysterious joy of a junk shop with all the otherworldy mystique of an exotic antiques emporium. By rights London should be full of …

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Finally, A Decent Free Magazine

We like magazines. We like free things. So it stands to reason that we’d like free magazines. Or so you’d think. Ok, Vice was required reading for a while there, if only for the novelty value, but their conservative hipster schtick gets pretty old pretty …

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Stranger than Fiction

What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket …

Londonist Plays Poker – The Results

Earlier this week, Londonist editors Euan and Rob were invited to participate in the Coral European Poker media event at the Gutshot club in East London. The game was Texas Hold ‘em, and there were about 30 players in the running. The prize was your …

Free Binder With Part One

January is known for a lot of things: dieting, being skint, the sales, resolutions. But, in our hearts at least, there’s one thing which really makes January, and that’s partwork magazines. You know the kind of thing we mean. The magazines published by people like …

Best Music of 2004

Well, everybody else is doing it, so why can’t we? Here we present Londonist’s favourite music of 2004, along with pointers to other sites’ lists. It might be worth bearing in mind if you’re brave enough to visit the shops during the January Sales melee. …