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London For Free…Mapped

You want entertainment in London, you say? And you want it for free? Well, good sir or madam, you’ve come to the right place. Anyone who’s lived in this fair city for a while knows that free entertainment is actually all around us. From our …

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Random Graffiti Of The Week: Jef Aerosol

Last weekend, 22 walls in Shoreditch, Camden and Portobello received a facelift. French stenciler Jef Aerosol (that may not be his real name) put up the images of iconic music celebrities (Bolan, Lennon, Jagger, Drake, Hendrix, Curtis and, erm, Gandhi) as well as images of …

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Londonist Stalks…Antony Gormley

Well, the big man’s in town – over thirty times – so we thought it apt to track down his other work in the capital. On the map at the bottom, green points indicate temporary installations that form the Event Horizon project, and purple markers …

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Walk on the Wild Side

First there was the Surrey puma, and then there was the Shooters Hill Cheetah. The millennium brought us the Beast of Bexley, and now almost every borough seems to have its own salivating, Baskerville-esque so-called “beast”. This week has seen the second sighting in as …

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The Saturday Strangeness

2. London’s Phantom Hounds Phantom black dogs, or ‘hellhounds’ as folklorists like to call them, are, despite the haziness of legend, manifest the world over. Across the United Kingdom such canid apparitions have been given many names – Striker, Padfoot, Roy Dog, Guytrash, and the …

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Beast Of Bexley: The Truth!

At the turn of the millennium, the ‘beast’ of Bexley was born, a headline created by the London press. It was an inaccuracy, a contradiction and a conundrum. A large, seemingly exotic cat fuelled the imagination of the public, evaded the pursuing police, and stirred …

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Antony Gormley…Mapped

Antony Gormley’s rooftop statues are this year’s Sultan’s Elephant. The tourist bewilderment devices (TBDs) have been appearing on the highpoints around the Hayward Gallery like petrified chimneysweeps. In response to our first post about this, someone suggested we map them. Well, here you go. It’s …