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Free Screening of Blind Beast Tonight

There’s a Firecracker screening of Yasuzo Masumura’s Blind Beast tonight at the Curzon Mayfair: A blind sculptor kidnaps an artist’s model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual …

Across The -ist Network

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark “Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid.” Is that a promise? They also give us this week’s best CDs and make us realize that LA is the …

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Big Brother: Deeeyah Wun In Tha Big Brutha Howse

The animals went in two by two, hurrah. Hurrah! There’ll be something else to watch on telly apart from the bloody football! And, good news for all us addicts across the land, the inhabitants of the Big Brother ark this year are weirder than ever. …

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Allo, I Must Be Staying

When Wembley eventually re-opens we trust the mayor will have used the delay to pass some kind of byelaw restricting cup finals involving London clubs to 75 minutes. We’re not sure the Londonist cardio-vascular system can cope with much more of this late, late despair …

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Books for Pelé

With world cup nostalgia beginning to surge across the media you might have been watching all that retina-etchingly vivid footage of Mexico ’70 and thought to yourself, “I wonder where that promising young lad, Pelé is now?” Well, dear Londonist reader, wonder no more! The …

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“Open-mouthed, I shall dream of altar boys” – The Confession of a BNP Councillor

The British National Party are the epitome of what is wrong with British politics today. Just watching their skin-headed, xeno/homo/everything-phobic candidates standing at the vote count in their little Union Flag waistcoats makes Londonist’s resident Politico, Nick, want to hang up his rosette in disgust. …

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Lidos Lose Lottery Lolly

Is the health and welfare of Manchester United’s team more important than your own? Well, we know of a few misguided folks who might answer yes, but that’s not the point. In today’s Guardian Janet Smith, author of Liquid Assets, offers the information that whilst …

Extra, Extra

The London Assembly Conservatives are blaming the level of bureaucracy and paperwork in the Met for the fact that, on average, they solve fewer than one crime per officer each month. The Shoreditch ‘reality CCTV’ scheme goes live this week. The media are asking whether …

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TV Troll: You’re Hired

After getting thoroughly soaked this morning on the way to work (TV Troll’s tolerance for H2O is somewhere around the level of the Wicked Witch of the West’s) , we are in need of a nice night at home in front of the telly – …

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Towers Not Blowing

It’s come to our attention that our very own motley crew, Towers Of London, have turned down the opportunity to re-record the classic: I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles for West Ham because they’re Everton fans… Is that really news? Anyways, we thinks this is a good …

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Dave the Chameleon Part 2

Those Labour lizard-junkies have come up with a second episode from Dave the Chameleon. You can watch it here. It’s largely recycled material, but there is more new animation towards the end. Still amusing, but the fact that Tory M.P.s are now walking around wearing …