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Preview: East 2008

As we mentioned briefly before, Thursday brings the East 2008 Festival. For six days, a cornucopia of performances, exhibitions, workshops, food and other events ensures entertainment with emphasis on promotion of the best of East London. Here’s our pick of the mix: 6th March: F-EAST …

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Arts Ahead 4-11 March

There’s masses going on for us culture vultures to choose from this week. First Thursdays As it’s the start of March, it’s First Thursdays this week. More than 80 galleries and museums will be open til 9pm across East London. We recommend John Squire’s (yes, …

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London On The Cheap

It’s officially Spring and by Pisces it’s lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the …

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Review: FORM @ Olympia

For those of you with a penchant for furniture with an artistic flair or pretty but undeniably useless knick-knacks, your mecca is open for this weekend only. FORM: London – which takes over Olympia National Hall until 2 March – falls somewhere between massive gallery …

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London Bridge Experience Dieing To Meet You

‘It’s new and it’s bloody scary,’ says the tourist blub. ‘C’est nouveau et terriblement effrayant,’ it repeats in French. Well, you try sounding menacing in that language. ‘Eine neue, unheimlich gruselige Sensation.’ That’s more like it. We prefer the German, especially as ‘die London Bridge …

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Terracotta Triumph

A list of London’s most popular attractions in the last year have been named. The British Museum took first place with almost 5.5 million visitors thanks to the help of a motionless army. Museum heads attributed the 12% spike in visitors to the First Emperor: …

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Preview: The Movieum Museum

There’s a new, rather large, kid on the block. Today, London’s new movie museum, The Movieum (geddit?), has opened its door to the public, catering to the interest of those, who were left wanting, when the Museum of Moving Image (MOMI) was closed in 1999. …

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Extra, Extra

Al Fayed and his Royal Ghouls conspiracy – Macca, Mills and the millions – enough already!! Science Museum specialists to strike over pay… Unsurprising since London’s streets may as well be paved with gold Junior suffrage in action as Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets elected …

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What would 100,000 people chatting online sound like?

If you could get the Sarcasts (Digg), the Grunts (YouTube) and the Silent (Londonist’s forgotten readers’ forum) into a room together, what would you hear? The Science Museum might have the answer. New installation ‘The Listening Post’ slaps up random content from hundreds of chat …

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Arts Ahead

There’s something of a Valentine’s theme to the Arts of choice taking place in the capital this week. But Londonist knows for every young Juliet embracing the idea of timeless romantic love, there’s a Bridget hugging her near-empty vodka bottle, crooning to Chaka Khan. So, …

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The Book Grocer

The book grocer’s coffers are chockfull of goodies this week, so let’s jump right in and get shopping… Monday: Crikey. Take a look at author and critic George Steiner’s publishing credits and you have to wonder whether the man has actually slept in the past …