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Quick, quick: it’s your last chance to get hold of tickets to this weekend’s Skin Exposed event at Wellcome Collection – a “two-part ‘skin-posium’ to explore nakedness in all its guises” as they say. Friday is literary and Saturday is delightfully multidisciplinary. Call 020 7611 …

It’s taken five weeks, but finally, one of the fourth plinth-dwellers in Trafalgar Square has done what any self-respecting exhibitionist, not to mention Mr Gormley himself, would do, and stripped down to the buff. The man, identified only as ‘Simon M’, got his kit off …

Ahh, we love a good naked headline here at Londonist. Sadly, the nuns in question don’t appear to in the wimple wearing habit, but when did such factual frippery slow us down? To the real story then: 18 members of Capital NUNS – a London …

The Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park opens today and there is much hoo-ha elsewhere about money and art, the market, the business and the meaning of it all especially during the current financial crisis (can we still call it that or has it settled …

A special two-for-one offer on gig reviews this time. Londonist saw the slightly odd combination of Gorgoroth (old-school Norwegian black metal) at Scala on Wednesday, and former System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian the next night at the Astoria. Musically they were worlds apart, …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th November 1983: An armed robbery at the Brinks Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport becomes the largest heist in British history, as £25 million worth of gold bullion is pinched. Tuesday – 27th November 2000: 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola …

After an extended holiday, Saturday Cinema Summary is back, courtesy of James Bryan… This week Ridley Scott makes a bid to join the hallowed greats of gangster films with American Gangster, the naked pixelated form of Angelina Jolie drips in gold in Beowulf and Brick …

This weekend, Rowan Walker wrote in the Observer of her torturous but strangely addictive experience of training at the Islington Boxing Gym to raise awareness of the fierce campaign to get female boxing recognised as an Olympic Sport for the 2012 Games in London. According …

We’re gob-smacked we are that Brits have a bad bed rep. As far as the eye can see, quite literally, we’re about as randy as a canine on heat. Sexual sighting number one: freshers strip during freshers week – now that sure is an original …

Avid weekend readers of this site may be interested to know that tomorrow (Sunday) sees the annual get together to commemorate would have been Kirsty MacColl’s upcoming birthday. Londonist has always had a soft spot for Kirsty that has continued after her death in 2000. …