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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It’s a busy old week, so let’s get on: Tonight May Contain Graphic Content poses the question “Are graphic novels a complex and creative new …

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Culture Crawl

Join the Village Fete at V & A – for tonight, the museum will be taken over by over 30 creative types who will be running stalls, activities and other village fete style stuff. Tombola, fish and chips, freaky vegetable competitions and body painting will …

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Weekend Culture Crawl – Sunday and Monday

We gave you the schedule for Friday and Saturday yesterday and you shouldn’t be either bored or out of pocket by the end of it (just keep an eye on the time and keep going). If you’re still thirsting for things to see and do, …

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New Music Interview : Infantjoy

Formed out of members of Art of Noise & The Auteurs, we first came across Infantjoy while wallowing in ‘OMG SARAH NIXEY IS BACK!!!111!!’ induced glee a few months ago. Guest starring on their working of ‘Silent Night’, we were intrigued by this duo who …

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Swinging Bank Holiday On South Bank

The Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer is normally full of QEH attendees milling around awkwardly before taking their seats in the auditorium, sipping warm gin and tonics and avoiding eye contact with one another in that peculiar London theatre audience way… but this sunny Bank Holiday …

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Souk on South Bank With Swing

If you’re in London for the Bank Holiday weekend but would have quite liked to have gone abroad, then head to South Bank where you can pretend you’re in Morocco from Friday until Monday. To celebrate the UK debut of Taoub, a new circus and …

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Warning: Unexploded Mimes

The threat has been noted before by Londonist: there may come a day post-7th July when visitors stay away in such high numbers that the city’s redundant entertainers are driven underground to wait for the day the tourists come back to be amazed by their …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Yes, there is a new novel out by Nadine Gordimer this week (along with a serious slew of others). But early reports are leading us …

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John Peel Day Approaches

In 7 days time on the anniversary of his last radio broadcast, the BBC will be commemorating and celebrating the life of the man known on his birth certificate as John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, but to music lovers the world over as John Peel. On …

Patti Smith’s Meltdown: Update

Those of you going to or considering going to Patti Smith’s Meltdown, taking place from 11th to 26th June at the South Bank Centre, will be as interested as Londonist Music to hear that Eels have (has?) been added to the line-up. They/he will be …