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Photography by Chris Osburn

Review: The Newly Refurbished Lonsdale

Photography by Chris Osburn Regardless of any economic uncertainties, here in London the posh just seem to keep getting posher … and younger too by the looks of the crowd at The Lonsdale’s refurb launch held last night. Under new ownership, the famed cocktail bar …

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Phoenix Cinema’s Refurbishment Begins

Good news for the best little cinema in London: the Phoenix in East Finchley has finally got enough money for its long-hoped-for renovation (we swear they were collecting when we lived round the corner, and that was four years ago). Work on the outside of …

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London Eye Takes To The Water

By Tarotastic in the Londonist Flickr pool. If you see one of the distinctive pods from the London Eye bobbing along down the Thames, don’t assume some kind of tragic engineering failure. It’s all part of the £12.5 million refurbishment program to get the wheel …

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What Goes On Beneath Leicester Square At 2am?

What happens in a Tube station when all the passengers have gone home? Why do Tube workers carry cards about rat urine? And why isn’t standing on the right of an escalator necessarily a good thing? Londonist finds answers on our latest nocturnal investigation. Some …