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Spy Versus Spy

At Londonist, we’re no strangers to international espionage. Regular readers, or even irregular ones, might recall that we recently interviewed Rocky, the spying rock from Moscow. And he’s since become a firm, if disturbingly igneous friend. Last week he introduced us to this pair of …

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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. We’re pretty much just gonna get right to it this week…See below for your events, your new releases, and your news of dead and fake …

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Interview: Rocky, The Spying Rock

In the past few days a row has broken out between Britain and Russia over claims that our secret service used a covert transmitter disguised as a rock (pictured) to pass messages to agents. We here at Londonist are always eager to get to the …

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The Best Curry In London?

Hot Stuff is a small anonymous restaurant, so small and anonymous in fact that, on first glance, it hardly seems fair to describe it as a ‘restaurant’. Anyone walking down Wilcox Road (itself a rather nondescript thoroughfare that connects the South Lambeth Road to the …

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Great Moments in Fictional Terrorism

A handsome bearded blonde fellow is seen coming up from the underground public toilets near Clapham Junction train station. He crosses the road, bumping into and eyeing up a couple of girls on the way, and enters the Arding and Hobbs department store. He walks …

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The Best Musical Everrrrrrrrrr

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Big Lebowski Big Night Out

To the ranks of Singalonga Sound of Music at the Prince Charles and the regular Rocky Horror and Ghostbusters tributes at the Genesis Cinema in Stepney, we can now add … “The Dude Abides”, the annual Big Lebowski tribute night at the Streatham Megabowl. Although …