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Saturday Cinema Summary

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Bee Movie, Enchanted, We Own The Night, Youth Without Youth, Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and It’s A Wonderful Life. And if you’re too busy to even read a review of reviews then …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

What with Paris Hilton’s release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we’ve been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we’re happy we’ve been …

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Notes From The City

Much as the incarcerated writers of the Londonist Music Dungeon enjoy relaying our recommendations on music, we can never shake off the mantra murmured to us by our inner voices: ‘music writers are failed musicians’. So it’s with great pleasure that we start a column …

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Hazel: Body, Mind and Soul

First of all, I’d do something for the body: a gentle mid-morning run around Hyde Park with preferably no interference from the speakers at Speakers’ Corner and lots of interaction with adorable over-excited, waggy-tailed dogs. These dogs do not leave poo on the park paths …

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Ink The Pink

It’s getting so that you can’t see a trend setting London lass bend over these days without a scrawl of tribal swirls rising above the thong line, just daring you to ask: Is that a Hawaiian?. No longer is it socially unacceptable to have I …

Blight At The End Of The Tunnel

Is it just Londonist, or does the proposal to extend mobile phone coverage into Tube stations have some of the makings of a disappointing development? It would obviously be useful to be able to inform colleagues and loved ones of delays, previously the Underground has …

Victory For Hampstead Bathers

What can we say…apart from maybe “Thanks God that’s over with”? The Hampstead Heath Winter Swimming Club have finally won their case to use the ponds in the winter (although, why they couldn’t have just changed the name of the club to Hampstead Heath Summer …

TV Sets and The City – The American David Brent?

Curb Your Enthusiasm We’re still be waiting to see whether the American version of The Office (The Office: An American Workplace) will really take off in the States. However, in the meantime HBO has a sort of glamourous version of The Office with Curb Your …