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Northern Line Hotter Than Usual

Between Morden and High Barnet travel the sexiest passengers on the network according to the results of Qype’s Love on the Tube survey. About 300 people completed the cheeky survey and the prevailing wisdom is the Northern Line’s where it’s at for ‘spiky-haired indie kids’ …

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17 Boxes Of Smut From The Euston Road

Libraries and whores are not natural bedfellows. Yet in the Wellcome Library on Euston Road you can work your way though more loose women than Genghis Khan on his gap year. The centre holds the world’s foremost collection of tart cards — those colourful adverts …

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Go Forth And Let’s Talk About Sex

Seems the purpose of marriage for the jolly old Church of England is no longer simply ‘go forth and procreate’. In a post Valentine’s, pre-Leap Year PR stunt the CofE released “Growing Together – the course“, aimed at making church leaders better at preparing aspirant …

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The Book Grocer: Valentine’s Events Preview

Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …

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Long-Lived, Our Noble Queen

Her Majesty The Queen is now the oldest monarch Britain has ever enjoyed. Hang on, that sounds pervy. Let’s try again. Queen Elizabeth II today becomes the oldest British monarch. That’s better. The AFP, taking no chances that she might die overnight, filed the story …

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Londonist At Office Party Xmas 2007

There have been big changes at Londonist this year – we’ve had new staff, a new commenting system and a brand new tagging system installed so we had a lot to celebrate at the Christmas party. And as we’re not keen on making trouble for …

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St Trinians Premiere

The legendary girls from St Trinians had their premiere last night in Leicester Square. St Trinian’s is the 2007 film of the 1950s film series is getting certain bits of the press excited, with a cast that features Rupert Everett in drag, Russell Brand twatting …

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New Playground Game May Harm Kids

London is getting more dangerous by the day ladies and gentlemen. It’s not enough that a quick trip down Oxford Street is going to leave you gasping like a floundering flounder on the deck of a homeward bound fishing trawler, now you can’t even grab …

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Sperm Supplier Seeks Sympathy for Stork Support

Five years ago, Sharon and Terri Arnold solicited firefighter Andy Bathie’s help in starting a family. Under the assurance that he would bear no financial or emotional responsibility for the children’s upbringing, he twice obliged. The women had a boy and a girl, but broke …

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An Artistic One Night Stand

The provocative title is not simply a cheap trick like putting “SEX!!!!1!” across the top of a flyer to catch people’s attention for carpet cleaning equipment. The One Night Stand With… series is quite literally one night with a specially commissioned artist at VINEspace, an …

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Week Around the -Ists

The cold weather – and holiday festivities – descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times Square. There were disturbing photographs revealing the working conditions in which many …