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News From The Ist-a-verse

As we sat down to write this week’s Best of the -ists post, a car blaring “21 Questions’” passed by our house. And that started us thinking about how some of the best -ist posts out there have at their hearts questions, some of which …

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Our Subway Looks More Like A Tangle Of Neurons Than Yours

Neat nerd site for you. The world’s subway systems presented on the same scale. (We’ve pasted in SF, London, Paris and New York above, for comparison.) As well as a disingenuous means of mocking the French for their capital’s pea-sized hairy testicle of a network, …

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Fest fulls of Sci Fi & Asia Extreme

Quick note for you to scribble into your Time Lord branded diary: SCI-FI-LONDON 26 – 30 April. This year the festival is partnered up with SFX magazine whose editor, David Bradley, sums up the event quite nicely: “SCI-FI-LONDON is growing in prominence every year, and …

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Polanski’s Oliver – The Verdict

A lot of the US papers are carrying reviews of Roman Polanski’s Oliver today so we thought we’d bring you a bit of a roundup of what they’re saying. We’ll kick off though with the only UK paper to get in on the act so …

Londonist On The Streets

Londonist is very proud to announce that, as of next week, a little bit of our humble online presence will be transferred on to the tough streets of the capital. On 14 April the new, independent paper for London, the London Line, will hit the …

London Line

Now this is interesting. It looks like London is going to get itself a new weekly newspaper. Most media watchers have been taken by surprise by the announcement that a 24 page colour newspaper, The London Line, will be available next month. Aimed at 20 …