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Hells (Blue)Bells

What with all the drinking and smoking, pubbing and clubbing, gigging and ligging, not to mention trying to hunt down old Big Brother housemates with a custom Ted Nugent bow it’s a wonder Londonist ever finds time to stop and smell the flowers. Yet even …

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Extra, Extra

Boycott overpriced food and merchandise at the FA Cup final!!! And take an umbrella. Charity bike ride. They’ll cross that bridge when they come to it, 14 times. Holy smoke! Dean of Southwark not happy with smoking ban. Image courtesy of dartar via the Londonist …

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse

There’s so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it’s almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don’t have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist’s London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also …

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London twinned with Chernobyl

Let’s get straight into this one: Moving from Inverness to the more polluted streets of Central London could have worse consequences for your health than choosing to live in the contaminated exclusion zone around Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. What the …

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Extra, Extra: Combating Social Ills Edition

Edgware Road shisha cafe’s and the ban on smoking. Something’s gotta give. Boxing postman and the campaign against binge drinking. We love local news. London Marathon and a solution to its litter problem. Lorry drivers and the campaign to kill fewer cyclists. And UK immigration …

Elsewhere in the Ist-iverse

Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We’re exhausted just thinking about it. First up, SFist, who saw their little ‘ole site be the center of what was a nice little scandal …

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St Pancras ♥ Grand Central

Well this is rather splendid. St Pancras Station is likely to be twinned with the iconic Grand Central in New York: London & Continental said the twinning would be an historic agreement, linking two of the world’s most architecturally impressive train stations. Well we do …

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Where The Art Is At Oval House

While some have stuck to their New Year resolutions from day one of 2007, some have yet to get round to resolution number one which is to stop procrastinating and get on with quitting smoking / cutting down on drinking / doing more exercise / …

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Londonist Talks To A Man About Stickers

A man emailed us to tell us about his website . It’s a website that helps people swap football stickers. It didn’t strike us as having an instant correlation with London, but then we thought that there are people in London who buy sticker albums …

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I thought we were going to die now

More details have come out from the trial of the men involved in the July 21 failed bomb attack: Ms Baro told the court: “I was in such a panic. I did not know how a bomb worked and I thought we were going to …

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Alright kids, Goodfinger tonight!

We can’t ignore a band with a lead singer called Scrappy Calloway and it’s a bonus that we fell in love with her voice the second we heard it. Goodfinger from New York play Bar Rumba tonight and we’re going to go along to see …