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This week’s round up features yummy stuff from around the world – and it’s all here in London!

This afternoon at the time when hundreds of people were also gathering in Tel Aviv, 30 to 40 people, mostly friends and friends of friends gathered by email and via facebook, came together in Soho Square for an impromptu vigil in support of the victims …

This Sunday afternoon will see the streets of the West End crammed. Soho Pride, the smaller, younger (prettier?) cousin of London Pride will see street parties and all sorts around the central gay district of town off Old Compton Street and Rupert Street, including the …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 7th January 1927: The first commercial transatlantic telephone service is launched, connecting London and New York. Tuesday – 8th January 1991: A packed rush hour train carrying over one thousand commuters collides with the buffers at Cannon Street …

Avid weekend readers of this site may be interested to know that tomorrow (Sunday) sees the annual get together to commemorate would have been Kirsty MacColl’s upcoming birthday. Londonist has always had a soft spot for Kirsty that has continued after her death in 2000. …

With gay pride hitting London this weekend for its annual raunchfest of protesting, parading and partying, we thought it the right time to approach Megan Jones, promoter of Vauxhall house music mega-club FiRE, to find out what they will be getting up to. What are …

Kirsty MacColl’s final album was the rather wonderfully Cuban-influenced Tropical Brainstorm which included the 2000 hit ‘In these Shoes’. Her career had always had its fair share of ups and downs, but a disproportionate amount of her seminal work (either her own songs or cover …

And so over to Soho Square, home of New Media, the Football Association and a strange garden shed. 1927 and 2007. From this angle, looking eastward, alterations to the square appear minimal. Only the buildings to the extreme left and right have changed. The two …

…from Westminster Council, who were less than impressed at his latest bout of street art. The notorious rat-fancier vexed the local authority by depositing an unorthodox red phone box in the Soho Square area a couple of days ago. Dead, or grievously maimed, the K6 …

Last week, the FA’s David Barber showed that whilst he may know a thing or two about stats, he’s not much cop at the predictions game. A paltry two out of six for David, who’ll have been trying to avoid bumping into Trevor Brooking in …