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Jade Ewan, London contest in Your Country Needs You

Your London Needs You! Interview With Jade

Jade Ewen, Your Country Needs You Andrew Lloyd Webber has reached the final in his search to find a singer for his Eurovision song. On Saturday evening, Mark Evans, twins Francine & Nicola and Jade Ewen will compete to be the UK’s Eurovision entrant for …

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Andrew Lloyd Webber Gets Genius Gong. Not Evil Genius.

The Dark Lord of Musical Theatre, funny faced “genius“, Andrew Lloyd Webber, last night scooped a Classical Brit for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Andrew (as he likes to be called on his website), who was 60 this March, has been ubiquitous in the West End …

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It’s That Film Quiz Time Of Year

It’s that time of year again. Time for Christmas shopping, panto and end-of-year pub quizzes. Ah, December. In their last film pub quiz spectacular or the year, the You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat team has pulled out all the stops, and you’d best brush …

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Londonist Live: Gorgoroth, Serj Tankian

A special two-for-one offer on gig reviews this time. Londonist saw the slightly odd combination of Gorgoroth (old-school Norwegian black metal) at Scala on Wednesday, and former System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian the next night at the Astoria. Musically they were worlds apart, …

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The Saturday Strangeness

11. Spring Heeled Jack: A Chronicle of Chaos “But most of all did he dwell upon some mysterious blazing entity that shook and laughed and mocked at him.” Beyond The Wall Of Sleep – H. P. Lovecraft Supernatural? Invader from space? Prankster? Hysteria? Spring Heeled …

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Comical Justice

Violent crime is on the rise in London and you can’t pick up a paper or turn on the news without the latest report of stabbings, beatings, muggings and even murder. It’s disturbing that the Justice system, crippled by overcrowded jails and soft sentencing guidelines, …

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Extra, Extra

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Baby boy circumcised, dies

BBC: Police are investigating the death of a baby boy who suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after he was circumcised. The boy began having breathing problems at Golders Green United Synagogue, in north London, on 1 February. He was taken to a hospital nearby but …

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Culture Crawl

The Londonist weekly Culture Crawl is crawling with things to see, do and enjoy: this week, we have dogs, more fireworks (but not dogs AND fireworks combined because that would be unpleasant) and the first mention of Christmas shopping. Let’s start with some wagging tails… …

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ICA & Frightfest Halloween doublebill and Allnighter

Frightfest have teamed up with the ICA to put on a bit of a Halloween bash: It’s time to put on make-up, it’s time to light the lights, it’s time to get things started on The Feebles show tonight! Yes, Peter Jackson’s grotesque Muppet-style marvel …

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IMAX LOTR

Tomorrow and Saturday the BFI IMAX is hosting a couple of all-nighters dedicated to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. These are the original theatrical 35mm versions meaning that they’re still way too long, but not quite as way too long as the extended …