The War

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Comedy Preview: War on Want charity gig, Thursday 21st

We wanted to promote tomorrow’s charity comedy night for War on Want at Shepherds Bush Empire for two reasons. Firstly, because it is going to be a spectacular night, with some remarkable comedians, in aid of a very good cause. And secondly, because their press …

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London Protest: Down With This Sort Of Thing

Londonist loves a good protest; they’re excellent for the constitution. Nothing like a nice amble all the way from Speaker’s Corner to Trafalgar Square with 60,000 (or 2,000, or 100,000, depending on who you listen to) of your fellow Londoners, while carrying an “amusingly” modified …

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A Grave-y Exhibition

Although fine arts are less our forte than appaling puns, Londonist nonetheless found itself wandering along the South Bank on Saturday, email print out in one hand, friend in the other, searching for the Oxo Tower and Bargehouse and War Child‘s Picture This exhibition. Admittedly …

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The Thames Valley Catastophe

Every now and then the most banal Google search can throw up the bizarre, the disturbing and the sublime. This humble Londonista was trying to find out about housing in the Thames Estuary floodplain. How delicious, then, to stumble across a description of the destruction …

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Friday Film News

This week: Munich, Hidden, and The New World plus film news and gossip. It seems that this week is a good week to go to the pictures, but we’re going to start off with one of the least raved about films of the week, Munich, …

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Peace Mom

We just got a press release from the Stop the War Coalition regarding the one woman show ‘Peace Mom’ based on Cindy Sheehan’s efforts to find out why her son had to die in Iraq: Italian Nobel-Winning Playwright Dario Fo to attend with Cindy Sheenhan …

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Monday Music Review

They may not have made it into Channel 4′s greatest gigs of all time but for the 130 000 who made it, it was probably pretty damn close, for the rest of us there’s this: Green Day – Bullet In A Bible (Live CD/DVD) (Reprise) …

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Happy Birthday BT Tower

The BT Tower is 40 years old today! Staff at the tower are marking the celebration with a party , so if we hear of a rash of fatalities in the West End caused by vol-au-vents thrown from 620ft above ground level, we’ll know that …

DHL Plays The Last Post In East London

The War on Hoodies intensified this week. After losing the Battle of Bluewater, the shadowy forces of maleficence have regrouped to score a minor victory over DHL. Reports from the front line suggest that the delivery firm has been sorely routed in parts of London, …