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Big Ben Worthy Of Its Name

The Frisky, a “daily romp on the wild side”, hasn’t been on our radar before but they’ve made believers of us with their list of the Seven Phallic Wonders Of The Modern World. A paean to the priapic, an engorging engaging collection of modern erections …

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Extra, Extra

Baking on the 2012 Cupcake has begun…. …just as information comes to light about an Olympic ticket sales scam. And it has been announced that the 2012 Olympic torch will not be travelling the world: a more modest tour of the UK is proposed. Tower …

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Tower Bridge Brought Down To Size

Our very own Londonist Eye finally has a friend: Essex man Michael Williams has constructed a model of Tower Bridge out of matchsticks. While our own effort was knocked out in the space of a half hour, using a motley collection of pipe cleaners, straws …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 30th June 1894: Tower Bridge is opened by the Prince of Wales. It would become an iconic symbol of London, and arguably the most well-recognised ‘bascule bridge’ in the world (even if tourists do sometime mistake it for …

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Testing the Telectroscope

Image courtesy of randydandy via the Londonist Flickr pool Right, so Gothamist isn’t returning our phone calls, and we can only assume that they’re not going to take us up on our Telectroscope dance challenge. Chickens. Dance-off or not, we wanted to check out the …

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Touch Up London #87

People are always moaning that London makes insufficient use of the Thames. Well, with a bit of Tower Bridge tweaking, we could build a new port for cruise liners within the Pool of London. Imagine taking the QM2 right into the heart of the City. …

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Tower Bridge Twitters, Fails to Titillate

We mentioned this in passing last month, but it took until now for the sheer silliness of this “news” to truly sink into Londonist’s brain. An anthropomorphized Tower Bridge has taken to Twittering – you know, that little micro-blogging tool whereby folks can share with …

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London Challenges NYC to Dance-Off … Via Telescope?

A preview of Londonist’s dance moves? A secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at …

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Iconic Bridge Gets Lick Of Paint

Tower Bridge will be treated to a £4 million facelift over the next four years. Beginning in the summer, the Victorian landmark will be stripped of paint and redaubed with blue and white. At the same time, ugly sister Southwark Bridge will receive a fresh …

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Touch Up London #84

Another entry from Roll the Dice, showing a cunning method of crossing Tower Bridge without being stopped by tourists. Check out more Touch Ups in our archive and, if you feel inspired, send in your own photoshopped imagery of the capital to londonist – at …

An Interview With Black Cab Sessions

We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we’re biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin’ out …