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Review: Literary Death Match Episode 7

Spawned in New York by host Todd Zuniga, Literary Death Match shakes up erudition and silliness cocktail style, luring the young and trendy out by mixing good and geeky times with the literary, light and louche. We returned for Episode 7 to see how London …

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Want To Write For Londonist?

Let’s face it, we need you. Fresh ideas and fresh voices are the lifeblood of Londonist. Without them, we end up wallowing in cliché, like using this image of Lord Kitchener for a recruitment drive. Lame, eh? So we’re looking for new writers to join …

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July Is For Book Lovers

Diaries out, bibliophiles. Festival season is almost upon us. No, not the festival season that will have you rolling around in mud or throwing your pants at the stage (well, you could throw your pants at the stage, and we’d certainly provide moral support for …

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Is Martin Amis a Blogophobe?

Blogophobia: an irrational fear, intolerance of, or aversion to the blogosphere. Martin Amis has been accused of far worse, but after hearing him talk at RADA yesterday evening, this was the only accusation we felt it safe to lodge against him. The offending remark came …

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The Book Grocer

Even on its quietest weeks, London is something of a happy haven for bibliophiles such as ourselves, though we may be doing nothing more than perusing one of the city’s many lovely bookshops. This week, however, we’re in a veritable book geek heaven, as the …

Week Around the -Ists

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, …

Week Around the -Ists

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed …

Week Around the -Ists

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses …

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Londonist Interviews … London Graffiti Artist Tek33

If you’ve spent any amount of time at all in East London, then you’re no doubt familiar with graffiti artist Tek33’s chunky, spray painted pitchforks. Asked what motivates the artist to “throw-up”, he explains that he does it for the buzz, that he has a …

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The Book Grocer

Just out the Van: “Writers write. Actors read. Audiences listen. Everybody wins…” at the Liars’ League next Tuesday. Six stories stretch from last century to the end of the earth including work from Kay Sexton, Toby Smith, Andrew Lloyd-Jones, hosted by David Mildon and the …

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Eat, Drink and Be… Generous

This Thursday, the Oxfam book shop on Marylebone High Street will be holding another of its super foodie nights. This is the charity’s flagship London bookshop and is a treat for philanthropic bibliophiles: new and anitquarian books, CDs, vinyl, videos and DVDs can be found …