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You don’t hear from a part of London for ages, and then two news stories come along at once. Hello Richmond!

Damian Aspinall is trying to make gambling a 2012 event. Monet news: yet another lily is to be auctioned, whilst researchers have worked out exactly where he was standing when he painted Waterloo Bridge. ‘Bout that wind turbine in the Olympic Park: it’s been scrapped. …

We fell across a jewel on Youtube from last Bonfire Night and, well, we thought we’d share. Some bright spark (arf) apparently decided to find out what it’s like to be a burning Guy on a bonfire. So, building the Guy, they made one major …

Have you any idea how hard it it to write a story about public urination without some sort of pun in the title? Have you? No, we didn’t think so. Ah, the trials of frivolous blogging. Anyway, news reaches us today of a brave and …

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 …

If you could get the Sarcasts (Digg), the Grunts (YouTube) and the Silent (Londonist’s forgotten readers’ forum) into a room together, what would you hear? The Science Museum might have the answer. New installation ‘The Listening Post’ slaps up random content from hundreds of chat …

A group of masked protesters will gather outside the Church of Scientology’s centres in London on Sunday morning at 11am, starting at the centre on Queen Victoria St before moving on to the Goodge St location. But what has prompted this IRL display of anger? …

Macabre London: First, man denies murdering model but admits to necrophilia; then a headless corpse turns up in northwest London. We find ourselves suspiciously eyeing other commuters on our Tube ride home this evening. Corrupt London: We know that London is ranked first on all …

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… After its Statue of Liberty beheading sensation of a trailer, the internet-hyped Cloverfield finally arrives. For the uninitiated, the film follows a group of young hip New Yorkers whose loft party is rudely interrupted …

Ken Livingstone’s certainly had a tough few weeks. For starters, Boris Johnson finally began to get his act together on a few fronts. He’s got a new website, a new team, and he’s had some success in generating noise around policy issues – most notably, …