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Posted by MattFromLondonist about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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We’re putting on the first Londonist quiz, where all questions are about London.
24 July, Old Queen’s Head, Essex Road
From 8pm, upstairs.
Prizes include, but are not limited to, a selection of books about London, some bubbly, your own blue plaque and any tickets we can blag from event organisers.
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Posted 7 months ago 1 response
When Kudocities met Londonist, it was like the first time Posh Spice and David Beckham’s eyes met: mutual media advantage at first sight.
Londonist presents a fine blog about this fine city, so we thought it would be great if we could join together and provide Kudocities members with a regular peek into Londonist’s take on London life; while those lovely Londonistas are looking for fresh content from you – the evil borg that is the Kudocities membership.
We asked Hazel Tsoi and Lindsey Clarke, (Kudocities’ very own stella) Editors at Londonist, to explain what the site’s all about.
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Posted 7 months ago 4 responses
Cast your beautiful peepers below for the first of many daily feeds we are taking from the kindly bloggers at londonist.com. We hope our new partnership with Londonist enhances your life, like a good session with a packet of floss and some tooth whitener.
There was so much crazy action in the mayoral campaign last week that Londonist was left gasping to keep up. The most entertaining bit was when Boris Johnson launched his environment manifesto with a photo opportunity on Hampstead Heath. BBC London viewers and others were treated to the splendid sight of The Blond hacking his way through a patch of north London undergrowth – perhaps specially provided for the occasion, who knows? – wearing that mildly self-satirising expression we all know and some love, but which he probably needs to keep off his face between now and 1st May.
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
In the week that Doris’ crack gets filled in, Tate Modern has announced plans for a rethink of the building’s river-facing facade. Between May and August, a group of the world’s most acclaimed street artists will be allowed to daub their designs across designated 15×12 metre areas on the north side of the former power station, the first time the exterior has been used in such a way.Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 2 responses
For London’s business and financial elite, the pink pages of the Financial Times are the only thing to be seen reading on the morning commute to work. However, the FT’s sturdy grip on matters monetary will be challenged when the Wall Street Journal goes on sale later this month.
From April 16th, the US edition of the paper, printed right here in London, will be sold by 250 newsagents in the City, Canary Wharf and the West End, along with Heathrow and London City airports. New proprietor Rupert Murdoch is keen to raise the worldwide profile of his latest acquisition, and landing it squarely on the doorstep of the FT will extend to newsprint the battle the two venerable titles are currently waging online. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
Hundreds of commuters were stuck underground for nearly 3 hours last night, their hometime ruined by a power failure on the Jubilee Line. As usual, such bad news doesn’t make it onto TfL’s website but the BBC report that Blitz spirit prevailed with resigned passengers sharing food and seats while the unfortunate driver kept them up to date with… well, not very much really. ‘Read More”:http://londonist.com/2008/04/detrainment_and_2.php
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
Having previously interviewed Sian Berry, the standard-bearer for the Greens now currently in a pact (electoral, not economic or suicide we assume) with Labour’s Ken Livingstone, Londonist sent a set of common questions out to (most of) the other candidates in the May 1st mayoral election. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 1 response
The Olympic Torch Relay is all over the news this morning for the wrong reasons as far as the organisers and host country are concerned. Was the police presence over egged or was security not tight enough? Were the pro-Tibetan demonstrators treated unfairly and corralled into tight corners when pro-Chinese people were allowed to freely line the streets and wave their flags? Can you separate Olympic values from that of its host country? Did anyone actually see the Olympic flame anyway? And did the Sugababes get all girlie and bottle it at the last minute? Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 0 responses
Just as concern about our disaffected youth seems to be getting absurdly out of control and becoming a despairingly permanent fixture on our news radar, along comes a media friendly academic to reassure us that it has ever been thus. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
Back of the net! Londonist’s favourite gargantuan timepiece, Big Ben, is basking in glory this morning, after being voted Britain’s most-loved landmark. Beating off the prehistoric monument and UNESCO World Heritage site Stonehenge into second, The Clock Tower was one of six London attractions to make the top 10. Read more
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
We wouldn’t normally advocate Facebook groups,but this is one you HAVE to sign up to.
You just have to. How amazing would this be? So now Life in Cold Blood is over, and the great man has hung up his broadcasting boots for good, what better tribute than to replace the starchy, boring voice on the London Underground with the silky, enthusiastic utterances of Sir David Attenborough. We’d finally learn what lives beneath Warren…READ MORE
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Posted 7 months ago 5 responses
With the impending financial crunch staring us down and cautioning a wiser approach to spending, it’s good to know that the moneyed Londoner still has ample opportunity to disgorge his or her cash on the finer things. Case in point: a Sloane Square department store is selling cat-excreted coffee for £50 a cup. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 2 responses
Still a newcomer to the city festival circuit, Field Day returns for a second year to Hackney’s Victoria Park on 9 August 2008. The recently announced line-up looks like it should provide a diverse sampling of some of our favourite acts. How could we miss a party that Richie Hawtin, Dan Deacon, The Field and Jeffrey Lewis are rockin’? Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 3 responses
In the relentless battle against anti-social behaviour and juvenile crime on our public transport we’ve reported on 999 text hotlines and genuine gansters brought in to educate the kids. We’ve had local heroes, PCSOs, poster campaigns and overzealous bus drivers. Now, apparently, we need God. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 0 responses
O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
That would be the ‘20 per cent off’ leg of lamb in the freezer section Hamlet is trying to defrost in time for Sunday lunch… And that’s pretty much the kind of thing you can expect to bump into if you go to Supermarket Shakespeare in Lee Green this weekend and the beginning of next week. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 2 responses
Has the final wheel come off Boris Johnson’s ‘New Routemaster’ policy? The good thing about it was that it came with a promise to restore conductors to the routes currently served by the bendy buses Johnson wants to replace: a bus with a conductor is a friendlier bus, a friendlier bus is a
safer bus and so on. Problem is, Johnson has no grip on the economics of the plan, even weeks after he first came unstuck on the subject. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 2 responses
Credit crunch, you say? Bah, we’re having none of it. Shops in the West End have punched above their weight so far this year: according to a new report from the British Retail Consortium, retail sales in London grew 10.5% in February, up from 3.8% in January, while footfall on the city’s major shopping streets recorded a 4.3% year on year rise for March. All this in a climate where the national market is looking particularly glum – a 1.6% drop in sales was announced last week. Read More
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Posted 7 months ago 1 response
It is “Walk to Work Day” on Thursday April 24, organised by the charity Living Streets, that campaigns for better streets and public spaces for pedestrians … but similar ‘alternative means of transport’ days for Monday 28 and Tuesday 29 April as organised by Bob Crow and the Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union have been cancelled. It is indeed a Good Idea to walk more – it is healthier, cheaper, more… READ MORE
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Posted 7 months ago 0 responses
That certain night, the night we met,
There was magic abroad in the air.
There were angels dining at the Ritz
And a nightingale sang in Berk’ley Square
Ah, the romance! Vera Lynn immortalised this posh garden square back in the 1920s, but today it’s hit the news for one specific, value-for-lots-of-money, tree.
The Victorian plane tree, stretching a impressive 6ft circumference, has been valued at a staggering £750,000 in calculations to decide whether or not to chop the old fella down. Read More
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