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Moving story
8.05.2010
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Tired of London
3.03.2010
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Bike theft
3.03.2010
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The Northern Line That Never Was
24.12.2009
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Oyster fiasco finally ends
30.11.2009
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Attack of the Killer Mosquitoes
14.08.2009
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An Underground ticket seller writes
13.07.2009
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Weekend tube map
2.06.2009
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Boris nearly taken out by flying car
26.05.2009
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Oystercard in meltdown
10.08.2008
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Smithfield market saved (for now)
10.08.2008
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London danger words
25.07.2008
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Oystercard system crashes
16.07.2008
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Rebuild the Skylon
7.07.2008
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Tube piss-up goes horribly wrong - shock
1.06.2008
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London News

Pair forced six children to beg
A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest of whom was aged two, to beg in London.
Protesters call for G20 charges
Activists gather in central London to demand charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests.
Coroner raises rail safety fears
A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the Potters Bar train crash.
Sex parties banned at mansion
The High Court bans a man from staging sex parties and pole-dancing classes at his mansion in central London.
Boys 'hunted' for man to murder
Four teenagers who killed a man in 90 seconds to avenge humiliation on a "rival" estate in south-east London are given life sentences.
London saddles up for bike hire
A bike hire scheme designed to encourage thousands more cycle journeys in central London begins.
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The Londonist

A New Radio Station for London: Ronnie Scotts FM
London's favourite jazz club is turning a rather splendid 50 this year, and they have all sorts planned by ...
 
Extra, Extra
A more acceptable form of busking. Photo / .Lily Man arrested for attacking a cycle hire bike. ...
 
Preview: Keats In Hampstead @ Keats House
Site specific performances are two a penny in London, with some making excellent use of interesting spaces and others ...
 
Art Preview: London Transport Posters @ MoMA New York
For anybody in Manhattan over the next few months (or indeed any Noo Yawkers interested in transport design), the ...
 

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Museum Of The Month: The Seti I Sarcophagus At Sir John Soane's Museum
Image courtesy of Sir John Soane's Museum. A closer look at one of the key exhibits at ...
 
Preview: CAMRA Great British Beer Festival 2010
The Great British Beer Festival, which kicks off next week at Earls Court, inspires superlatives from its promoters. ...
 
STYLEist: The Rising Designer Interviews - Georgia Nash
   ]]>London's taste for the eclectic and avant-garde keeps it firmly at the frontiers of fashion - creating the perfect, fertile environment ...
 
Olympics Move Into The Fast Lane
VIP lanes look set to cause disruption for London's motorists during the Olympics, when around 60 miles of roads ...
 
Friday Quiz: Stuff On The Streets Of London
With today's launch of the cycle hire network, it is tempting to theme our end-of-week quiz around all things ...
 
London Cigar Scene: Whisky and Cigars by Robert Graham Ltd
Photography by Nic Wing Londonist often likes to take a small dram to accompany a fine Cuban ...
 
What's On In London This Weekend? 30 July - 1 August
What are you up to this weekend? Here's a round up of our recommendations and a smattering of suggestions to help ...
 
First Ride: The Cycle Hire Scheme (UPDATED)
       ]]>The first thing to note is: the cycle hire scheme works. We rocked up to a station in Shoreditch at a ...
 
Cycle Hire Bikes Installed This Evening
      ]]>Ambling through Spitalfields of an evening, we just spotted some guys installing the Cycle Hire bikes at a station on Commercial ...
 
Extra Extra
Local traffic be damned: 'Games Lanes' will be introduced on roads across London during the Olympics The Met has ...
 
Deckchairs Decked Out By Designers
UK artists and designers, among them hat designer Philip Treacy and cartoonist Ronald Searle have been invited to create ...
 
Theatre Review: Anne Boleyn @ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Miranda Raison shines as Anne Boleyn in Howard Brenton's new play. Photo by Manuel Harlan "Do you ...
 

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Preview: Hackney Wicked 2010
This weekend, the third Hackney Wicked festival takes over the Olympic buffer zone of Hackney Wick. This proud local ...
 
Fortean London: Headless in St James's Park
Queen Anne asks "I Can Has Brandy?" via Southcoasting In our final entry of 'spooky open spaces ...
 
Zeppelin Airship Attacks On London: Mapped
A plaque on Farringdon Road marks the site of one Zeppelin attack. A quarter of a century ...
 
Squirrel Steak For Sale
Squirrel on a grave by Matt From London, with permission Squirrels: could you eat a whole ...
 
London On The Cheap: 29 July - 4 August
Visit the ViewTube - image by McTumshie - and participate in London 2012 fever Saving up for ...
 
Hunger Striker Earns Meal Ticket
Image / Craig Richardson One of the two students who went on hunger strike during the Tamil ...
 
Lions of London #36
London has the largest litter of lions in the world. A magnificent pride their history goes back 120,000 years. ...
 
What's The Best Cycle Hire App?
Screenshot from London Cycle App Just one day now before the cycle hire scheme launches, and already ...
 
Mark Hughes To Become Fulham Manager
Fulham are reportedly prepared to offer their vacant manager's chair to Mark Hughes, after first-choice target Martin Jol turned ...
 
Metro Bank Opens In Holborn
The doors of the first brand new Metro Bank branch "store" finally swished open at 8am this morning. Opening ...
 
Technical Troubles Mar New Victoria Line Trains
Some of the new trains on the Victoria line, which are being introduced this year, have been affected by ...
 
Extra Extra
Ooh - this is good. The government wants to help London's small shopkeepers. The A-Team premiered in London last night. ...
 

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A Right Royal Round-Up
Image by Matt From London, with permission It's quite obvious that we like looking around other people's ...
 
Elvis Presley Celebration Gig In Hyde Park
Photo / Joep R. Had he lived till the present era, Elvis Presley would've turned 75 in ...
 
Theatre Review: Educating Rita @ Trafalgar Studios
Tim Piggott-Smith and Laura Dos Santos play Frank and Rita The successful Willy Russell double bill ...
 
Video: King's Cross In The 1950s
britishrailways.tv As King's Cross station undergoes major transformations, preparing to open a new western concourse and sweeping away the green canopy building ...
 
Thames Barrier To Teddington: Photography Challenge
Last year we asked you to capture the essence of Slow London for the first Londonist photography competition. This year we ...
 
Last Minute Listing: Science Museum Lates
It's the final Wednesday of the month, which, according to the laws of planetary motion coupled with calendric custom, ...
 
Chefspective: Wai Lan, Head Chef at Drunken Monkey
Wai Lan is Head Chef at Drunken Monkey in Shoreditch. Although the restaurant is known for its ...
 
Book Grocer: 28 July-3 August
The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Poetry in Translation presents the work of centenarian Hans Keilson, François Cheng, ...
 
"Islamophobic" Bus Ban Story Refuted
Photo / che-burashka Last week two Muslim students accused a bus driver of refusing to let them ...
 
Find My Nearest: Blue Plaque
English Heritage's blue plaques are one of Londonist's very favourite things (along with themed pub crawls and dizzying quizzes) ...
 
Two Years To 2012 In Pictures
       ]]>You don't need us to tell you it's now less than 2 years to go until the 2012 Olympics opens in ...
 
£2 Birthday Specials at Benito's Hat - TODAY
Photography by Chris Osburn The original Benito's Hat location at Goodge Street (not the very newly opened ...
 

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Down the tubes

Thought for the day: life is a rail replacement bus service.
The Victoria Line: Bathtubs and Breakdowns
Those travelling on the Victoria Line over recent weeks will have noticed that the line has experienced more than its regular ...
 
Project Evergreen – Planning Consent secured for Northolt Junction
Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements to Richard Marks for this “Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness” view of Northolt Junction taken ...
 
Mayor's flagship cycling scheme - Barclays Cycle Hire - opens for business
London's newest public transport system goes live with 315 docking stations and 5,000 bikes available. More than 12,000 pioneer members sign ...
 
Bicycles in place for Mayor's flagship Barclays Cycle Hire scheme
More than 11,000 members now signed up, but members urged to activate their keys. ...
 
With over 9,000 people already signed up for Mayor's Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, pioneers are urged to activate their keys
Almost 10,000 membership keys have been sent out, and more than 2,000 have been activated. The Mayor's flagship cycle scheme goes ...
 
Street stencils support teens road safety campaign
Transport for London (TfL) is reaching out to the Capital's teens as part of its summer road safety campaign by placing ...
 
Cycle safety video launched for Mayor's flagship cycling scheme
'Code of conduct' sets out rules of the road ...
 
The Status of the Jubilee Line Upgrades
Yesterday saw a Special Board Meeting at TfL. The key item on the agenda was a report on the current status ...
 
An Electric City
A recurring topic at Mayor’s Question Time is the Quality of London’s Air. The threat of EU penalties hangs over the ...
 
The Bigger Picture. – Out of Town relief in sight for the NLL
The Secretary of State for Transport has approved Network Rail’s Nuneaton North chord application. Our thanks and copyright acknowledgements ...
 
St Mary's On the BBC
The BBC have a couple of short profiles of St Mary's station up on their website. The station featured in ...
 
In Pictures: Thames Cable Car
Following on from Mwmbwls' earlier piece, below is a better image of the currently anticipated route, and a very early concept ...
 
Brioche et circenses? The Thames Cable Car
The Mayor, an erudite and eclectic author, is no doubt familiar with the context of remarks made by both Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
 
New Standard Moquette Unveiled
TfL have revealed details of the new standardised Moquette for the Underground. The design, winner of an open competition ...
 
West Ashfield (Part 1): Models Great and Small
Deep in West Kensington lies Lillie Bridge Depot, first used to stable Metropolitan and District Trains in 1905 and then by ...
 
When PPP And The Economy Bite: Upgrades Delayed Across the Board
Mike Brown, London Underground's new MD gave his first full interview on Friday to the Financial Times. It was an interview ...
 
TfL Propose Cross-Thames Cable Car System
TfL have announced plans for a cross-Thames cable car system to run between the Greenwich Peninsular and the Royal Docks. ...
 
BAA and the Railed Requirements of Heathrow
Our friends at Travel Mole, specialist purveyors of information to the travel trade for a number of years, report on BAA's ...
 
Circle & Hammersmith 3 Week Partial Closure this Summer
The Circle and Hammersmith & City lines will be closed between Hammersmith and Edgware Road for three weeks from ...
 
TfL Complete Tube Lines Buyout
Bloomberg are reporting that TfL have now officially completed their buyout of Tube Lines for the sum of £310m. The ...
 
Trouble Up The (Dalston) Junction – The Difficulties of Safeguarding
Take one London Assembly member and add a television news channel looking for an example of frivolous government expenditure. Use FOI ...
 
The DfT in Parliament
On Thursday 17th June, the new Ministerial team at the DfT faced their first parliamentary question time. Falling in the midst ...
 
London To Get Pedestrian Blackout Timers
London is to get its first ‘Countdown’ timers, which will help people know how long they have to cross the road. ...
 
In Pictures: Crossrail at Whitechapel
Crossrail have released the first concept images of the revised design for Whitechapel Station. Objections from Tower Hamlets over the ...
 
Updated OSI List
We have uploaded an updated version of the valid Out of Station Interchange (OSI) list, current as of the end of ...
 
Moving on
You know when you're happily watching a TV show, and the credits roll, and out of nowhere the announcer says "That ...
 
Shepherd's Bush Overground: Finished!
Well almost. These men are putting the last bits of trim onto the aluminium panels that cover the rebuilt part of ...
 
The Thameslink Programme, illustrated
There are lots of elements to the Thameslink Programme, but at its core is a proposal to untangle the lines outside ...
 
Imperial Wharf construction begins!
If you believe this press release or this press release, they've finally started work on site at Imperial Wharf station, just ...
 
ELL works at Crystal Palace
Crystal Palace is one of the strangest stations on the network. It's built on the apex of a triangular junction with ...
 
East London Line phase 2 works to go ahead
According to this planning application, "funding has been secured" for enabling works for the phase 2 extension of the East ...
 
Mudchute DLR station progressing well
The main reason service the southern branch of the DLR is messed up is to rebuild Mudchute with three platforms. Reader ...
 
That London Overground interchange map
London Overground have quietly added walking interchanges to the London Overground network map found on trains: Oddly they don't tell ...
 
Shepherd's Bush/White City/Wood Lane interchanges
When the new stations at Shepherd's Bush and Wood Lane open there'll be two new out-of-station interchanges, requiring a short walk ...
 
Top secret London Overground news
Well, not very secret. But I've been sent a non-public London Overground presentation that contains a few interesting bits. Firstly, ...
 
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Arts

One pioneer's chronicle of London life in Camille Silvy show
“The thick detail of London life” is how Henry James described photographs taken by Camille Silvy during his seven year stay ...
 
Paula Rego's foundlings and fairytales
Paula Rego’s latest works stem from a recent exhibition alongside Tracey Emin and Mat Collishaw at the Foundling Museum ...
 
Sargent and the Sea is down at the shallow end
There is no depth to the latest John Singer Sargent show which relies heavily on notebook drawings and oil sketches, says ...
 
Different strokes from Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth’s bleak nature paintings bring to London the romantic myth of the solitary American — but the accompanying works of ...
 
Olga Chernysheva takes us from past to present
Olga Chernysheva’s most sophisticated and dazzling work to date is on show at the Calvert 22 Gallery. ...
 
Marks of inspiration at Kupferstichkabinett
Wite Cube has taken an ambitious step with Kupferstichkabinett, gathering 170 drawings from some of the most prominent names in contemporary ...
 
Time for a shake-up of the Portrait Gallery's annual award
The National Portrait Gallery’s annual award has long since lost its vigour — but its sponsor’s troubles present the opportunity for ...
 
Looking at children, beauty and death with Sally Mann
Sally Mann is a serious, thoughtful and sophisticated American photographer whose work has raised controversy since her 1984 portraits . ...
 
Ernesto Neto makes a splash on Southbank
The Hayward Gallery has a knack of presenting exuberant summer exhibitions. This year Ernesto Neto and The New Decor are on ...
 
Do my eyes deceive me at the National Gallery?
The scientific techniques used to tell a genuine painting from a dud are the focus of a new show that only ...
 
Johnnie Shand Kydd goes to the heart of Italy
Infamous today for its mafia-like Camorra clan, Naples also preserves a mythical status as the Greek city dedicated to the Siren ...
 
Alice Neel was the art world's best kept secret
She rose to fame in her native America after painting Andy Warhol but remained unknown in the UK. Yet artists all ...
 
A world in motion from Francis Alÿs
Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs is a restless spirit. His works vary from films capturing his eccentric journeys around his adopted home ...
 
Puzzle of frowns and smiles with Wolfgang Tillmans
Tillmans is an innovator who explores and savours the world around him, experiments with production processes — he still prints his ...
 
A stick of rock, cock? Tate Britain gets smutty
Tate Britain’s new show is sunk by smutty seaside humour, crude caricatures and pretentious contemporary art, says Brian Sewell ...
 
Ray Harryhausen is master of film monsters
On Ray Harryhausen's birthday next Tuesday, June 29, the London Film Museum’s splendid exhibition of his creations opens to the public. ...
 
Nothing is Forever shows the promise of things to come
Nothing Is Forever is a solid if unspectacular start to SLG’s new era but there is plenty to suggest that its ...
 
The secret career of Ken Russell
Before he moved into film, the controversial British director was a compassionate photographer. As an exhibition of his scenes of post-war ...
 
Macca shares Linda's snaps of the Sixties
Sir Paul McCartney has chosen a selection of rare images taken by his late wife Linda for an exhibition at the ...
 
Picasso's happy period makes for a great show
The carefree paintings, sculptures and drawings from the Picasso's years on the French Riviera make for the most exciting and enjoyable ...
 
A tree house to treasure in 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces
The premise of 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces is a reasonable one: what’s the point of an architecture exhibition if you ...
 
Surreal House is a dream of a home
Given the popularity of Surrealism, it is increasingly difficult for our galleries to convey that sense of shock ...
 
Oh, no! It's the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition
A relic of the society calendar, the Royal Academy’s annual show of the work of Sunday painters and professional chancers has ...
 
Antony Gormley 's Test Sites is an exhibition in two parts
Retinal imprints from the lights blur the space frames as you walk among them once more in Antony Gormley's Test Sites. ...
 
Private moments captured with a melancholic filter from Hannah Starkey
Hannah Starkey fills her frames with stories mostly built around female characters located in anonymous, urban situations. ...