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• Posted Week Around The -Ists to Londonist
  Photo by Stuart Axe. Londonist is one of thirteen in the worldwide Gothamist network. Once a week, the editors of each site - from SFist to Shanghaiist - compile some of their most interesting posts into a neat digest. Check out what's been going on elsewhere in the ist-a-verse: Londonist found photos of the day the space shuttle came to London, and took a special trip on the city's new Tube line, getting a...
• Posted Video: Inside East London Line Carriages And Driver's Cab to Londonist
  Following on from our recent photo tour of the East London Line, here are a couple of short videos taken onboard the Class 378 trains (or bendy-trains as we may soon be calling them). This clip shows the train pulling out of New Cross Gate heading northwards. The camera pans round to capture the inside of the mostly empty train. With no doors or partitions between carriages, the snaking configuration feels a little dizzying. The...
• Posted Leave No Bear Behind Part 12: The Pitiful Thing About Tiggers to Londonist
  Oh the pitiful thing about tiggers Is tiggers are unwanted things Their tops are strung up from crossbeams Their bottoms just dangle from strings They're dirty, hurty, dead by thirty Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong But the most pitiful thing about tiggers is He's not the only one Indeed, there are plenty more sorry-looking, homeless and abused soft toys out there, as our increasingly tedious series attests. London can be a cruel, hard city,...
• Commented on Hand-Drawn Maps of London: A Mystery Location
  Dutch Shortcake wins the novel. Please send your address to tips@londonist.com and we'll get Lee to send you some fine reading material....
• Posted Hand-Drawn Maps of London: A Mystery Location to Londonist
  Lee Jackson, novelist and curator of the indispensable Victorian London website sends us this work of expert draughtsmanship. But he's intentionally left the identity of the location a mystery. Think you recognise the street pattern? Got a hunch which part of town serves as a nexus for mummies, toddlers, animals and footballers? The first person to correctly identify the neighbourhood in the comments below wins a copy of one of Lee's London-set novels. Click...