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Entries from Londonist tagged with 'bowstreet'

February 23, 2008

It's a lovely Saturday afternoon, but if you're sitting in front of your computer, wondering what to do with your day, never fear! Londonist is here, and we've found a most entertaining online game for you. Channel 4 has created Bow Street Runner, a game to accompany the City of Vice series, and it's almost as fun as the programme. As with any online game, your experience is going to be limited by the......

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December 1, 2007

29. Phantom Assailants: Part One One hundred years previous to Jack The Ripper’s reign of ghastly terror, London was overshadowed by another spectral attacker – a phantom aggressor that, although seemingly dreadful and unique, would simply become one of many urban legends pertaining to mysterious and elusive assailants across the world, with many actually analysing the peculiar cases of ripping, and asking ‘did such psychopaths exist or were they the product of local hysteria’?......

Continue Reading "The Saturday Strangeness"

October 30, 2007

If you've been past the Bow Street entrance to the Royal Opera House lately you'll have seen Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson smouldering gingerly in a full face poster shot, stating: Meet Ed. Fact: When he's dancing, pound for pound, he's stronger than a rhino. Superheroes really do wear tights. You see what the Opera House is doing? It's sexing up. In your face! To underpin its efforts at drawing in new audiences......

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January 9, 2007

It might not be a vintage season in the league, where many of the capital's football clubs are looking nervously over their shoulders at relegation, but London seems determined to have at least one finalist in the first FA Cup showpiece at the new Wembley as yesterday's draw offered the possibility that as many as 44% of the fourth round matches (seven out of sixteen) could be played on our collective doorstep on the......

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July 11, 2006

The decision on whether police are to be charged over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes is due to be announced on July 17, the Crown Prosecution Service have announced. Bow Street court closes its doors this Friday. Ah, the memories. The UK's first ever gay prom will hit London next week. Woody Allen interview about his new film Scoop (his second to be filmed in London). Includes the question: Do you now......

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June 9, 2006

Does a sticker count as graffiti? Dunno, but it’s a Banksy, so we’ll make an exception. (Yes, we read all your comments berating us for giving Banksy further exposure – so we’re being deliberately contrary. Ya, boo, sucks to you!) This one’s down Bow Street, traditional home of the police force, but we’re sure there must be others around. Anyone spotted any?......

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December 1, 2005

A former communications officer and a former parliamentary researcher appeared at Bow Street magistrates' court yesterday to face charges under the Official Secrets Act over the leaking of the 'bomb al-Jazeera' document. The men who are most likely to pay for sex are apparently those aged between 25 and 35 who are unmarried or divorced and live in London. The official 'election artist' David Godbold is claiming MPs tried to censor his work. The Met......

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May 19, 2005

The Guardian News Blog today has some more details on the new editions of Monopoly which we reported on back in January. Apparently the new 70th Edition version of the game will do away with the water works, Oxford Street, Bow Street and Angel and replace them with the London Eye, Covent Garden, Notting Hill, Hammersmith Apollo and Soho. Canary Wharf and the City will replace Park Lane and Mayfair as the most expensive......

Continue Reading "Even Fictional Property Is Now More Expensive"

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