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By Andy Wilkes via the Londonist Flickrpool On Monday it was beer gardens and yesterday, roof terraces. Today we bring you a top ten list of waterside pubs where you can chill out drinking by the water this summer. Captain Kidd (Wapping) Prospect of Whitby (Wapping) Cutty Sark Tavern... continue reading on Londonist

By oskay under a Creative Commons licence We last met Emmanuel Ray at the Eccentrics' Club Friday Thirteenth Dinner. When he's not being eccentric, Emmanuel is fabulous and he's started up another kind of club based on 'socialite evenings'. We've no idea what a socialite is these days but... continue reading on Londonist

By Scott Matthewman Dancing couples will take to 7 bridges and 7 railway stations this evening between 6-7pm to silently dance the tango with their partners to mark the 4th anniversary of the 7/7 terrorist attacks on London. Find a location here and whether rain, hail or a blissful... continue reading on Londonist

By Andy Wilkes via the Londonist Flickrpool Yesterday we brought you a top ten list of beer gardens from the Fancyapint crew. Today, it's roof terraces: 26 Smithfield (Smithfield) Bar Aquarium (Old Street) Carpenters Arms (Fitzrovia) Grafton Arms (Regent's Park) Frog & Forget-Me-Not (Clapham Common) Castle (Angel) Duchess (Vauxhall)... continue reading on Londonist

This Saturday, at the farthest reach of south east London, Thamesmead Festival will be vying with Lewisham People's Day for local festival fever. Thamesmead has all the usual music, dancing, kids activities, stalls and a community parade but also boasts X-Factor contestant Laura White, small mammals available for handling,... continue reading on Londonist

You could be here Yesterday we offered you opera al fresco, today it's laughs in the park. The nice organisers at Ealing Council are offering you 2 lots of comedy prizes to tempt you to their manor. The Ealing Comedy Festival opens with a gala show on Friday 17... continue reading on Londonist

By Andy Wilkes via the Londonist Flickrpool On the day it decides to rain, here come are the pub recommendations you've been waiting for. Our friends at Fancyapint got together last week to pool their considerable pub brain resources and compile a list of top al fresco drinking spots... continue reading on Londonist

A week after London's minimalist Stonewall celebrations, London's Pride Parade took over town yesterday afternoon. There are grumbles that it's been depoliticised and some were unhappy at the growing commercialisation of the colourful event (Selfridges and Calvin Klein taking advantage). But Gordon and Sarah Brown hosted a morning reception at... continue reading on Londonist

A sneak preview of LIFT's Shoreditch Festival Parade plans Last week we highlighted some of the brilliant local festivals going on around the boroughs this summer and we got some great tip offs in response, telling us about even more great happenings that hadn't yet hit our radar. And... continue reading on Londonist

Ealing Opera in the Park Yesterday, Ealing's vast programme of summer festivities rolled into action at Greenford Carnival. The fun runs on until the Mela on 16 August and there's a dazzling array of entertainments to choose from and we've got a pair of tickets to giveaway. Opera in... continue reading on Londonist

By AndyRamdin | Ducked.nl under the Creative Commons Attribution licence As the "Stand and Deliver" report recommendations for a strategy on cycle parking is considered by the London Assembly a chic glass warehouse bike parking facility is proposed for Paddington Station. CyclePoint would combine secure storage space for 1000... continue reading on Londonist

Taking a staycation? No holiday at all? Locked in London for the rest of the sweltering summer? Hooray! You can come to the Camden Fringe. Bigger, better and more pigeony than ever before, the sparky young pretender to the deranged and sprawling Ed Fest throne bursts out all over... continue reading on Londonist

By Baroness▫� �� via the Londonist Flickrpool Camden High Street may have been invaded by corporate retailers and live under constant threat of redevelopment that will wipe out its lively, grungy, markety, grubby, north London charm but we thought we could always rely on it to be covered in... continue reading on Londonist

If you enjoyed the Transport Museum's Art of the Poster exhibition and are a dab hand at design yourself then you've got just over 3 weeks left to enter the Poster Design Competition which is being run by the Museum, TFL and the London Design Festival. The brief is... continue reading on Londonist

Hanging out by the Serpentine costs nothing at all. Pedalos £5 for 30 mins. Image by Big Rock Cat. In the summertime, when the weather is hot There are things you can do that won't cost a lot Friday: Experience 'Electronic Opera' at Tate Modern Live as a tryptich... continue reading on Londonist

The London Literature Festival may have kicked off today but we've got a lit sleb event of a very accessible nature that won't cost you a penny. Him of unmistakeable Trainspotting fame, Irvine Welsh, will be at Foyles on Tuesday 6th July at 6.30pm to talk about Reheated Cabbage,... continue reading on Londonist

By Big Rock Cat via the Londonist Flickrpool People are now patrolling pollution There's a new lot of allotments for Kensington & Chelsea We have the noisiest neighbours in the UK (or the thinnest walls?) And due a tickle and a treat; Dogwatch is on duty in Woodford Green... continue reading on Londonist

By Simon Crubellier Surbiton. Famous for a rather dashing art deco train station and being a byword for suburbia. But we've been tipped off about a good thing happening there, in late summer, involving dressing up, lush consumption, a big old party and raising money for a very worthwhile... continue reading on Londonist

Tomorrow, the brilliant Laughter in Odd Places crew put on their last ever show fitting TWELVE comedians into TWO hours in plenty of unusual spots around the Museum of London. Scarily accurate timings and line up can be found at their website and yes, that's Richard Herring and Simon... continue reading on Londonist

And so begin the Olympic public art participatory opportunities! Station House Opera are creating a massively long domino rally across the five Olympic boroughs on Sunday 26th July and they need your help. If you can be available for 4 hours that afternoon then, apart from the kudos of... continue reading on Londonist