Barely a week after a vicious gang attacked police officers in Croydon, we bring you another sobering tale of needless violence from the blighted borough: an unruly mob has caused £10,000 worth of damage to a 150-year old church in Shirley. Before you get scribbling to the the papers with hand-wringing woes about the yoof of today, with their iPods and idiotic idioms and bulletproof hoodies, bear this in mind: the miscreants in this......

Although it's almost ten years old Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue still stands up as a classic piece of adult anime (and by adult we mean it's a sophisticated piece of cinema in case you were thinking 'tentacle rape') and it's great that the Barbican are renewing some interest in it as part of their japanimation season which kicks off Tuesday: Mimi’s decision to leave pop group “CHAM!” to become an actress is taken badly......

Dali poking at eyes on "Spellbound"The Tate Modern will be presenting an exhibit called Dalí & Film, June 1 until September 9. I know it's a few months early to announce, but it is Surrealism, so there you have it. That Tate Modern, there's no telling what they're going to do over there. Salvador Dalí loved movies and collaborated on several films, most famously Alfred Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945). Dalí designed the film's - of course......

Dudley Moore and Peter Cook will be resurrected to return to the West End where their comedy careers started. Not, we hasten to add, in resurrected corpse / zombie form (though who wouldn't want to see a zombie Dudley Moore choking on brains as an undead Peter Cook tries to make him laugh). Come Again was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer and will open in London at The Venue in......

The ICA, (which, as you may have noticed, Londonist loves) Begins a new series of lectures and special events this Thursday on the topic of "The Future of Men." The publicity begins: From the deterioration of the Y chromosome to declining sperm counts, from the allegedly poor performance of boys within the education system to the allegedly poor performance of men as fathers, masculinity appears to be embattled and suffering from an unprecedented lack......

Why is there so much evil in the world? It's at times like this that Londonist wishes one of its posting categories was "Examples of unforgivable stupidity". The idea was pointless enough in the first place: to immortalise UK and Commonwealth stars in a "Hollywood-style walk of fame". Why, exactly, does London need this? Will it sway more visitors to come to the capital? Of course not. Will it boost local business? Unlikely. Is......

Alfred Hitchcock said it would happen, and now it has: the birds are turning on us! According to this report a man was attacked by two crows today as he jogged along the tow path in Battersea. Justin Kay was out getting a bit of exercise when apparently, "the birds swooped and pecked at him": Mr Kay said he was able to fight off the first attack, but one eventually landed on his head......