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As bands jump across the Atlantic to play this weekend's V Festival and next weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals London is treated to a wealth of bands that rarely play these shores. Here's a selection of the best.

the video! Finally, they were amused to see the first-lady kissing her own hand when meeting the Pope in São Paulo. See the picture.

Lots of big events and comebacks on sale tomorrow, so we'll jump straight in: First up as some of you may be aware Prince has announced 21 shows throughout the summer in London, including 8 nights at the O2 arena, playing on Wednesday 1st, Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th, Tuesday 7th, Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Tuesday 14th August. Expect these to sell out quickly when they go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am, at...

What heart-warming joy, then, to hear about Londoners who care.

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. Austinist has a chat with the ever-fashionable Golden Girl Rue McClanahan, and managed to catch some local fashionistas making...

Chelsea and Arsenal have both won it in the past, but this year's London Senior Cup, premier competition of the London Football Association, will be fought over by Bromley FC and Tooting & Mitcham United who, as it happens, are also staging the final at their Imperial Fields ground (pictured above). The cup, which these days is "open to all non-F.A. Premier League and non-Football League Senior Clubs affiliated to the Association or approved by the Cup Committee," was first competed for in 1882, ten years after the FA Cup began.

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists.

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week.

If you are after a new spring wardrobe and have a bit of cash to spend on some new outfits now the season is about to change, you've got today to bid for your favourite velvet cape and long stripy woollen scarf combination at Bonhams auction house in Knightsbridge. Bonhams is the oldest and largest auctioneer of fine art and antiques in Britain - terribly highbrow but for today, one of their salerooms will become a big dressing up box.

The oddest story we've stumbled across in a while:

Cherie Blair posed semi-nude for artist Euan Uglow back when ", does reveal a little more than we thought we'd ever see of Downing Street's First Lady.

Shoreditch may not have a tube station any more but it still has tube trains. Well... two tube carriages, to be accurate. As with anything in Shoreditch that stands still for more than two minutes, the two tube carriages we mentioned have been taken over by artistic / media types and now sit above Great Eastern Street like gritty urban guardian angels, keeping a watchful, graffiti-covered eye over the designer / media types going about their Nathan Barley-esque lives below.

It's competition crazy at Londonist at the moment. Firstly, congratulations to Rachel Horwood who won our pair of tickets to see Seth Lakeman tomorrow at The Scala. And don't forget you can still enter to win a copy ofThe Meaning of Life by Michael Cox. Plus later on today we'll have an awesome competition for all you clubheads out there.

What could be better than going to a lovely park on a hot summer's day to listen to some nice relaxing music? Well, nothing, apart from the 'relaxing' part – this Londonista likes it LOUD. The louder, the better. So Saturday's gig in Hyde Park was right up our street – two of our favourite bands, and at least three musical legends for good measure. Add some beer and it's the recipe for a perfect day – or would have been, had the organisers not taken away entirely the wrong idea from Live8, on which more later.

"...given the turbulent times we live in, the need for a deeper sense of connection and meaningful growth and change in society has never been greater."

Haven't Snow Patrol done well for themselves? By exchanging the one last chance nothing spared push of The Final Straw for a more of the same efficiency on whatever the new one's called, they've only gone and upgraded themselves to arena band status. If you can get anywhere near the front of Wembley Aircraft Hanger on December 18th, you'll see that Gary Lightbody still looks close to tears each time the audience sings back at him. Reason enough to give them a chance if they ever decide to play somewhere sensible again.

American Liberals, however, are increasingly using the media to get across their simple and sensible message: Gun crime will not decrease unless gun laws are tightened. American Gun seems to be no exception. It highlights the gun culture that is rife in the USA. The trailer looks good, but the film looks a little too glossy, if anything.

Londonist spotted this poster outside the Stockwell Baptist Church on South Lambeth Road the other day and felt compelled to take a quick snap.

TV Troll is in a bit of a domestic mood this week; it must be the horrible cold weather. So, to celebrate this, here are a couple of programmes guaranteed to make those of a foodie bent quiver with joy. First up is Gordon Ramsay, whose Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Tue 9pm C4) started up last week, but apparently really hits its stride this week. As a What Not To Do In The Kitchen, it works very, very well; Gordon, any chance you’ll come and cook for us? Then there’s Jimmy’s Farm (Tue 9pm BBC2), where a posh bloke who is not Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall makes sausages out of his porcine friends, which seems a bit mean. Mmm, all of the lovely nosh in these shows has inspired us to order in a really good takeaway. But beware, reader: whatever you do, do NOT watch Anthea Turner: Perfect Housewife (Sun 7pm BBC3) as it may induce vomiting, a violent allergic reaction, and a desire to slow-roast Anthea “I sold my wedding to Cadbury’s and all I got was utterly excoriated by everyone in the UK” Turner-Bovey to death in a pot filled with cold tramp sick. Apparently, the blonde Fembot goes around to some poor normal women’s houses and guilt-trips the hell out of them until they are infected with her pathological neuroses, retrograde gender stereotypes and fixed grin of death. Anthea Turner is the perfect housewife if you are Ed Gein and need someone around the house who is just as soulless and fundamentally misogynist as you are. Normal people should run a mile.

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Hello? Publishing World? Did you go on a collective vacation this week? Did all of your printers go on strike at the same time? Did your own books put you all to sleep? Did television finally really spell the death of reading? Are you still hung over from the Londonist birthday party? And if...

So we did, and here are the results.

Earlier this week the BBC printed this piece of writing by Geoff Ryman.

Norwich, Southampton, Crystal Palace, West Brom. One of these teams will be partying well into the night on Sunday, leaving the others to look forward to playing Hull, Plymouth, and Burnley next season. To avoid the drop, Palace will almost certainly have to beat their South East London rivals Charlton. Charlton who haven't scored in four, not won in eight, and lost the last four games; against Palace who have visited the Addicks 14...

A disappointing night at the Brits for London acts, unless you count the Brummie with the faux-Cockney accent Mike Skinner aka The Streets, who won the Best British Male Solo Artist award. The Londonist office is divided on The Streets so we won't say any more lest a fist-fight break out. In the international categories, the entertaining Scissor Sisters cleaned up in the Best Group, Best Album and Best Newcomer categories. The Brits site contains a full list of winners and nominees, for those who are interested.