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Ken Livingstone has officially launched a program to help London become the greenest place to film in the world. Not *that* kind of green - we're not going to see Regents Park stand in for the Amazon Basin anytime soon. We're talking the other green. The one we got all excited about yesterday. Y'know, the environmental one. 'Green Screen London' is a series of initiatives aiming to make our film and television industry the......

Londonist attended the London Film Festival press launch this morning - we're suckers for a free breakfast. This year is the festivals 50th birthday and by all accounts all the stops have been pulled out to make this years line up a little bit special. Of particular interest to us was the news that Trafalgar Square will play host to A Portrait of London - director Mike Figgis is overseeing a specially commissioned event......

The subject of our most recent ENO review, Anthony Minghella's Madame Butterfly is officially a smash hit -- it is completely sold out (although, as ever, standing room and day tickets go on sale at 10 am, and there are always released tickets to be had if you're lucky). In addition, rumour has it that the production is heading for New York, presumably with better singers. All this despite the best efforts of certain......

After a tearful Popstarz on Friday, Londonist had a very operatic weekend, with the premiere of Anthony Minghella's new staging of Madame Butterfly at the English National Opera on Saturday, and Opera Rara's one-off unstaged performance of Donizetti's Il diluvio universale on Saturday. This is not the place for a detailed review of the Opera Rara event, since it's too late to tell you to go to it, and if even if we could.........

If you received your English National Opera brochure for the upcoming autumn season in the mail last week, like we did, your first though was probably the same as ours: "Who are these creepy, inappropriately sexualised adolescents, and what are their pictures doing all over my opera brochure?" Honestly... the brochure looks like it should be titled Barely Legal. As you can see to the left, the jailbait youth whose picture accompanies the description......