This past weekend’s third annual London Luau, held at venues across London, commenced Friday evening with the opening of the Tiki Art Show at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane. The exhibition featured tropical kitsch themed artwork by several artists from around the world, including well known American lowbrow sensation Shag and more local artists such as Oxfordshire’s Tiki Racer and London-based architect Michael Murphy. During the afternoons of Saturday and Sunday, the......

Aloooha London! This weekend will see the third annual London Luau, three days of 'bands, DJs, drinking, eating and dancing' with a 'tropical Tiki theme.' This year's Luau commences on Friday with an art show opening at Brick Lane's Old Truman Brewery followed by drinks at Mayfair's celeb hot spot, Mahiki. The party continues on Saturday with a market place, live carving, dance lessons, films and more with the main night meet-up at Trader......

German. Art. Controversial. Diana. London. Do you know how long we've been waiting for an article to come along that contains all of those words? And, finally, today our prayers have been answered: An art show based on a controversial German stage work about the death of Britain's Princess Diana has found a home in London. Christoph Schlingensief's "The Last Hour" was originally scheduled to be part of the Frieze Art Fair, which runs......

We love Bank Holiday Mondays. They make the week go so quickly, we forget to arrange to do anything on the Friday. If you're as useless at reading a calendar as us, here's a couple of suggestions: Londonist favourite Fiona Bevan (whose debut EP we cited as one of our favourite records of 2005) plays tonight at one of our favourite venues: Bush Hall. She's on as part of the Buzz Night and she's on......

Earlier this week kissy couples were wading through roses and red tissue paper deeper than an east coast snow dump and singles shook a tiny, lonely fist (no ring!) at it all. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Valentine's season is in the can, finally. Austinist is already pulsing with SX energy and posting on the People's Choice Award nominees and the short films that will be playing while......

Think And Wonder, Wonder And Think... sounds like one of those schools' television programmes you used to get in the Eighties doesn't it? You can almost imagine an overly-enthusiastic man and woman wearing brightly-patterned jumpers, erecting a wobbly structure made of pipe cleaners which is supposed to represent the human digestive tract or something. In fact Think and Wonder, Wonder and Think is the new exhibition at the Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green,......