LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

The well-known darlings of the Young British Artist (YBA) scene are lined up to sell their wares from the back of a car this Sunday. For the 2007 Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, previous stall holders and YBAs Gavin Turk, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tracey Emin, Fiona Banner, Cedric Christie and Abigail Lane are back again to sell affordable and collectable artworks in this peculiarly English impromptu market style, on the grounds of the......

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they......

The 28th of May marks the start of National BBQ Week, and the National BBQ Association is hosting events up and down the country in their bid to get you to barbecue better and more often. Are you a wonder on the Weber? Then enter the barbecue beauty contest, Britain's Best BBQ'er. (The top prize is a trip to America's biggest BBQ event, Memphis in May.) Or battle it out with your partner in......

Buttoned Down Disco is a phenomenon that's been going for a couple of years now, you join a mailing list, they tell you where and when the next party is and people turn up and rejoice to a funky mix of indie, cheese, pop, and everything in between. Buttoned Down Liveshow is a monthly event, sort of like the Disco's younger sister. 4 bands and an all night barbecue for £5. It's great! We......

It’s no secret that Londonist loves Eurovision, but we also love up-and-coming indie starlets – and we particularly like to support ones that come from just up the road in Camden, like The Crimea. So, is it any wonder that we're torn between two options for Saturday 12th May? It’s either going to be dress up like Agnetha and get merrily drunk watching Baltic states give each other twelve points, or we could pop......

It's time for another Londonist Culture Crawl though in the current hot weather, the temptation to slump into a sticky puddle of distinctly uncultured gloop is rather overwhelming. Nonetheless, for those armed with enough Friday 7 July Being the first Friday of the month, go along to Tate Britain for the July Friday Late. This Friday is the return of the South West Fest Party - an annual celebration of the SW1 community. Music......

You know when you have to go to a conference or exhibition with work and it's so boring that you can't even remember what you saw during the day? If you're lucky, the conference is an overnighter with a party or two thrown in as compensation for wasting precious hours of your life listening to some management drone read something off a load of PowerPoint slides in between showing you some indecipherable graphs and......

Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word 'shambles' was entirely appropriate. If you'd rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes play The Eye in Stoke Newington High Street from 9pm. They're be joined by Vincent Vincent and the Villains. Tuesday 7th The highly-recommended (by us) Thread (right) play POP (off......