Yup, it’s Londonist’s favourite weekend of the year – the clocks go back tonight, and we get an extra hour in bed. Yippee (does a high five with teddy bear). Bed’s good. We like bed. Trouble is, there’s so much to see and do in London, calling and beckoning us to action. So here’s a couple of suggestions for that extra hour…. Wanna spend it dancin’? Rewind the years with the clocks and try out......

We are happy to announce this very special installment of London On the Cheap, where your London week ain’t merely cheap…but utterly free! Whee! Yes, it’s early in the month, and your pockets are a-burnin’, but save some of that stash for next week, when we present London On the Not So Cheap. Joking. (Maybe.) Monday: Gay Pub Bingo Night! More promising words were never written. Join host Timberlina, unquestionably the best drag name......

Rain, rain, go away…flirtatious spring-like temperatures and halcyon moments of direct sunlight belie this week’s forecast for April showers. At least that leaves plenty of time to soak up indoor activities on the cheap before we jet our wellies and get on with the picnic season. Monday: One of our favourite tucked-away speakeasy-esque bars is holding a book club tonight with the theme Dark Heroes. This ain’t no run-of-the-mill Richard & Judy-style book club:......

Happy February, FOBGs. Another healthy serving of book groceries awaits you this week. Stick to a well-rounded book diet, and you’re sure to stave off a winter cold. We have no actual data to support this contention – we’re book geeks, not science nerds – but it certainly sounds promising. So eat your greens, drink your grains, and check back later this week for a bonus edition of the Book Grocer especially dedicated to......

Some cops are robbers Some caesareans are 'natural' Some disruption due: airport strikes are on for 7 and 14 January Anti-slavery monuments get listed status for Christmas Pedicabs get licences and Greenwich gets its own Eye Image taken in Borough Market courtesy of Tim Bradshaw via the Londonist flickr group.......

For anyone who wants to imagine they are abroad in sunnier climates while London turns damply autumnal, the flavours of Spain are coming to London for a week in Taste Spain. Being quite a sophisticated city in terms of culinary acuity, Londoners know there is more to the cuisine than paella and sangria, so the programme of events and things on offer are of very high quality. We're impressed. And hungry. What's happening? Well.........

We like helping you pick what's for lunch. We like sharing with you what we know is going on in the world of drinking, dining, cooking and food shopping in London. But, though we try, we cannot know it all and we trust you to know your onions, know what you like and know where to get it. That element of trust has been developed, nurtured and turned into something quite special by our friends......

"En 10 años de servicio nunca he visto una tontería igual." - In ten years of service, never have I seen such foolishness. So said the local policeman last Sunday at Madrid's Londonize event. Of course, every London market has Beefeaters in full costume guarding the gates and every stallholder is happy to haggle in exaggerated cockney accents with each customer. This applies only to every London market in Madrid. At Londonize, Madrileños were......

The Dean of Southwark, The Very Revd Colin Slee, seems to have gotten a taste for being in hot water. In December he stoutly defended his allegedly drunk bishop who somehow staggered across London from an Irish Embassy Christmas bash to clamber into someone's car, chuck out baby toys and refuse to come out until forcibly removed. In February he used Youtube to call for the legalisation of drugs as a means of stopping......

With weather like this, there's nothing like a little bit of a walk, followed by a little bit of food, followed by a little bit of a walk, followed by some more food, followed by--well, you get the point. So the amazing sunshine has Londonist wondering--where to walk and where to eat? Middle Eastern Food in Shepherd's Bush: A blue badge guide takes you on a two and a half hour tour of Uxbridge Road,......

We at Londonist try to cook with seasonal vegetables where possible and a trip to Borough Market early on Saturday (always go early before the gastro-porn tourists arrive, or on a Thursday when many of the stalls are now open) saw us staggering home with armloads of rhubarb. This long, pink creature is one of complexities. It is actually a vegetable yet we choose to use it as a fruit and it’s silky texture......

This Thursday, the Oxfam book shop on Marylebone High Street will be holding another of its super foodie nights. This is the charity's flagship London bookshop and is a treat for philanthropic bibliophiles: new and anitquarian books, CDs, vinyl, videos and DVDs can be found here and in-store events are programmed throughout the year. Tomorrow night, the writer-chefs Mark Hix (the man behind The Ivy, Le Caprice and writer of various books including fish......

If the London movie map created by FilmLondon and VisitLondon is to be believed, there are few places in this city that haven't been filmed. So next time you have a 'this could be in a film' moment when you're out, that's probably because it was. London's most often depicted as a jolly place full of Routemaster buses, rather than afloat with porridgey puddles of pavement sick and confused tourists. And yes, there's a......

Ken better watch out. The pigeon protesters are coming to get him! A restaurant in Mayfair has been giving away free food all week after their trading licence was delayed. Free food is so our favourite type of free. UKTV have announced a new show partly broadcast from Borough Market. Go and pull faces behind Clarissa won't you. And finally, looking for a way to spend New Year Eve? This sounds pretty ace -......

The BBC are paying some attention to one of our own bugbears - the fact that Borough High Street just doesn't work: It is the gateway to the City of London, shrouded in history and referred to in respected literature. So why then, when you walk along Borough High Street are you more likely to spend your time dodging bins, street signs, other pedestrians and cars? The Southwark branch of the charity Living Streets......

This little virtual recreation of Borough High Street is in the immortal words of Kevin Coster, neat. We had fun just wandering around getting in the way of the traffic, but by designing your own street you can: choose the nature and extent of traffic calming and traffic management position trees, cycle racks, benches and tables onto the street explore your designs in 3D save your designs to the walk2go archive comment on the......

So we enter Endgame. Architecture week and the London Architecture Biennale (LAB) draw to a close this weekend. And we still haven't figured out how to pronounce 'biennale'. Here’s our pick of the final flourish. Friday Walks: A bevy of novel guided walks are available on Friday. The Borough Market Experience (£5, 9am) tours the Victorian marketplace, highlighting both its ancient roots and its modern refurbs. Shakespeare, Social Space and Design (£7, 10.30, George......

See listings here for today and here for ongoing events. Wednesday Architectural History of the Albert Hall: Pretty self-explanatory. Take a guided tour round the old, red beehive for £7.50. Tours from 11am, requires booking. Pub and Church Crawl: From holy spirits to those of the distilled kind, this tour of Clerkenwell’s historic boozers and churches is led by former RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson. £7, booking required. Building the Gherkin: Documentary on the construction......

Following on from yesterday’s post, which listed ongoing events, here are the ones to catch this weekend only. Friday Renzo Piano ‘Sermon’: The man behind the Shard will deliver a ‘sermon’ from Southwark Cathedral. £15, booking required. Saturday Sheep Drive: You won’t want to miss this one. ‘60 Herdwick sheep will be driven from Borough Market over the Millennium Bridge to Smithfield Market.’ Lambs to the slaughter? St Bartholomew Fair: After counting sheep, stick......

It's all very well planning for St George's Day frolics, but how many of us will see Sunday morning with our throats intact? We advise all readers to get themselves down to Borough Market as quickly as possible and stock up on garlic. While you're there you may as well nip into Southwark Cathedral and steal as much holy water as you can carry. According to Wikipedia WE'RE ALL DOOMED: Vampires, along with witches,......

To us Borough Market has always been about food. Ostrich burgers, speciality cheeses, all types of crazy breads, and those amazing chorizo sandwiches from that one stall (mmm, we're making ourselves hungry just typing this). But now the market is home to the latest addition to the Paul Smith mini-empire. Smith's newest little shop is located at 13 Park Street on the fringes of the market area. It will sell all the usual Paul......

I'd like to put together a cheese plate for my upcoming Christmas party. Do you know anything about cheese, and where can I get some good cheese? Lucky for you there are great stinky cheese shops all over town that offer the world's finest wheels. And in every cheese shop there is a staff with an alarming amount of cheese knowledge. While generally friendly, these gourmand-types can also be intimidating, so it’s helpful to......

Foodies' favourite, Borough Market (warning: there's some sound clips on the official site when you first enter it, so turn the volume down if you're at work), launches a fund-raising appeal today, to help build a Food School of Excellence. The Borough Market Trust are looking long-term to ensure the market has discerning customers in the future by offering opportunities to schools to learn about food in greater depth, and it's looking for £250,000......

Did you see the Top 20 Film Locations list that was put together by Film London last week? It was pretty rubbish. We know these kind of things are designed to provoke dicussion and argument, but one company counting up which of the locations on their books have been used the most over the past year really isn't that great a read. Potters Field Park (as used in Little Britain)? Bethnal Green Town Hall......

Sitting in a pub, swapping stories with a bunch of strangers while sipping a pint is generally agreed to be a pleasant way to spend an evening. Even better if it’s a pub like the George Inn, London’s only surviving galleried coaching inn nestled behind Borough High Street in its own little cobbled courtyard. Park yourself on one of the benches outside with a tankard of foaming ale and you could well believe that......

Just a quick reminder to visit the London Photobloggers site if you haven't been there in a while. Recent updates have included some fantastic images from the Chinese New Year celebrations (image above by Onionbagblogger) and some great shots of Borough Market. Also - you may have noticed that we've recently added a sidebar on the left of the page which links directly to the latest shots from the brilliant Way We See It......

So it looks like "London" is a four-letter word in a certain rival European capital. The mayor of Paris has begun a campaign against "La Londonisation", his term for the rubber-stamp commoditising of the High Street, destruction of small businesses, and the driving out of the middle classes into the hinterlands (suburbs to you and me). Leaving aside the somewhat convenient timing of this tirade (Paris is frontrunner for the 2012 Olympics, and London's......