Of course, the best way to do London on the Cheap this week is to visit friends and rellies and plough through their festive supplies of food and drink, play silly games, watch a bit of frothy telly (see Londonist Stays In for top tips) and fall asleep mildly pissed. When you get cabin fever however, here's a few ideas for low level expenditure entertainment that doesn't involve church or carol singing. Christmas Eve:......

Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings.. Even seasoned Londoners like learning more about their home city. We're proof - we put our own......

No one seems to know what Lukas Moodysson is up to. People are still reeling from A Hole in my Heart which at times seemed to be an outright attack on his audience's expectations. In itself not a bad thing and we always have room under our wing for a film so ugly, but it did seem to come out of leftfield even when taking into count the darker territory he'd begun to map......

You probably hadn't noticed, but our (almost) world-famous Friday Football Preview has been enjoying a rather extended Christmas break. We tried to convince Editro that this absence was actually a protest to the Premier League, aimed at highlighting the benefits of bringing in a contintental-style winter break, but he was having none of it. Recognising our inherent laziness, he's ordered us to put our Xmas presents back in the toybox and get back to......

Today is a 'half day' for Londonist, as we're all off down the pub or venturing out to the West End armed with a credit card and a cattle prod. There's no Friday Film news as there's no films, well, The Producers is out on Boxing Day, but you'll just have to make your own mind up about that. We'll be back with a 'reduced service' (you know, like the Tube) on the 28th......

This post appears every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures There’s only one gig in town this week. You can’t go because (a) you’re too old, (b) it’s mostly sold out and (c) you’ll be too stuffed with turkey to move. Never fear, though, as the world-famous Royal Institution Christmas......

Well, TV Troll was 50% right, which is better than nowt, as salt-o'-t'earth Strictly Come Dancing winner Darren might say. We're still kicking ourselves for not having put money on Shayne to win as we predicted aaaages ago; we could have bought new cushions for the dungeon or something with the winnings. Congrats to the winners and the runners-up; both finals were superb, although it was a pain in the arse having to swap......

Isn’t it lovely weather today? Well, let’s hope it stays this nice for the rest of the week, as there’s pretty much bugger-all coming up on the idiot box, if you ignore Big Brother (Craig and Kinga in the hot tub is definitely not mind-safe, but will she manage to smarm up to Derek enough to get him to save her?). There are the usual tired old warhorses of the schedules - Casualty, The......

Graham Coxon will be playing a benefit gig in Camden this Sunday for the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami. The gig will take place at Colour on Inverness Street and will also feature The Rifles and I Am Kloot. Doors are at 8 thorugh until 1am, and it's a 'turn up early' affair as tickets are only available on the door. Prepare to queue.......

As you've probably noticed, Londonist has been winding down in the lead up to the Christmas holidays over the past week. Obviously we won't be posting anything tomorrow, Boxing Day or the following Bank holidays, but we'll be back with a 'limited service' (like the Tube) on the 29th leading up to New years Eve. Then we're off again until Januray 4th when we'll come back with all the London news that's fit to read.......

Did you see what we did there? You see, normally it's called Friday Film News, but for today we changed the 'Friday' to 'Festive', because it's all about the films to watch over Xmas on the telly, and we managed to keep the alliteration. Anyway... One note: all these films are on terrestial television. We're not going to do that thing the papers do where we make a big fuss out of one of......

The only bad thing about Christmas? It's just too damn short. Once Boxing Day's over you've only got the stress and ultimate anti-climax that is New Year to look forward to...and then it's back to work. We need more food, more alcohol, more singing and definitely a lot more dancing. Thank God then for the Russian Winter Festival. Taking place a whole two weeks after the New Year, the Russian Winter festival is the......