Bless our cotton socks! It’s British Pie Week. Honestly, we’re not sure if this is a real ‘mark your calendars sort of thing’ or just a marketing ploy by the folks at Jus-Rol. Either way, Londonist can think of all sorts of foods not to celebrate this week. So we’re cool with devoting a week’s worth of merriment toward the humble pie. Should our dear readers decide to join in the fun, we happily......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Here's our look back at the good, the bad and the hungry of 2007. Since starting What’s for Lunch? in May, we have reviewed forty lunch venues throughout London. We tried the arty, the hearty and the terribly farty. We stirred up a bit of controversy with a mildly approving review of an evil hot dog vendor. And, we......

Londonist loves Horse Meat Disco at South Central in Vauxhall. But it's on a Sunday night. So what do you do if you need a bit of disco on a Saturday, well Disco Bloodbath has arrived and it's Hackney based antics are making us pretty excited. Dan Beaumont, Damon Martin and Ben Pistor are the boys behind it When and why did you set your night up? Damon:Our night began in April of this......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Jollof Pot Exmouth Market at the corner near Farringdon Road Nearest Tube: Farringdon, Angel 0207 254 5333 12pm-2.30pm (Monday-Friday) Map Expect to Pay: around £5 Rating: 8 out of 10 We’ve been happily grabbing our lunch from Exmouth Market Ghanaian food vendors, Jollof Pot, for over a year now and are pleased to report that the only thing we’ve......

Fresh Next Week: Born in 1949 in what is now Croatia, Dubravka Ugrešić made a controversial figure with her trenchant opposition to nationalism, both Serbian and Croatian. Her latest book Nobody’s Home tours Europe and America, finding that as the former Eastern bloc has thrown itself whole-heartedly into Western-style modernisation, the West itself is, ironically, beginning to take on some of the characteristics of the old Soviet state. Thursday 4 October, 7pm, The London......

It was pointed out to us, when we posted last week about rugby pubs, that somewhere else had done it better by team. Well yes, they had, but they'd got a bit lazy after the home teams and our closest European friends and bunched the rest of the world together. We know that London is the most diverse city in the world so we've made it our mission to find you, whichever rugby nation......

Four Tories want to be our next Mayor. We contacted each of them to see where they stand on London's most pressing issues. And, of course, whether they've ever been sick on the Tube. Andrew Boff was the first to return answers. As Mayor, the Boffmeister would shrink the Boroughs, remove the C-charge...and use Second Life instead of the airports? Where do you live in London and what do you like best about it?......

It wasn't so long ago that London-based "social music revolution" website Last.fm was bought out by American media behemoth (no, not the band) CBS. We asked co-founder of Last, Martin Stiksel what it meant for the site - and what on earth is going on with Paris Hilton ... What does the CBS deal mean for Last? Apart from £140m, of course. It means we get the muscle behind us to do all the......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. F. Cooke 9 Broadway Market E8 4PH Map Average Lunch Price: Under £5 Rating: 9.5 out of 10 The Shady Old Lady’s Guide to London calls this “stalwart” of Broadway Market the “perfect example” of a pie and mash shop, “complete with sawdust on the floors and eels in the window.” Reviews at London Eating are similarly glowing, with......

There are London Literature Festivals, and then there's London Literature Plus. This independent rival to the South Bank's extravagnza also kicked off yesterday, and involves almost 30 lit-related events. Here's a pick of the highlights. July 3: Poejazzi. Poetry and jazz? Not necessarily a winning combination in everyone's book, but Time Out certainly like it. They listed Poejazzi amongst their 101 things to do in London 2007. 8pm, Volupté. July 5: Social Disease Social.......

>>Before we begin, a small non-profit Theatre group is looking for a free rehearsal space one night a week. Email bookgrocer@gmail.com if you can help or know of any good sized rooms (church halls, pub back rooms, community art centres), the more central the betterFresh this Week: Thursday - it’s not quite a weeknight (Casual Fridays opens up new hangover opportunities; wear a wide brimmed hat to work and no-one will notice) however its......

Just out the Van: Alan Lee, best known as co-lead artist on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, but also the conceptual designer on the films Legend, Erik the Viking and King Kong and the television miniseries Merlin will be signing The Children Of Húrin tonight. Get your geek on at 6pm, Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2H 8JR. In Next Week: The Society of Young Publishers presents a reading by......

Aidan Brooks, Trainee Chef, hits Broadway Market during a rare moment of sunshine and provides us with a little Flickr photo show of all the good stuff he finds there (the above is one of those photos). Jess at Ripe London gets some popcorn along with her ceviche at La Bodeguita del Medio and is not pleased: "What this city needs is an honest, unfussy Cuban joint, unpretentious in a mi casa, su casa......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday Based on his columns for McSweeny's, Nick Hornby's The Complete Polysyllabic Spree seems rather a lazy excuse for a "meta" book. Hornby (pictured) explores books - what he buys, what he reads and what he doesn't. Oh well, the man's gotta eat - join the polysyllabic discussion tonight as he continues to wax......