If the Guardian hadn't given Will Hodgkinson £5000 to start a record label then Londonist wouldn't be spending Friday night in a folk club in Euston. But we're here for the album launch of Rosemarie, the debut long-player from new young folkers, Thistletown. Strangely the place does not fully resemble a hive of outcasts from The Wicker Man: bristling beards and woolly jumpers, curling tresses and flowing dresses. There are day we say it,......

Londonist arrived at work a few days ago to hear some distressing news: AMT, which only serves 100% Fairtrade coffee to its punters, appears to have lost the contract from Network Rail for their outlets at ten of London’s major railway stations. The company that has won the franchise in AMT’s place does not, we are told, offer any Fairtrade products. Our distress stems from the fact that not only will we be losing......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

That's not sarcasm, we mean it most sincerely. So sincerely in fact that we're going to write it again... in capital letters. GOD BLESS GEORGE GALLOWAY. Amen to that. Why do we love George so much? Well for a start if it weren't for George we might be forced to write about Pete Doherty, and the thought of that is so depressing it's almost enough to make us to grow a moustache and start......

With the 25th London Marathon taking place on Sunday we thought we'd give you a few of the most useful and interesting links we could find to put you in the long-distance frame of mind. First off, obviously, it's the official site which, among other things, has a detailed list of pubs around the course, and a nice PDF map of the route. Then there's there's the BBC site which has all the usual......