Would setting the license on this image to be "All rights reserved" count as irony? by cowfish Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.......

Festival season embeds itself in our social life this week and makes a mockery of our diary – it’s all illegible scribblings, strike-throughs, and exclamation points. Whilst we attempt to sort ourselves out, let’s see what sense we can make of the week ahead in literary London for you... Monday: Bebop hep-cats (that’s right, hep-cats) converge on the Troubadour tonight to celebrate the 1950s poetry scene (8pm, £6/£5 concessions); biographers Anne Sebba and Andrew......

The souvenir shops are going to have to act fast to respond to Westminster Council securing the copyright to its street signs. No longer are the people making and selling the signs to tourists simply manufacturers or vendors -- they've now been stamped with a scarlet C for counterfeiters and they only have a month to obtain a license to make and sell the iconic plaques designed by Sir Misha Black in the '60. If......