This is what we’ve learned whilst you’ve been out boozing all weekend: A replica of Crystal Palace is to be built. at, uh, Crystal Palace. The march of the EMOs – teeny protestors march on the Daily Mail. It’s Recycle Now Week, so go check out the 6m Coke can replica of Big Ben on the South Bank. A new mosque has opened in Acton. London’s diabetes sufferers are at a greater risk of......

Art lovers: brace yourselves for the onslaught of tutting, snorting and Daily Mail outrage that breaks out every summer. That's right - the Turner Prize shortlist was announced this morning. Mark Leckey is the biggest name on a list with no celebrity artists on it; his combinations of film, performance and sculpture have made him odds-on favourite with the bookies already, and the obsession with Felix the Cat in his work should get him......

The arrival of two Hollywood heavyweights in our fair city has given the local media the perfect opportunity to do what they do best: namely, sneer at the lady while swooning over the gent. Renee Zellweger and George Clooney have been in town this week for the UK premier of the Clooney-directed film, Leatherheads. And the differing reactions to the pair from the ranks of Fleet Street's finest couldn't be more illustrative. Gushing journalists......

We've spent enough time wading through the flytipped rubbish on our street or struggling to blast the grime off our bodies following a grubby commute home to realise that London's not exactly the cleanest of places. But is it really the dirtiest city in Europe? In a shameless promotion, travel experts Trip Advisor commissioned a survey asking tourists to rank their likes and dislikes across a number of continental destinations, and London cleaned up......

It's been a bad few weeks for the Spice Girls: they released the worst selling Children In Need single ever (to put this into perspective, let's remember that Martine McCutcheon once had a Children In Need single. Martine McCutcheon), appeared in terrible Tesco adverts, played to half full shows in America and Baby Spice sprained her little baby ankle on stage. However, little Emma Bunton ingested her weight in painkillers, soldiered on and appeared......

You might think the act of visiting an art gallery specifically to gawp at a hole in the ground would obviate the need to remind people not to trip over said hole. Apparently not. Mere days after the unveiling of Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth, a 548 foot long fissure running the length of the Turbine Hall, people are already coming unstuck. One young woman reportedly fell feet-first into the exhibit and had to be dragged......

New figures released yesterday show, well, they show that London is pretty much doing what it always does: changing. Quite how is not entirely apparent. The newspapers managed to get some headline footage out of the statistics – the Daily Mail even ran a story about the UK population across the whole of the front page. And of course, there is some stuff to report. Most significantly, shedsful of Londoners are upping camp and shipping......

You could be forgiven for not giving a fig about how the candidates for the London mayoral elections in 2008 are shaping up. Londonist, however, does. On the left, the Greens were first off the block in March with the selection of anti-4x4 campaigner Sian Berry, followed by Respect (remember them?) in April with Lindsey German, who stood last time on behalf of Team Galloway. For the far right, the British National Party have selected......

British sculpture has a lot to thank the Royal College of Art for - its students include celebrated sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Richard Wentworth and Jake Chapman. So, Londonist was pleased to notice that the college's sculpture show by this year's graduating students has just opened. The centrepiece of the exhibition, by artist Jodie Carey, no doubt appearing in a Daily Mail diatribe soon, is a nine-foot wedding cake comprised of......

OK, we put our hands up. We're guilty of talking about Banksy far too much, and even making the occasional factual error about his work. But here's a mega-blooper from the mainstream press. See this classic Banksy piece from Rosebery Avenue? It's been there for years. Yet several newspapers are proclaiming 'Banksy Strikes Again', including The Times, Metro and the Daily Mail (who have now pulled the story). They're even getting the location wrong,......

Here's a headline you don't see every day: Man hacks off penis in London restaurant Ouch. Maybe he only meant to leave the tip? "This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about... Everyone was screaming and running out as he jumped on a table, dropped his trousers and popped his penis out. Then he cut it off. I couldn't believe it." Police said......

Lots of stuff to get through today, but we're starting small (sort of) with the immortalisation (sort of) of old favourite Tox as pictured above. Cheers to dr seagate for the link and photo. It's not quite the Tate Modern, but it's a (small) step in the right direction. More small wonders here and the press page features our favourite headline; Canaray Dwarf. Onto bigger things. Sherlock Holmes is making yet another comeback according......

If Mr. T had a jibba jabbering British equivalent, what might he do if he and his trusty sidekicks were busted and broken apart? Terry Adams, leader of the notorious Adams crime family (aka the ‘A Team’), might be able to tell us – from prison. On Friday, Adams was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to seven years in the clink. At the height of their power, in the late 1980s, they were......

Here's the latest news following the recent fatal shootings: Did 15-year-old Billy Cox die because of a text message? Sir Ian Blair will be meeting John Reid to discuss the shootings. Cameron reckons it's down to the fathers and wants powers introduced to "compel" them to look after the kids. The BBC has been testing the mood on the streets: They have no conscience. They think they can just do whatever they like. They......

British Airways continues its ongoing campaign to prove to the world that airtravel for the 21st century is green, safe, convenient, and much cheaper than those using those stinky old trains. The Daily Mail reveals that British Airways has been attempting to sort out lost luggage by chucking it all on a plane and sending it to Italy where the Italian baggage handling establishment will sort it all out. No, seriously. We're not making......

The Independent Online has a loved-up profile of Pete Doherty. His PR people must be on red alert, as yesterday the Daily Mail’s A.N. Wilson was blaming him and Kate Moss for the murders of the five women in Suffolk. It was an unusually reasonable piece to begin with, asking why the media don’t discuss the womens’ drug use, and then Wilson loses it by going into frothy-mouth mode. Nick Hasted's profile chronicles Doherty’s......

Yesterday we said: West Ham’s new owners are playing two hands. If they stay in the Premiership, fine and dandy, but if not there’s the possibility of moving into the Olympic stadium in a few years which might allow the lucrative sale of their existing ground. Only a few hours afterwards, faced with relegation and ejection from the Premiership "spaceship bound for Planet Megabucks", they showed the first of their cards in ruthlessly dismissing......

Mobile clubbing, flashmobbing, whatever you call it, videos of these events never fail to raise a smile. Check out the older gentleman at the end of the video, you can see him formulating a letter to the Daily Mail in his head. "...and she had BLUE hair! Can you believe it?..." The instructions implored the dancers to, DANCE FOR AS LONG THE MOOD TAKES YOU According to a Londonist reader picking up a friend from......

Wireless network to extend over the whole of Westminster within about 6 months. About fricking time. The police are told they can use giant water canons to control crowds. That'll create an interesting situation if any 'save our reservoirs' campaigns get out of hand. We've endured Tube strikes, fire strikes and bus strikes. Brace your arteries for a blood strike. Bad news for this dog. The pollonium trail widens. Daily Mail to start offering......

The police are having a rotten week. They still haven't haven't caught the Ripper, but got caught themselves while being wankers on the phone, have to wear head mounted sex cams, had their own personal data nicked and found that you can't go pulling guns on people just because they work for The Sun. It's almost as if they've come under the influence of a malevolent entity. Perhaps it's simply a case of them......

"The annual farce of the Turner Prize is now as inevitable in November as is the pantomime at Christmas." - Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard, 19 November 1992 The Turner Prize is "intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art." This rather lofty decription of the award's intention tends to translate each year into tabloid indignation about how rubbish, elitist and silly modern art is. There will be the inevitable......

Remember the 100-year-old who had to be forced to take a day off work to celebrate his centenary? Turns out he may not be as mad as we had previously assumed. No. An expert (that's a-n expert, not A-n-n-e Expert) has found that being unemployed could be as dangerous as smoking 400 cigarettes a day. This 'expert' (a Prof. Mansel Aylward of the University of Protestant Work Ethics) also claims that his analysis of......

Latest airport news: Air France yesterday cancelled four flights to London due to congestion, but generally it looks like things are getting better. The Daily Mail meanwhile gets right to the heart of the issue...by slagging off John Prescott. The hearing against the Met over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes was adjourned yesterday after police lawyers requested extra time to consider their plea. Ken's new planning powers will go under public consultation......

David Cameron's quest to become carbon neutral got a helpful push yesterday when plans to build solar panels and a roof turbine on the Tory leader's house received the go-ahead from Tory-run Kensington and Chelsea Council. They approved the installation of a turbine on the condition that it is of "limited size and grey in colour". Wind turbines can save you approximately a third off your electricity bill but with a price tag of......

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore's Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts' Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at "porn" take on Peter Pan's Wendy / Alan Moore's erotic Lost Girls / Rich Johnson on Lost Girls / Rich Johnson Reviews Lost Girls You know already then that this is going to be awesome. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has......

Is this the coolest thing Ken has ever said? Daily Mail is ‘broadly racist’ and the Standard is only less so because racism would hurt their sales. Nigeria has warned its citizens to be wary of fraudsters when travelling in Britain. Apparently one of the favourite ticks on the Tube is "to “pick up an object which had fallen under their victim’s seat” in order to distract attention" The Government wants to turn London's......

So yesterday we heard that two of the eight short-listed sites for Britain’s proposed ‘super-casino’ are in London. Pitching East against West (not for the first time), the Millennium Dome and Wembley Stadium are competing for their own jackpot – the casino will undoubtedly rake in mountains of cash. Of course, following yesterday’s shortlist announcement, the inevitable hysteria was kick-started this morning on the front page of the Daily Mail, who have unsurprisingly chosen......

The wet-knickered waiting for the casting of Dirty Dancing for stage is over. According to the Daily Mail, a complete unknown will play the coveted role of Baby (whom nobody puts in a corner) - but a little closer reading reveals that the lucky actress has already been in the West End, starring opposite no less than Dame Diana Rigg in Honour at the Wyndham's Theatre and in two Shakespeare plays at the Crucible......

While we're on the subject of unusual pairings (see The Hoff and Bobby Davro below) we should mention the fact that Elton John and Freddie Flintoff are rumoured to be planning a duet in Battersea Park this summer. We realise this sounds as unlikely as, say, the star of Baywatch popping up in Wimbledon dressed as a pirate but we assure you it's true (probably, the story is from the Daily Mail): England's man-of-the-series......

Since discovering that her marriage into British Royalty might have been based around an early Heat poll a month or so after Lock, Stock etc was released, Madonna's further excavation of her family tree has revealed that she's perhaps a little closer to the real thing than she might ever have imagined. Now you might be wondering why this is in anyway worthy of coverage, anywhere, but read on faithful Londonistas as we reveal......