We love to be dazzled by youth. Be it Zadie Smith's precocious debut novel, the Arctic Monkeys storming straight to No.1 or Lewis Hamilton tearing up the track in his first F1 season, we are consistently enraptured and delighted by the ability of the young upstart to reach heights to which they have no right and to let rip with flair and skill that is unencumbered by the fear of failure that haunts the......

News of a film installation to be unveiled at Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town stations shortly alerted us to the fact that TfL's jolly and diverse Platform for Art programme had undergone a rebrand and will be relaunching as Art on the Underground at the end of this month. There's not much in a name, of course, but always fans of wordplay and puns we rather liked "Platform for Art". However, TfL has opted......

24. Haunted Roads For Halloween! Despite London’s congested roads and the daily chorus of thousands of beeping horns, ghosts of the cities roads are in fact sporadic. Look through any catalogue of phantom hitchhikers or ghostly vehicles (for example http://www.roadghosts.com/) and you’ll notice a distinct lack of activity within the capital pertaining to tarmac terrors. Why this is we’ll never know – maybe it’s simply down to the fact that elsewhere in the country,......

If you hadn't noticed, we've been having a love affair with this city since we can remember. Hackney cabs, bagels at four in the morning, grumpy commuters, all night clubbing. It seems nothing is missing. Except maybe one thing: the countryside. It sounds strange, but sometimes it's OK to miss all things green and the sound of a cow. The smell of them sometimes too (alright, maybe not). So next month, those wonderful people......

You're barely considered a proper sport these days unless you augment your league competition with some sort of knockout finale. The Americans seem to have been first with the Superbowl and the baseball world series amongst others, but over here we have largely failed to grasp what really makes those work. In American Football, for example, they divide the country into two "conferences" whose teams play each other only sporadically, and the best half......

So what do you think was the most 'popular' Londonist post of 2005? The July 7 bombings? The whole NME controversy? That 90% of cabbies think blogging is the same thing as dogging? Nope. The clear winner of 'The Most Popular Londonist Post of 2005' award (if you count the number of hits each entry got on its individual page) is (drum roll) Happy Slapping Hits London from back in February, with a massive......

And, by God, did he get around. Stalking Paolozzi was a piece of cake in comparison. The map above is our stab at showing all Dickens’ London addresses. But sources conflict, and there’s bound to be a few missing. During his childhood, Dickens hopped from home to home as his father tried to dodge the debt collectors. Following in his footsteps, we similarly hopped from one location to the next, though largely on account......

Gloucester Road Tube. Who ever uses it? Hands up. OK, maybe a few students from Imperial and the occasional lost tourist. Well, surprisingly, 13 million souls pour through this station each year. A sizeable and distracted chunk of that number will be folks like Londonist, who loiter on the platforms staring at the walls. That's because, for several years now, Gloucester Road has been the shining beacon of LU’s laudable Platform for Art initiative.......

Apparently, something called 'The Premiership' is kicking off this weekend. Bothered? Does Londonist look bothered, mate? Yes that's right, we're really not bothered at all. As far as we're concerned, the Premiership doggers are going to have to wait until the Londonist's bloggers have dragged their attention away from the cricket, which given that England are on top right now, isn't going to happen for a while yet. However, we are always keen to......

Newham, east London, is the new centre of manhole cover theft in the UK. First Aberdeen and then Gloucester were targetted by opportunistic thieves looking to make a quick profit on the scrap metal market, and now it's the turn of the capital. As the world price of steel has more than doubled in the past twelve months, manhole covers are changing hands for around a hundred pounds each. And according to reports in today's......