If there was any doubt that it’s now glam to be a geek, then last night confirmed it once and for all. The inaugural Silicon Stilettos meet up in Soho brought together women in tech for a drink and a gossip. Tackling the typical 80/20 ratio of men to women at most tech gatherings, the event sought to redress this imbalance in London’s buzzing digital scene – and did a pretty storming job of......

The plodding workweek ahead is revitalised with your weekly installment of delightfully affordable post-daily grind activities. Oh, that and it's a Bank Holiday weekend. With a big cheers to that, let's see what's on offer in Londontown's wet summer wind-down: Monday: It's summer season at the Houses of Parliament, which means that you get a rare look inside the Big Smoke's government happenings. Well, technically Parilament is in recess and its members are away......

You heard it here first: Primrose Hill’s most-talked about starlet has been spotted running errands around North London. We can’t exactly bring you specific details about what kind of errands they were. We could hazard a guess – maybe popping to nearby Chalk Farm’s Morrisons to make the most of their money saving deals; buying up a couple of light bulbs; or perchance picking up some snaps from her recent romantic getaway with the......

Amy Winehouse's mid-song patter has leaned rather heavily on her 'incarcerated Blake' since he was locked up awaiting trial last November. And it doesn't look like she'll be needing a new autocue anytime soon, as her hubby has just pleaded guilty to the assault that has landed him in trouble. He and his two co-defendants admitted attacking landlord of the Macbeth pub in Hoxton, James King, back in 2006 – and also pleaded guilty......

Well, it serves this Londonista right for seeking something inane and non-controversial as a lead today. Sixty something schmoozer secretly seeks solace in the company of a range of rather lovely ladies in London. Hardly headline stuff, even if the sexagenarian in question is Macca. Earlier on this year it was the turn of Sabrina Guinness, herself a serial dater, and then late summer saw him dallying with married millionairess Nancy Shevell, and now it......

Hey you there! Pay attention at the back! The latest episode of the sub-EastEnders drama that is Amy Winehouse's life is here, and you don't want to miss out, do you? Ready? Okay, well, the plot around Camden's royal couple has well and truly thickened. It seems that a Carshalton man has appeared in court, accused of bribing a publican whom he allegedly assaulted with dear Amy's incarcerated husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, last year. The......

It’s cold outside this week, so it seems like the best plan is to cozy up on the couch and watch some telly. Why would you want to risk frostbite? On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 12 November I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here (ITV1, 21:00-22:30) It’s off to the jungle yet again with Ant & Dec as they guide a new group of “celebs” through as many disgusting tasks as you’d......

A night of clubbing is as much about the music you want to hear as it is the experience you hope to get out of it. Whilst there are endless opportunities to don your best threads and brave the night buses to see and be seen, we prefer to come as we are, get sweaty and get down. With their irresistible selection of post-punk and electro classics and obscurities, Our Disco ticks all our......

Monday night sees mad Australians Architecture in Helsinki come to the capital to play Koko after a stop off at Bestival this weekend. Tickets are £12.50 each and still available for box office collection. Faithless play the first of two nights in the capital at Shepherds Bush before moving on to Brixton on Tuesday night, which is mostly sold out though there are some balcony seats left. KT Tunstall plays an instore at HMV on......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

Spitalfields Market, in case you hadn't noticed, has been undergoing a major facelift. Last year, the revamped western end reopened with trendy boutiques and eateries, amid grumbles from some quarters that the area would lose its character (it hasn't). Now it's the turn of the central market. This has now closed for around 3 months while the floor is refurbished. The usual Thursday, Friday and Sunday markets will be moved to a spot on......

I've discussed my disinclination to leave my house to see live music in this column before, along with the irony that I expect others to do the exact same thing to see me play. What can I say, I'm a fickle artist! It's not that I don't love and appreciate human beings making music right in front of me, but that there are so many factors that can get in the way of my......

Lots on sale tomorrow morning and today, so straight in we go. First up, Smashing Pumpkins have announced a one off date at Shepherds Bush Empire on Tuesday 19th June, ahead of their (sure to be) sensational return to Reading and Leeds Festivals. Tickets are sure to go quickly, so make sure you're there are 9:30 tomorrow morning to catch them. Londonist favourite Mika has announced two London shows as part of a full UK......

Just once in a while, wouldn't it be fun to go to a club night and still be able to hear yourselves think? Actually have a conversation? Somewhere where you can still have a dance, but don't have to push your way to the bar and then be ignored by a barman for half an hour? If so, look no further than Rocktronica. A weekly 'club' night that should serve you perfectly. OK, so......

The chaps behind 'We're going to need a bigger boat' - Highgate's popular monthly film quiz - are back with a new gig. 'See Me After School' will fact you till you fart about all manner of intra- and extra-curricular activities. Each part is divided into a number of rounds, each with a different topic. Most of these mirror your normal school subjects, such as Science, Music, Geography, History, Art, English... but there are......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the opportunity to gossip about it.......

We introduced Charlotte Hatherley's new EP a few weeks ago and since then have been dancing round London listening to her 2nd album The Deep Blue. Lead single I Want You To Know is out in late February but until then myspace has a couple of things to keep you going. A Chiswick girl, we spoke to Charlotte about her music and good ol' London. You quit Ash last year, why did you want......

We knew something strange was happening when one of Londonist's friends who likes house music and r&b and refuses to listen to indie music started singing The Gossip's amazing Standing In The Way of Control while doing the weekly shopping last week. It was only when we were pigging out in front of the television watching Hollyoaks later than night that we realised why. Yes possibly 2006's greatest song is being used on the really......

It's the time of year that sends compulsive list makers in to a frenzy, and this girl is no exception. It's the Notes From The City Official 2006 End Of Year Things-That-Laura-Liked Summary - catchy! It's as much a list of things I really think everyone should check out as a list of my favourite things from the year, so follow the links at will... Top 10 Albums 1. The Eraser - Thom Yorke 2.......

Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month - a virtual book tour in which he'll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we'd leave the Q&A's and reviews for other legs of the trip we asked Themanwhofellasleep instead to talk a little about what's been going on in the press of late... Hello, this is Greg aka Themanwhofellasleep. You may know me from my......

Last time we wrote about a list the NME had published, they tried to sue us. This time we're actually impressed by what they've written. Yes, it's time for that all important 'how cool am i today list' aka the NME 2006 Cool List. Instead of people like Pete Doherty and Alex Turner, who ruled the roost last year, this years list is surprising. It's topped by a woman: a woman who is not......

Much as the incarcerated writers of the Londonist Music Dungeon enjoy relaying our recommendations on music, we can never shake off the mantra murmured to us by our inner voices: 'music writers are failed musicians'. So it's with great pleasure that we start a column written by someone who's a participant in our fair city's music and arts scene, rather than a mere spectator. Introducing Laura Kidd... Amidst the throes of adult chickenpox I......

We like Proud Galleries. They put on wonderful free exhibitions of great rock photography. We like War Child too. Not only do they release great albums, put on their own wonderful free exhibitions, but they're also a damn fine charity. So when we heard about War Child's Your Child show at Proud Camden, then we thought we'd take a mosy on down. Just so we could honestly say to you that we think you......

This week: 16 Blocks, Metal: a Headbanger's Journey and Slither. Plus all the usual gossip and Trailer of the Week. In the last FFN we complained a lot about the fact that that there were no decent films on release. So what do we go and do today? We take one look at the best-reviewed film of the week and decide we're going to ignore it. Enron: The Smartest Guy in the Room is......

How can the majority of England fans drag the cameramen and reporters away from focussing on a violent minority? Tonight from 7pm at The Offside Bar, 271 City Road, London EC1, over a hundred fans who will be travelling to Germany will be meeting the media to seek support for their campaign for good news stories this June. They will be expressing their concern at the constant anti-German angle to much of the pre......

This post is written from a personal point of view, eschewing the Ist 'We' for once, because it expresses what is most decidedly a minority view within the Londonist camp. I disagree entirely with what Alex wrote below; here's why ... Confession time: I'm a lapsed boatie. I still have the calluses - they never go away - and the drawer-full of self-designed t-shirts - complete with "hilarious" nicknames - to prove it. Why......

That's a confusing headline isn't it? What we mean is that Mick Jagger, who has apparently "been living out of hotels for the past few years" is thought to be finally settling down with his girlfriend L'Wren Scott (pictured). According to the online gossip the couple have been scouring west London for "plush Victorian houses": The properties the pair have viewed range from £2 million to £6.5 million in price. Most of the swanky......

Ming Campbell Elected Leader Londonist must put its hands up and admit to being entirely wrong about the result of the Liberal Democrat leadership election. We thought Huhne would pip it marginally. The gossip in the House of Commons Members' Tea Room was that Huhne had won it, right up until 2:45 this afternoon, when the tide turned towards Ming. In fact, after Simon Hughes was eliminated from the competition, and the second preferences......

We've always had somewhat of an big girly crush on Simon Pegg. We loved Shaun of the Dead, and we think we've nearly worn out our Spaced DVDs. He makes us so weak at the knees, that when we once saw him at a Charlotte Hatherley gig at ULU, we were starstruck and unable to move, never mind attempt to say hello. So, it's with great excitement that today we read that he's finally......

> Is Paris Hilton the next Madonna? Over the past few weeks she's been constantly referred to in connection with our capital city. First it's claimed she has no idea that London is in the UK, something every Londoner was quite happy about as it makes Madge-esque bouts of Anglophilia decidedly trickier. But then it seems someone gave Paris an atlas because ITV booked her to come over and be a 'roving reporter' during this......