Ross Geller's palaeontological obsession with dinosaurs, was a reliable comedy stick to poke him with yet its flipside was his friends' admiration for his relentless and geeky academia. However, tonight, dinosaurs will be put in their place at the Grant Museum's Dinosaurs Are Pointless lecture, so prepare to reevaluate your popular US sitcom view of the Jurassic. The free event, from 6.30pm by curator, Mark Carnall, will destroy the mystique of dinosaurology. It sounds......

Fear not the brief absence: London on the Cheap now comes to you on Thursdays, so you'll be freshly equipped for the weekend. Let's do this thing. Friday: The Little Angel Theatre, Islington's home of miniature performance with some strings attached, continues their run of Sleeping Beauty with 50-year-old marionettes and Tchaikovsky on the mini-harpsichord. If you can make it to the 5:00 performance on a Friday, tickets are only £5. Saturday: Do you......

Here’s an invitation you don’t get everyday: the chance to visit the Grant Museum of Zoology and enjoy a free glass of wine amongst the remains of extinct animals such as the dodo, the quagga (a cute zebra/donkey thing) and the Tasmanian tiger during a private view. Or are they extinct? Cryptozoology experts Richard Freeman and Jonathan Downes, of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, not only assert that the thylacine (pictured) is still hopping......

While our attention is on sociological and artistic dichotomies posed by the scientific community, there is yet more thought-provoking stuff scheduled for this evening. And a good chance to see a little known museum in our city too. Don't say we never give you value for money... The Grant Museum of Zoology is one of the University College of London (UCL) museums, originally founded for teaching purposes in 1827, and is packed with skeletons,......