Londonist doesn’t need much excuse for a party, and firmly believes that we don’t have nearly enough festivals in the UK. So we are delighted to be able to wish all of our Muslim readers a very Happy Eid. The new moon has been sighted in Saudi Arabia, which is all that is needed for Sunni Muslims to celebrate. For reasons too complicated to explain on a light-hearted blog-site, the Shi’ites nearly always announce the......

The rather tortured word-play of "thera-pea" is worth it, trust us. We've got an extraordinary event for your diaries and all will become clear... Bobby Baker is an artist who has been bringing the mundane and the ordinary such as housework and healthcare into the world of art and performance for the last three decades, using food as her media and live presentation as the way to communicate. This means dancing with meringue ladies,......

Monday sees Portland, Oregon’s new indie-rock darlings The Thermals play Dingwalls with support from Siberia’s SonicFlyer. Tickets are still available from See Tickets at £8.50 each plus booking fees. Tellison play their “disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars” at the Camden Barfly, with support coming from Encyclopedia, The Xcerts and Gavin Osborn, with tickets only £6 each. Popular Canadian singer-songwriter Feist plays Scala on Tuesday night, though tickets are long gone unfortunately – Scarlet mist may......

This week - The pilot light's gone out... on the sun (Sunshine) and Will Ferrell goes iceskating (Blades of Glory). Don't you hate it when the sun is going out and you have to go and reignite it? First up, Sunshine Bradshaw gives it 4/5, calling it a "beautiful-looking new space adventure". All of the reviews today are impressed with the way this film looks, It's a film with some stunning sequences and gobsmacking......

And in Olympic news today: someone needs to buy a decent diary: Reports say that the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be held during Ramadan, the most holy month in the Islamic calendar. In 2012 Ramadan will take place from July 21 to August 20 and the 2012 Games run from July 27 to August 12. It’s anticipated 3,000 Muslim competitors would be affected As it turns out we can't really blame Seb......

To the Working Men's Club in Bethnal Green last night for The Idler winter 2006 edition launch party. This issue has an 'eco' theme about it – it is dubbed 'How To Save The World Without Really Trying' – but taking centre stage at last night's event at the club on Pollard Row was the humble ukulele. The Idler editorial appear to have gone ukulele mad this season. The Idler Ukulele Orchestra seems intent......

On average, people in Britain have sex once a week. Five years ago, the Medical Research Council published findings on sex at the Millennium, the results of which were used by government departments to inform sexual health policies and to produce estimates of current levels of HIV infection and AIDS cases. One of the findings of the report (conducted between May 1999 and February 2001) was that "one in 23 men [in the UK]......

Last year this highly un-prestigious honour went to Henley-on-Thames, but in 2006, Barnes has officially bumped Boris's bunch into a shameful second place. Barnes is now THE home shopping capital of Great Britain. Each individual resident in this leafy 'burb spends a not-so-whopping-when-you-think-about-it £149.81 A YEAR on items delivered by mail, according to an annual poll conducted by Experian (a financial services company which keeps tabs on your credit rating. Have you ever been......

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......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the week Brighten your day in the Light Lounge at the Dana Centre There is a school of thought that credits our climate with putting the ‘Great’ into Great Britain. All those long, miserable days have, over the centuries, paid dividends to our national creative output. Forced......

This Sunday on BBC Radio London at 2pm, Danny Kelly will be announcing the winners of the station's Sports Awards for 2005. The categories include footballer, athlete, cricketer and rugby player of the year plus the usual team of the year and personality of the year (Kelly Holmes won last year). Pretty standard stuff so far, but the awards also cast an eye on London's grass-roots sports scene, giving awards for best non-professional team......

So Orlaith the weepy pixie is still in, and Citizen Science, man of the future, is out. Only half a percent difference, apparently. Well, whatever. Fuck you, Great British Big Brother voting public, fuck you. Was it bad thetans that made you vote against Science-tology? Was Xenu or whatever the fuck he’s called secretly influencing your thoughts from his magic multi-dimensional spaceship in Alpha Centauri? Well, whatever, fuck you. Big Brother is going to......

Although Londoners themselves need little encouragement to get back onto the tube and buses and generally keep London ticking, it seems there is at least one group that needs to take extra precautions before daring to come back to the capital: the US Army. Yep, that's right. Although last weekend was safe enough for elderly British service men to gather en mass and schoolchildren and pensioners are once again packing the double deckers our......

What Paula Radcliffe paused to do in the streets of London, bid organisers are doing to the locals. It's possibly the most contrived headline of the week, but it does head a pretty decent article on the damaging effects a London-based 2012 Olympics could have on east London. The article, from today's Times, looks at the 300 or so businesses which could be "cruely evicted" if the bid succeeds: Forman’s is the oldest-established salmon......

George Galloway squared up to Labour's Oona King in Bethnal Green this week in the first of what is bound to be a bruising series of clashes between the New Labour candidate and George’s Respect Party. When asked about the problem of drugs in the constituency, George answered in a way which suggests that he might still be a bit upset over that whole Iraq war business: "If the Royal Navy was not patrolling......

After England's sorry capitulation to France in the Six Nations on Sunday, many in the rugby union community are coming round to the idea that the defection of Great Britain captain Andy Farrell from League to Union would be no bad thing. So, assuming that Farrell (and perhaps more importantly, his injured knee) is up for challenge and the RFU are willing to splash the cash, the obvious question remains what Premiership club would he......