There are just too many good events around town this week for us to narrow our picks for certain nights. Thus we present you with multiple options and leave that difficult choice to you. In the meantime, we’ll be brushing up on our science fiction in an effort to figure out how to move quickly from event to event. The solution? Teleporting. Clearly. Monday: writLoud returns to RADA tonight. We like this event, as......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

There's a serious leak in Haringey, and the unfortunate residents have had to cope with unamusing oozings of a fecal persuasion. The shit has most inconveniently hit the fan at a local funeral stationary supplier. A trade that requires tact and delicacy isn't helped by reeking pools of effluent by the door. It makes me feel physically sick when I come up here, it smells so bad because it's raw sewage. It is a......

With four of our favourite new bands in town this week, it is a grand time to be heading out and checking out some live music. Friday: Until we get our own band together, Fuckshovel remain the best named band in Britain. And other places. We'll be bringing you more from the 'shovel next month but in the meantime come on down to The Peel in Kingston for about 7.30 for a couple of......

Goldfinger. Bah-Bah BAH! He’s the man…who should have used thicker toilet paperrrrr. So went the iconic sixties Bond theme. (Or was that the man with the golden pun? No matter.) Goldfinger is that rare example of a man who left his mark on both the silver screen and the west London skyline. For those who are puzzled right now, the famous Bond villain was actually named after a real-life architect, one Ernő Goldfinger. Ian......

If you can imagine Death From Above 1979 as two twin teen sisters from Seattle playing sparkly, wiser than their meager years, power pop then you'll be able to imagine Smoosh. Their debut She Like Electric Comes has just been released over here and from what we've heard so far it's pretty damn fine. With previous touring partners Sufjan Stevens and the Go! Team providing a better than credible pedigree you now have a......

Going to the theatre is a potential minefield of inconvenience. Uncomfortable seats, overpriced ice-cream and a mile-long queue for the toilets – how can that compete with the comfort of your living room sofa, home cooking and 666 channels of homogenised fluff on Sky? If you pick a duff show to boot, you’ll probably be sat there (in aforementioned uncomfortable seat) mentally listing these very aggravations, fantasising about your remote control. If you pick......

London's regular birds are sharing their air space with a slightly more spectacular feathered friend after a bald eagle made its escape from a bird sanctuary. The eagle, named Alaska, is actually Canadian by birth but we expect will be brow beaten by local pigeons that mistake her for an American and blame her for the Bush re-election. The eagle's owners have said the bird is "friendly" and are of course concerned about her......

SE1 has always been a place of cultural interest ever since those early tourists the Vikings rowed their longboats up the Thames and pulled London Bridge into the river with grappling hooks. Now a thousand years later another long haired blonde has set his sights on the area: Peter Stringfellow. We read on the SE1 Blog that Stringfellow has "moved into a £1.2 million flat at Peninsula Heights" and, get this, perjury committing justice......