To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we'd be bouncing at. Monday: The biggie tomorrow is of course Led Zep at the O2, but you've more chance of meeting Santa than getting tickets for that. So instead, forget the dinosaurs and try something new......

SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom mea culpa-ing over his Hawaiian getaway during the oil spill, and double-decker buses hitting the streets of San Francisco. Oh, and some baseball player named Barry Bonds is a liar whose pants, it seems, are totally on fire. LAist continues to cover the......

Judging from the deluge that hit parts of the capital Monday morning, a rain dance is the last thing soaked Londoners need this week. Lucky, then, that we're actually talking about the Raindance Film Festival, which opens on Tuesday night. Now in its fifteenth year, Raindance has matured from a youthful dalliance as the edgy alternative to the LFF to become one of Europe's most highly respected film festivals, and a proving ground for......

It may not be the strangest sight that Nelson has descried from his perch this year, but the Lomography London Lomowall in Trafalgar Square would no doubt raise an inquisitive eyebrow from the good Admiral. Part of this year's London Design Festival, the Lomowall consists of hundreds of thousands of photos, taken with the cult Lomo camera, stuck onto plasterboard and arranged in a 350 metre long maze across the Square. The snaps have......

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. Torontoist Special Report: Rosie to Trump: "Fire 300 Bicyclists for Fraud!" On DCist: Students Go Wild for Slogans, Secrets and Sexual Harassment The action was thick......

A large number of people wearing black descended on Kentish Town last night in order to see Mastodon, heavyweights of the Atlanta prog-math-tech-doom-art-metal scene, unleash their waves of intricate chords and furiously-paced drumbeats at the Forum, and Londonist was pleased to join them. After wandering in to the main floor unchallenged (despite being in possession of balcony tickets) but then deciding we'd rather have a civilised drink unjostled by the hordes of fans with......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

Our weekly roundup (late because of the bank holiday) of what went on last week around the Istiverse: Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. You have no idea how pleased we are this week. There is so much going on! We don't feel alone in the world anymore! London book nerds rejoice -- we've got events to attend! And with the exception of the one about work, they're really good events! (In reality, the one about work might......

And so it was decreed that on the 23rd day of January after having taken Christmas off to let the punters indulge themselves in X-Factor winners and soft rock compilation albums, proper music would rise again from the ashes of the yule fireplace, shake out it's lurid feathers and start rocking. Should we read today then as an omen for what's to come? Who cares. First up (in true bad punning style) it's Ricky......

Found Magazine is itself a real find: it's a collection of the poignant, funny, frightening and just outright odd bits and pieces of paper that slip through life's cracks. As the website says: We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes... There's a voyeuristic thrill to be had browsing Found......

We like magazines. We like free things. So it stands to reason that we'd like free magazines. Or so you'd think. Ok, Vice was required reading for a while there, if only for the novelty value, but their conservative hipster schtick gets pretty old pretty fast (plus, if you don't subscribe you're are pressed to find the thing). Young pretender Good for Nothing was a little bit of a disappointment. There was no doubting......

Weird War at the Underworld, Tuesday 3rd May Londonist has to admit to having known nothing about Weird War before but strong recommendations (and a ticket) from a couple of friends led to us being trapped behind a pillar in the Underworld on Tuesday surrounded by every line of cool hipster fashion; from South Park truck driver chic to post goth romo whatever. There's even the singer from Part Chimp. We're definitely in the......

We here at the Londonist are never averse to a bit of guerrilla marketing, provided it's done cleverly and unobtrusively. It warms our hipster hearts to see giant, faceless advertising firms reaching out to Da Kidz through subversive (and occasionally subliminal) means. However, we find that, in general, it helps if your target audience has not seen you go through the entire agonising creative process you used to gin up your campaign. It tends......

Londonist (well, at least three of us) were privileged enough to pop along to the resurgent Camden Crawl, which capitalised on Camden's indie scene rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its post-Britpop implosion. Overall we were well impressed with the variety of talent on offer, with several acts (Art Brut, the Others and surprise headliner the Buzzcocks) standing out, and we were glad of the chance to reaffirm our own indie cred......