Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Freightliners Farm Café Freightliners Farm, Sheringham Road, N7 8PF 0207 609 0467 Wednesday to Sunday - 11am to 4pm Expect to Pay: around £4 for soup and salad or sandwich, £7 for most mains How awesome is this place? A real live working farm just off gritty Holloway Road (and the only city farm in the UK with a......

There's a storm brewing over the future of Sobell Leisure Centre in Hornsey Road, Holloway. Passionate local residents and users of the 1973, concrete block of a diverse, multi-purpose sports facility are accusing Islington Council of steamrolling ahead with plans to demolish and rebuild the centre in spite of strong local feeling in favour of refurbishment. The current plan would mean the closure of any facility at Sobell for 2 years whilst it was......

Meet Language. Based in East London (but not defined by it!), they've chosen their myspace category to be "melodramatic popular song", are obsessed with falafel, like dressing in black, have a song called "Theme for a Porno", record on Hornsey Road and were screwed out of a producer by Kate Nash. They're not bitter mind. We were going to tell you our favourite song but having just listened to them all again on myspace......

We loved Maximo Park when they first appeared, we love them now, and we particularly love the fact that they once sang a bit of Billie Piper down the phone to us. Having checked them out at a small Scala gig two weeks ago, we've got no doubt that their new material is as good as the old. After creating an overnight queue of 1000 people wanting tickets in Argyll Street last week, they......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 12. St Chad's Place Where? Dingy little dogleg behind King's Cross Thameslink. What? Ah, St Chad. You know, the brother of St Cedd and St Cynibild? Founder of the moanstery at Barrow-upon-Humber? Patron saint of rigged elections? No? Since ancient times, this spot contained a small, health-giving spring dedicated to the saint. St Chad's Well, was one of several ancient and important water supplies associated......

This week One of our favourite London bands Boy Kill Boy release new single Civil Sin today, the third single to be taken from their debut album Civilian. To celebrate the band complete with their very straight hair and swoonworthy eyeliner will be performing at the new Fopp on Tottenham Court Road at 5.30pm on Tuesday Aug 1. Originally released last year on Fierce Panda, you can watch the new video online here which......

Two days to go and eight games to play in the group stages of the world cup and only Brazil and Spain are going into them sure of their places in the knockout phase. Much of today's attention will centre on the clash between the USA and Ghana at 3pm where a win would see Ghana through, as might a draw, but even a victory might not be enough for the States if the......

So what have we picked for you this week? Tonight: Indie shoegazers unite, you have nothing to lose but your memories as Ride's Mark Gardener promotes his new solo outing: Beautiful Ghosts. Televise and Model Morning These join the bill at the Luminaire. Elsewhere, quirky art-pop punkers The Victorian English Gentlemens Club play a free show at Catch 22 with Black Wire. Band onstage at 9.15 Saturday: Glam gutterpunks Lorca play Flook @ Nambucca,......

Three men in their early 20s were stabbed in the ticket hall at Holloway Road Tube station last night. One is serious but stable with stomach injuries. The other two have cuts to their hands and arms. One man has been arrested. A reporter for the Daily Mirror has been arrested after trying to land a job at Buckingham Palace. The farce surrounding the rebuilding of the Royal London hospital and St Bartholomew's is apparently......

Faced with a bewildering array of ways to consume music, today's mp3-hungry media-savvy fans have come to expect their rock and roll served up on a plate. What with digital music revenues tripling from 2004 to 2005, online marketing certainly seems the sensible option for new bands on the cusp of breaking through. So are the days of grass roots promotion on the toilet circuit numbered? Nope, not even close. Now more than ever......

Like most Londoners we were shocked and upset by the news last week that 28-year-old Richard Whelan had been stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack on the top deck of the number 43 bus as it travelled along the Holloway Road. Today's Guardian carries a truly astonishing piece of writing by a female passenger who was travelling on the lower deck of the bus and attempted to help Mr Whelan as he lay......

With construction well under way at Arsenal's new Ashburton Grove stadium, everything looks set for it to become one of the best stadiums in the country to watch football. That's of course assuming you'll actually be able to get there to watch a game of football in the first place. It appears that instead of Drayton Park station and Holloway Road tube being upgraded as planned to the tune of £7.5m from the club......

The papers today are full* of the Kamel Bourgass story, the guy who was arrested back in 2003, murdered a Manchester policeman and is already serving a life sentence. He's now been given a further seventeen years for his part in a suspected al-Qaeda plot. The details make for grim reading after reporting restrictions were lifted on Wednesday and unsurprisingly London was a possible target. Police believe the plot extended to planned attacks on......

FROG have done it again, and as if to prove they've got more balls than that stupid annoying mobile-ringtone-toting amphibian, they're putting on not one, not three, not fifty-seven, but two shows on for you this Saturday. The special one-off FROG Saturday Matinee features Babyshambles at Nambucca (596 Holloway Road, nearest tubes Archway or Holloway Road). As per usual for FROG, advance tickets aren't available, which might be a good thing, given Babyshambles' track......