Lates are ace. That is a fact. So we were very excited to be invited to participate in the Museum of London Late last night as posers of a round of their pub quiz questions and dead keen quiz boffins. The spacious foyer was jammed full of eager teams on garden chairs, cushions and picnic rugs quaffing plenty from the makeshift bar (or was that just us?) Intervals between rounds allowed time for trips......

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is having an unusual autumn. While most performing arts venues start September with a new programme of plays, workshops and special one-off events, BAC is bolting its main doors and sending all those who dare approach through the back door and around each room in the venue for the mind-blowing Masque of the Red Death. We have had a range of experiences in this extraordinary production – and it just......

Every era has it poets, so if you are still stuck with Wordsworth, Sassoon and Keats as your only frames of reference for just the price of a pint you can gain access to London’s poetry circuit and soak up some modern day verse. A good place to sample spoken word is at London’s very own Poetry Café in Covent Garden where Poetry Unplugged takes over the café’s tiny basement every Tuesday evening. This......

The sun is shining, the music is high... why walk when you can dance? There are loads and loads of events taking place between today and the last night of the Big Dance Festival on Sunday, so many that we can't list them all here. Most events are free and range from taster classes in ceroc, lindy hop and tango to dance displays at places like the Trocadero to big shows at Sadlers Wells......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It seems to us that the only literary reading series that ultimately survive are the ones that encourage a fair amount of alcohol consumption. With that in mind, the new series Through a Glass Darkly (this Thursday, also pictured to the right) has done one better by hosting a reading in a pub, on......

It's the first Friday of the the month which means Tate Britain is hosting another Late at Tate event. From 7.30pm tonight, if you're not in the pub or avoiding a club, there'll be free music and stuff to see and enjoy. The musical part of the evening is called Black Drum and features Arthur Brick, a three piece who sing songs about Bermondsey war veterans, night buses to Catford, 1950's homosexuals and religious......