Fortunately, there are as yet no news reports of the sky tumbling down. No, it wasn’t a case of a bad couple of pints you got at the pub yesterday evening, nor was it the magnitude of the moment you were sharing with that special someone – the earth literally did move last night. Registering in at a 5.3, according to the British Geological Survey, it is the largest earthquake the UK has experienced......

We're considering giving our notice at Londonist Towers and upping sticks for a new home. Specifically, we want to move into Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicale. The prefabricated bungalow, standing on the front lawn outside Tate Modern, is in London as part of the excellent Prouvé retrospective at the Design Museum. Dating from the 1950s, the Maison was an attempt at creating lightweight, flat-pack housing for colonial authorities that could easily be loaded into a......

You’d be forgiven if upon watching Doris Lessing settle into her armchair and begin reading to the audience at the Southbank Centre Tuesday night, you were reminded of your grandmother tucking you in with a bedtime story. If, that is, your grandmother was the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. And the story she was telling you effectively imagined away your existence. But incongruity seemed the theme for the evening. And so......

Mere days after warning us about 'white flight' and the perils of living in modern London, scribes at the Telegraph have had a volte-face, and declared their love for our flawed yet fantastic city with a special report on the top 10 property hotspots for 2008. First up on the list: well, colour us a shade of surprised blue - the Telegraph's only singled out the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, home to Notting......

We are delighted that even more of you than last year have joined up for our second fantasy football league season and we're particularly thrilled that, thanks to your efforts, the Londonist league is currently ranked a highly creditable 301st out of more than 100,000 entries in our chosen competition. We didn't make very much fuss of the first fantasy league season because, somewhat embarassingly, every time we glanced at the table one of......

OK, so Londonist is taking it easy like the rest of you, putting their feet up, spring-cleaning their keyboards, and eating indecent quantities of chocolate truffles. Just posting gentle fluffy things and useful stuff. But when we popped into Londonist Towers this morning, this story leaped out at us from the screen, begging to make it on to our column. Hey, it won’t do us any harm to keep our ranting facility well-honed, otherwise we’ll......

If AC/DC's manager, George Young, walked up to you in a pub and asked if you wanted to get a job in rock'n'roll, what would your first thoughts be? Would you wonder what he was doing in the UK? Would you wonder why such a successful band producer was touting for business in the pubs of North London? Would you smell a rat? Would you even know what the hell George Young looks like?......

A man who ran a porn film copying factory from his home has been jailed for nine months.Wow, that's everyone we know practically. Hold on:At least 1,000 films were recovered from his vehicle.OK, maybe that's a little much to claim personal use. David Mason of Charlton (not the club) was charged with possessing obscene material, infringing copyright, handling stolen goods and forging a police identification card. Not sure old Dave was too clever getting......

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......

A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Londonist used to be svelte enough (and poor enough) to travel everywhere by bicycle. We could pretend that this was something to do with also keeping healthy but since our route used to take in the whole of Oxford Street, behind ageing Routemasters and black cabs belching their diesel fumes, the contents of our hankies used to tell us our lungs were not......

Following yesterday’s report on declining West End theatre ticket sales, and our exhortation to grab tickets while they’re cheap and plentiful, we’re pleased to see that London has immediately stepped up to the plate. It’s great to see that Londonist has such a positive influence on so many Londoners. Barely hours after posting our report on a rumoured West End slump, it seems that you have wasted no time in buying up tickets for......

Oh bloody hell! Too many good gigs clash with each other this week and it's causing a lot of trauma in the heads of those at Londonist Towers. Tomorrow the hugely underrated new girl rock/pop act Love Bites are on stage in Islington Bar Academy at exactly the same time the delectable Sarah Nixey takes to the stage downstairs at the actual academy supporting ex fellow bandmate, Luke Haines. Then 5 minutes up the......

Lightning flashes around Londonist Towers. A heavy-leather-gauntlet clad fist pounds the boardroom table as our Editor screams: Controversy! I want controversy you two-fingered-typing Pitman-pushing hacks! An invisible grip tightens around our throats. And down here in the Londonist Music Dungeon who are we to argue. If you want controversy you've got it. Album of the week: Coldplay's X&Y. What's that sound? Ah yes, the rumble of a thousand angry fingers on keyboards... Coldplay -......

After a busy week being blown into small pieces by the Todd/Oxbow show; breaking into warm smiles with Teenage Fanclub and being bowled over by newbies The Delta Blues - all of whom have been mentioned in these here pages, dear readers - it's time to look into the rock crystal ball and see what's coming up. So tonight you have Nine Black Alps throwing their album launch party for highly anticipated debut Everything......

Something's changing in Londonist Towers. Something's in the air. Perhaps it's a subtle shift in the midichlorians, perhaps it's that there's a new Turin Brakes album out but we're beginning to stockpile bottles of Tequila and Rizla papers and trying to find the number of 'that bloke we met down the pub' the other day. Look out the window and, yes, it's raining. Of course. Festival Season is upon us. So whilst some will......

It’s alternative transport day here at Londonist Towers. John Caudwell, founder of mobile phone company Phones4U, set the right tone by arriving back in London yesterday after a 2,300-mile cycle ride from Athens in the company of six other businessmen from Stoke-On-Trent and Stafford. Caudwell raised almost £340,000 for the Stafford-based Caudwell Charitable Trust, so perhaps it was suitable that his marathon should stop outside Coutts Bank on The Strand. Caudwell doubtless took advantage of......