Perhaps hoping that it'll take anti-war protesters (not to mention miscreat millionaires) a while to track them down, US Ambassador Robert Tuttle has announced the American Embassy will depart its Grosvenor Square office for pastures new. Not to Kensington Palace, as was the plan five years ago (a move the Royal Family reportedly nixed), nor to any of the suggestions that we made last year, nor even to the old Post Office that Google......

Who would have thought that fish embryos could be so hypnotic? Under the microscope, they tumble and turn like marbles, executing the occasional piscine wriggle at camera. These dainty roe are zebrafish, whose unusual transparency is a boon for medical research. Scientists intensely breed the fish and tweak their genes in pursuit of knowledge about disease. Artist Kathleen Rogers wants us to think about this manipulation of life, and certainly generates a meditative atmosphere......

Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie’s local, The Punchbowl in Mayfair, is to be investigated following allegations of price hiking for tourists. The showbiz pair famously liked the gaff so much they bought (into) it. Now ripping off tourists is clearly wrong: bad for the pub and bad for London. The price of a pint is so high now that inflating it further is only adding insult to injury. But the naughty, nasty mini-us inside Londonist is......

It's enough to make Hanwell residents fume. While folk in the lowly Ealing burg are still battling to hang on to their antique lampposts, over in Savile Row a makeover this autumn will see Victorian gas lamps make a reappearance. Before any out-of-work lamplighters prick up their ears and reach for their wicks, we should point out that the lamps actually date from the Fifties, and are electric ones designed originally for Parliament Square......

Tucked away behind the Royal Academy near Green Park is Cork Street. A street of galleries. A street of expensive, established galleries. Well, it is technically Mayfair, you know. If you imagine the opposite end of the contemporary art scene from a group show in a Peckham squat, then you'll get the picture. What drew us here this time, was an exhibition of experimental photography by Rob Carter, put on by the Forster Gallery......

Londonist doesn’t get the property-with-a-history thing. OK, we sure wouldn’t have wanted to live at 39, Hilldrop Crescent, and Apsley House might have a certain cachet were it to appear on the market. But buying a property because x, y, or z once picked flowers/their nose/best selling records there just seems daft to us. Not to the current owner of a 2-bed top floor flat in Mayfair: the Beatles once kipped there for a couple......

Thanks to a concerned reader, we were alerted today to a potential tragedy in the making. It seems that the folks over in Monopoly Land are holding an online vote to choose the world’s top twenty cities (in addition to two wild cards) for its Here & Now: World Edition version of the classic game. Winners will be awarded prime real estate slots in the world edition board game – leading us to wonder......