Peckham Literary Festival continues and tonight champions the aural tradition with a magical night of tall tales in the area's most eminent emporium. Hosted by our very own authoress and local legend, Sally Butcher, delight in storytelling from local poet Inua and Sally Pomme Clayton - have her sign you a copy of her latest book "Amazons! Women Warriors of the World" too. Admission free from 7pm. Wonder how we'll all fit in amongst the......

Free tonight in every sense of the word. There is still room available at a free story-telling event this evening at Persepolis in Peckham. The deeply and importantly talented Sally Pomme Clayton will be recounting tales of love and romance from her huge repertoire. Audience participation will be encouraged (but not forced). The samovar, we are assured, will be bubbling away, and, most significantly, there will be cakes. Kick off is at 7pm. So if......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan... This week, London tube comedy Three and Out, the erotic thriller that is a Deception and Russell Brand tries to take America in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It’s baffling that as a nation we’re so consistently bad at comedy films. Despite having the home-grown talent, British comedy films, as a general rule, suck. So it is with Three and Out, the Tube suicide comedy......

Rain, rain, go away…flirtatious spring-like temperatures and halcyon moments of direct sunlight belie this week’s forecast for April showers. At least that leaves plenty of time to soak up indoor activities on the cheap before we jet our wellies and get on with the picnic season. Monday: One of our favourite tucked-away speakeasy-esque bars is holding a book club tonight with the theme Dark Heroes. This ain’t no run-of-the-mill Richard & Judy-style book club:......

We like independent traders, specially those that are a bit different or even odd. Small set-ups doing interesting things with one eye on their ethics, the other on their speciality, the other one their customers in the style of a benevolent, entrepreneuring tri-clops. Well, our friends over at Qype are down with them too and have created the Hidden Gem Awards to celebrate them, to culminate in a "glitzy awards ceremony" later this year.......