What a busy week! What with the Bank holiday, Cans Festival, Pangea Day, May ’68 celebrations and more, free cultural activities abound across London. So get out of bed, you lazy hungover git, and go sample what’s on in our summery city. Monday: In case you missed it over the weekend, catch the last day of the Cans Festival, a graffiti art exhibition headlined by none other than London’s lovable guerilla stencil artist Banksy.......

Thanks to a lousy US box office reception, Grindhouse – the adored bastard sprog double-feature of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez – was hacked in two when it finally came here. Film nerds agog at the prospect of a three-hour neo-exploitationfest had to cough for Planet Terror and Death Proof separately, and miss out entirely on the geekalicious treat of the fake trailers that accompanied them. O cruel fate/boringly cautious distributors. But at last......

Four weeks till Christmas! Argh. Funds are all focused on present buying and getting through the party season but we still want to go out and about because the heating isn't working properly at home. We can't afford to go and see Gandalf drop his trousers in King Lear but, thankfully, there's lots of cheap and interesting stuff about as usual. Monday: Start the week with an event truly in the spirit of London......

Watch your step this weekend: there is a veritable feast of festivals for Londoners starting from tomorrow until the last person stands partying on Sunday. You're very likely to just trip over one. Cardinal Place Carnival This new shopping and dining area in Victoria is putting itself on the map as a chic and unique place to spend your money and eat well. It is very definitely not a shopping centre and attempts to......

Just one more plug for our first birthday party, which is happening this Thursday at the Offside Bar on City Road, Islington. You should have this engrained into your memory by now, but just in case you haven't: the festivities kick off at 8pm until late, and it's free to get in (just let them know you're there for the Londonist party). We'll have DJs all night as well as images from the London......

As you might have seen already seen, it's our first birthday party next month and as part of the celebrations we're holding a birthday raffle. Basically it's just a way for us to say thank you to our readers by giving them the chance to walk away from the party with armloads of cool stuff. What we didn't realise when we started this was just how much cool stuff we were going to get...truth......

Imagine it. You go to Leicester Square on a friday night, you buy a beer, then you go and see a film with a tub of popcorn and a soft drink and you still have change out of a fiver. A madman's dream, you might think. But no. Long-time Londonist friends the Prince Charles Cinema are hosting a whole month's worth of "Feel-Good Fridays" when - get this - films, cokes, beers, popcorn, and......

Art Fortnight London 2005 promises to involve a little bit of everything in the art world. Their press release boasts that Art Fortnight is “a major event in the art-world timetable….[and] it has organised a comprehensive and sophisticated cultural programme for visitors to the capital, bringing museums, auction houses, and a range of public and private galleries together to form a powerful partnership.” This is already sounding like an event for collectors with a......