If you're currently on a quiet holiday, suffering from a non-debilitating but house-binding condition or idling away your notice period doing as little work as possible, here's a challenge: you have until Saturday to design a flying machine to launch off a 6m high platform and plunge into the Serpentine for those wacky chaps at E4 who've been given a place in this year's Red Bull Flugtag. As the current UK champ Tim Simpson......

Happy first weekend of September - and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let's take a look at what's been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston's firefighters bent over backwards all week long - first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else - like Tom......

Young Vic Theatre amongst international finalists for Riba architecture prize Climate change activists target Heathrow What would they make of the Red Bull air race, over the Thames? 8 year-old black belt was told he'd never play sport Hazel Blears reopens enquiry into new Thames bridge Image courtesy of ro_nya via the Londonist flickr group.......

Those looking to raise the roof in Croydon will have to look for other places to let the motherfucker burn this summer. Through September, Croydon Council will have a Saturday funbusting patrol cruising its streets in an effort to keep mirth and merriment to a minimum number of decibels. The summer season sees a sharp increase in the number of noise-related complaints, which we believe has something to do with the weather being mostly......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

Red Bull is horrible. Mix it with Vodka and you can taste all of Britain's problems. However, their new London HQ is newsworthy because it has slides instead of stairs. We assume that there must be some stairs somewhere but some slides is better than no slides. The jury is out on whether it's cool and unusual in a good way or cool and unusual in an "it was really cool and unusual for......

We're proud to say that we're wine snobs here at Londonist HQ. Friday afternoon and you'll often find us out on the terrace sipping a pint or two of the red stuff. The trick is to pick the wine with the best label. We find anything with penguins on it tastes nice and goes well with a Red Bull chaser and a slice of Domino's finest. So when we keel over from stuffed cheese......

This Is London have just put up an article claiming that London may see snow as early as this Thursday. "The Met Office said London's daytime temperature will drop below freezing this week," explains the article, "with maximum readings of 2C (36F) expected at the weekend." There's also a warning from the RAC regarding black ice and travel delays, which even extends to the Tube: "The cold snap is also likely to slow public......

Let's face it art supplies are ever so expensive. So why bother with pricey canvasses and all that nonsense when you can just swipe a sick-bag or two from an aeroplane and use that instead? That probably wasn't the exact thinking behind graffiti artist Remi/Rough's new show Unsettled Content at Clerkenwell shop Best, but we like his style anyway. The show, which runs until 19 September, features 40 or 50 graffiti -style pieces created......