The Cobra London Film Festival ticket giveaway closes this evening at 5pm so it's your last chance to enter the competition. On offer is a pair of red carpet tickets for the Mayor of London Gala Premiere of Genova starring Mr Darcy Colin Firth. Click here to enter.......

Colin Firth in Genova A couple of days ago, we told you how to get along to the screenings at the forthcoming London Film Festival. However, if you're too glamorous or lazy to hang around for returns to red carpet events, here's a giveaway you have to enter. Cobra is the official beer of the festival and they've generously given us a pair of tickets to the sold out Mayor of London Gala, Genova to......

Ladies and Gents, set your status to "moist anticipation," cultivate those stomach-fluttery butterflies, and start thinking of some health hiccups you can turn into sickies; there's seven, just SEVEN days to go until the amazing Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival kicks off! Unlike Cannes, and Venice, and those other high profile film festivals you hear about, the beauty of the London Film Festival is that it's a public film festival. So you, yes,......

Even with the spectre of hazardous drinking looming over us, pubs are still our favourite places to be, so we were delighted to be invited along to the Fancyapint.com London pub awards 2007. Fancyapint has awards in 2 categories. The reviewers' awards are based on their dedicated team's experiences over the year and a bewilderingly scientific system of tick boxes. The visitor awards are based on a not wholly scientific but ingenious manipulation of......

Almost time for the London Film Festival again! This year the event is opened by David Cronenberg's London-set Eastern Promises - Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen following up A History of Violence with this violent tale of Russian organised crime, penned by Steve Dirty Pretty Things Knight. One to watch for sure. Closing the festival is the new Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited. In between there are some 180+ feature films and 133 shorts,......

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market......

We don't know about where you are, but it seems like spring can't decide whether or not to happen. Some days are warm, some days are cold, and sometimes you aren't sure which. Baseball may have started up (and soccer/football winding down) but it still seems cold out there. Unless it's not. Anyways, onto the -ists. Austinist happily anticipated fall's Austin City Limits, even though they're not fully recovered from South By Southwest. In......

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness......

A protest will take place outside the Danish embassy this weekend, over the controversial cartoons printed in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The London borough with more speed cameras than any other is....(drumroll)...Croydon. The jury is out in the trial of Former Bay City Rollers singer Les McKeown, who's charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine. Kate Moss has flown out of the UK, possibly never to return. Apparently she's thinking of buying a mansion in Malibu. Well......

It's the 30th year for the Laurence Olivier Awards, the biggest and arguably the most coveted item of recognition and achievement for London theatre. Presented this year by Richard "I don't believe it!" Wilson, the gala night on 26th February will mean the gathering of a thousand luvvies all congratulating one another in loud, extremely well pronounced, carefully projected tones. It's the annual Oscars for the theatre, but with far less of the red......

If you see a few dodgy looking blokes in macs hanging around Leicester Square tonight, don't worry too much, they're more than likely waiting for the Dukes of Hazzard premiere to begin. Yes people, Jessica Simpson is in town. Of course Johnny Knoxville and Sean William Scott will be there too but we're guessing that the 'nipple slip' brigade will be out in force for Jess. Simpson, of course, plays Daisy Duke in the......

Shrill deranged songstress Mariah Carey arrived in London this weekend but promptly ran into problems as she was unable to enter the Kensington branch of plush Italian hotel chain Baglionis as they had not met her specific entry criteria, namely a red carpet lined with white candles. Luckily, as you would expect from a £2000 a night hotel they managed to quickly rectify the situation while Mariah was driven around the block, probably using......