Dusting off the snow from last year, every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings.. Even seasoned Londoners like learning more about their home city. We're proof - we put our own......

Walking, iPods and London trivia are the holy trinity as far as Londonist is concerned. The three have now reached a state of conjoined perfection in Soundmap. Sites offering guided walks via media players are two a penny. We reviewed a whole troupe of them last year. Some are well written but lack production, others are polished but empty. Soundmap gets everything right. The three walks currently on the site cover Soho, Camden and......

BBC4 love the tube so much that they're making a night of it: Love it or loathe it, the London Underground has been an integral part of life in the capital for over a century. Arena: Underground is the centrepiece of a whole evening of programmes celebrating the subterranean pitfalls and pleasures of travelling on the tube. Robert Elms presents the evening and promises to drive safely. We were going to talk about Annie......

Following on from yesterday’s post, which listed ongoing events, here are the ones to catch this weekend only. Friday Renzo Piano ‘Sermon’: The man behind the Shard will deliver a ‘sermon’ from Southwark Cathedral. £15, booking required. Saturday Sheep Drive: You won’t want to miss this one. ‘60 Herdwick sheep will be driven from Borough Market over the Millennium Bridge to Smithfield Market.’ Lambs to the slaughter? St Bartholomew Fair: After counting sheep, stick......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Chernobyl and the Nuclear Debate, Dana Centre, tonight Should we continue to commission and upgrade our nuclear reactors? It’s one of those fiendish dilemmas where both camps have strong arguments and are convinced of their position (and here’s an example). The situation’s a bit like......

The mystery red line is back. And this time it's tricksier than ever. The new piece of minimalist pavement art picks up where it left off, opposite the Novotel on Euston Road. (Camden Council must be apoplectic, after doing their best to erase the earlier marking.) We followed it along Pentonville Road for quite some way until it took a sharp right down Amwell Street into Finsbury. From there, it runs into Roseberry Avenue......

Stretching from Euston Road to the Thames, the inscrutable red marking appeared a couple of months ago. Londonist was unable to get to the bottom of it, despite walking the entire route. BBC London TV also investigated, but were similarly baffled. Step up to the plate Robert Elms, host of Londonist’s favourite radio show (BBC London 12-3pm). One of his listeners raised the question of the line, and Robert decided to investigate. A series......

We like magazines. We like free things. So it stands to reason that we'd like free magazines. Or so you'd think. Ok, Vice was required reading for a while there, if only for the novelty value, but their conservative hipster schtick gets pretty old pretty fast (plus, if you don't subscribe you're are pressed to find the thing). Young pretender Good for Nothing was a little bit of a disappointment. There was no doubting......

Today's Independent carries a feature on the (in)famous Groucho club. Subtitled 20 years of schmoozing and boozing, the article attempts to capture the allure of the media set's favourite members club, so we get the ubiquitous ligger Keith Allen reminiscing about Moby playing the piano while Mick Jones sang a Clash song and "Coldplay and New Order did the backing vocals"...we're sorry we missed it. The far more amiable Rolan Rivron recounts painful memories......