Or, Dear Martin Creed: I didn’t really want to run in your exhibition anyway Been to see the sprinters at the Tate Britain yet? Whatever are you waiting for? Whilst you’ve been working, eating, sleeping, living – they’ve been running running running: some 310 km each, or 192 miles, or 7-plus marathons (that’s fifteen 86-meter sprints every half hour interval, times four intervals a shift, times three shifts a week, times 20 weeks). And......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, Stallone takes us back to a simpler age in Rambo, Jack Black goes pretend low budget in Be Kind Rewind, Bono gets his ego blasted out in 3D in U2-3D and Norah Jones stops singing to make her acting debut in My Blueberry Nights. What option does a faded Eighties action hero really have other than one last trip to his......

Photograph of memorial outside Heath Ledger's NYC apartment Gothamist learned that actor Heath Ledger was found dead in his SoHo apartment, cause of death unknown so far (but apparently the masseuse who found him called Mary-Kate Olsen before 911).Bostonist considered sending a link about the Super Bowl, but damn! The New Kids are reuniting!Although Sylvester Stallone is a native of New York City, his Rocky character lets many Philadelphians consider him a native son......

Hooray! It's nearly Halloween! Jack-o-lanterns a plenty, scary masks and annoying trick or treaters who get hyped up on way too many e-numbers (and probably a few cans of cider nowadays). Still, there's so much stuff going on this year, you'd be a fool to stay inside hiding under your sofa this 31st October. It just wouldn't be Halloween without the Rocky Horror Show. So Everyman Cinema snapped up this spooky treat. Dress up,......

Writing for Londonist is not without its perks. A perfect example of such perkiness is an unsolicitated email we recently received enquiring where to send some sample products from Hotel Chocolat, a self-described “British-owned phenomenon brazenly committed to real, authentic chocolate.” An eager response resulted in finding a huge box of chocolate arriving in the next day’s post. As doggedly difficult as writing an unbiased review of free chocolate may be, we’re determined to......

This week - Rocky has another bite at the boxing apple (Rocky Balboa) and Cate Blanchet gets shot in the neck and all manner of problems arise (Babel). The general feeling in the press about Rocky Balboa, the sixth Rocky film, has been one of mild embarrassment. What is Sly doing? He's 60 for God's sake! Wasn't Rocky rubbish the first time? However, we here at Londonist do not follow the journalistic tides of......

We have to admit that we've never seen Rocky V. We drew the line after the one where he beat the USSR to a bloody pulp, but that's not to say we don't love Stallone. He has a rough ride for some of his movies, but we give him perhaps a little more rope than we should, for the first Rocky movie (which he wrote) and which still stands up well today. First Blood......

This wins the award for weird London event of the week ...! Sorry, no link - if anyone can shed light on who the mysterious author of this emailed forward is, please speak up now. It has it all: Druids, Blake, poetry, beer, omnisexuality, a-financiality (is that even a word?). BLAKE AND THE DRUIDS This is an invitation for poets who are interested in Blake to participate in an open event in the historic......

From the We Should Have Seen It Coming Department: The budget for the London 2012 Olympics could reach £5bn, more than double the original estimate, after games officials admitted yesterday the final cost is likely to be "significantly higher" than first predicted. The fears were highlighted yesterday after it emerged that the Treasury is advocating a contingency fund to deal with a potential overspend of 60% on construction work. 60%? Great idea - let's......

Even though we are way way past school age, we still get a little melancholy at the close of summer. Fortunately, our friends across the -ist network know that the shenanigans don't need to end just because the big yellow buses are back on the roads. So, grab your sunscreen and your favorite hangover cure, as we take a tour of end of summer fun from -ist cities all over the damn place. SFist......

A very very quick heads up here, because if we're not quick it will totally sell out. Unfortunately it's pretty sold out already, with 3 £100 tickets, and some £350 tickets left. If you're a Rocky Horror Show fan though then this is your dream come true and money is probably no object. Joining together for one special Rocky Horror performance in aid of Amnesty international will be a cast including Gary Amers, Michael Ball,......

At Londonist, we’re no strangers to international espionage. Regular readers, or even irregular ones, might recall that we recently interviewed Rocky, the spying rock from Moscow. And he’s since become a firm, if disturbingly igneous friend. Last week he introduced us to this pair of covert intelligence outlets in Mayfair, practically next door to one another. These high-street Q-branches can be found at 59 and 62 South Audley Street. One’s a spy shop; one’s......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. We're pretty much just gonna get right to it this week...See below for your events, your new releases, and your news of dead and fake writers... Events Around London: The Imagine Children's Literature Festival Continues all this week, with plenty of events with which to get your kiddies hooked early in life. Most events......

In the past few days a row has broken out between Britain and Russia over claims that our secret service used a covert transmitter disguised as a rock (pictured) to pass messages to agents. We here at Londonist are always eager to get to the bottom of these major stories, and it was with that aim in mind that we tracked down the rock in question (codename: Rocky) and conducted the following exclusive interview:......

Hot Stuff is a small anonymous restaurant, so small and anonymous in fact that, on first glance, it hardly seems fair to describe it as a ‘restaurant’. Anyone walking down Wilcox Road (itself a rather nondescript thoroughfare that connects the South Lambeth Road to the Wandsworth Road in Stockwell) would probably dismiss the place as a café, that is if they even noticed it tucked away next to the off-licence and the chip shop.......

A handsome bearded blonde fellow is seen coming up from the underground public toilets near Clapham Junction train station. He crosses the road, bumping into and eyeing up a couple of girls on the way, and enters the Arding and Hobbs department store. He walks around amongst the other shoppers before spotting a pretty girl on the perfume counter. As he flirts with her no one sees him kick his small bag out of......

We've often thought of Drowned In Sound as an indespensable source of culture, but were somewhat surprised to see their story on Radio 2's poll for the best ever stage musical. Over 400 000 people managed to get it totally wrong by coming up with the following list: 1 Les Miserables 2 The Phantom of the Opera 3 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 4 The King and I 5 Sunset Boulevard 6 Evita 7......

To the ranks of Singalonga Sound of Music at the Prince Charles and the regular Rocky Horror and Ghostbusters tributes at the Genesis Cinema in Stepney, we can now add ... "The Dude Abides", the annual Big Lebowski tribute night at the Streatham Megabowl. Although the event has been running since December 2003, it has now reached the attention of the national press - the Guardian, to be precise, which covered last night's shenanigans......