On Monday at the well known, humanist Conway Hall, Dr Philip Nitschke - dubbed Dr Death for attention grabbing headlines - will be launching the Peacefull Pill ehandbook, which will put practical information about voluntary euthanasia online for the first time. He'll then be hosting a workshop for over 50s only, discussing different ways to die when death becomes a preferable option to life, whether terminally ill or totally aged, covering the "exit bag......

Tube drivers are irked by a new film that takes a light-hearted look at one of the more harrowing aspects of working for London Underground: the "person under a train", TfL-speak for a suicide. Members of the Aslef union plan to picket the premier and hand out fliers expressing their displeasure. Three And Out, released next Friday, tells the story of a Tube driver unfortunate enough to experience two "one-unders" in quick succession. Discovering......

Mr. Thin of Ilford is donating his body to science to help weight-related research. Shock story just in: drugs are apparently rife on the streets of Croydon. That won’t do nicely: a police officer is charged with improper use of his credit card. A new botanical art gallery is to open at Kew. The wannabe suicide bomber trial continues with the revelation that the accused left a trail of incriminating bomb bits all over......

The bus stop killer is banged up for life. Yay! Some of the capital’s best music venues are to get the protection of the law. A Surrey town council backs the Heathrow expansion plans. This is really sad: a depressed mother-of-three commits suicide in an A & E cubicle. Whoops! Somerset House seem to have misplaced two paintings worth £82,000. Psst! Wanna job? If you can build stuff, there are reputedly 182,000 jobs available......

Even on its quietest weeks, London is something of a happy haven for bibliophiles such as ourselves, though we may be doing nothing more than perusing one of the city’s many lovely bookshops. This week, however, we’re in a veritable book geek heaven, as the London literary scene goes all glittery, playing host to some major names and fantastic events, leaving us tongue-tied and weak at the knees. Do we gush? Very well then,......

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

Anyone looking at this case for the first time would be dumbfounded. Were the Metropolitan Police Force in breach of health and safety laws when they shot an innocent man seven times in the head? Health and safety laws? Isn't that like prosecuting Genghis Khan for illegal immigration? Terminology aside, the Met were yesterday found guilty of endangering the public when, on 22 July 2005, they misidentified Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes as a......

For such a large venue David Ford's gig at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Saturday was a dreamily intimate affair. Playing songs largely drawn from his second album, Songs for the Road, the balladeer and musician's musician enticed warm applause from the 'incredibly cool' London audience, and, despite the restraining stalls seating arrangement, had those standing at the back singing and swaying along, so much so that it was hard to hear the lyrics......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 20. Kids Today I discovered this conversation on Fridaycities – the London social network site (if you want to join it you might need this code: pfpxc3ogqu5). They were discussing why people think that so many kids are stabbing each other. A few different points were made about this, one being that knife crime and......

If Londonist were really rich we'd be out every night doing LOADS of fun stuff. We'd be going to see all of the cool things at London Design Festival. We'd be drinking beer out of plastic cups and dancing at the Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly gig. But we're not. Instead all our money goes on rubbish stupid bills and... actually not much else. So here's what we're going to do instead. Here's a......

If you're not heading out of the capital to Bestival this weekend, and you're looking for a musical treat, then Saturday night at KOKO could be just what you're looking for. Calvin Harris, Boy Kill Boy, The Mitchell Brothers, Ali Love, Rakes frontman Alan Donohoe and guests will be taking to the stage at one off live event Wasted Youth. The event was set up by journalist Daniel Fulvio after his brother committed suicide......

Everyone remembers the tragedy that was 7/7. In 2005, 4 suicide bombers killed 52 people. A further 800 were injured. Whilst it's still resonant to us, it's even more so for the survivors who today launched legal proceedings after the Home Office refused to hold an independent public enquiry. Lawyers have said that the group of survivors involved want the hearing to 'ensure lessons were learnt in the future'. Oury Clark Solicitors feel the......

Blimey. It's as if the benevolent lords of music, film and free outdoor events put all their goodies into a bag, shook it up and tipped it out over Trafalgar Square. On Thursday night, like on many nights so far in the India Now festival, hundreds of Londoners will be brought together for an Indian summer night. A huge number of cushion and rug and picnic-carrying people are expected to fill the square's space......

13. The Horror Of Berkeley Square Over a century ago, No. 50 Berkeley Square, W1 was London's most famous haunted house. Some of the residents to have lived on the street are William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham (No. 6), Horace Walpole (No. 11) and Lord Clive (No. 45, which is where he committed suicide in 1774). A certain Mr Myers occupied No. 50 for many years; he brought the house and was due......

The last woman ever to be hanged by the British government, Ruth Ellis, is back in the news 52 years after her execution. A petition to have the Ellis case reopened is being supported by Gordon Brown after new evidence possibly exonerating Ellis was brought to light. Author Monica Weller, who was doing research for a book with Ellis’s sister, claims that evidence never heard at the trial may have resulted in a much......

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the......

Two years ago today, four bombs were detonated on London’s public transport system in the morning rush hour, resulting in the deaths of 52 commuters (and four suicide bombers) and injuries to more than 700 others. We all remember that day. We can all tell each other where we were at the time, how close we were to being on one of those trains or that bus, who we knew that actually was caught......

Sitting outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall on a sunny weekend afternoon a month or so ago this Londonista was thrown into anxiety spasms sighting a man apparently about to leap off the roof of Shell Mex House and plunge to his death in the Thames. He stayed unnervingly still balanced up there on the edge with no clothes on. Clearly, I just don’t care enough because I had tickets to a show and put......

The search for Maddy has hit London. Since the Mayor gave under-16s free bus travel, youth crime on buses has risen 55%. We imagine the graph that Ken will be showing us come election time is the one showing how youth fare evasion is down 100%. Having been on a "fact-finding mission" to see Bruce Springsteen last October, two Croydon councillors are going on an all expenses paid trip to see Rod Stewart in......

In Next Week: Next Wednesday the winner of the Rossica Prize, awarded every other year for excellence in literary translation from Russian into English, is announced after readings from the short-listed translations. This year’s submissions include texts ranging from the 19th to the 21st century, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Ismailov's The Railway - our Russian is a bit rusty but хорошее везение к каждому... 23 May at 7pm, £6, The London Review......

Scooch are heading to Helsinki buoyed on by controversy. Every year Eurovision throws up new controversy. Last year, the Finns were nervous about Lordi, with their alleged proto-Satanic lyrics. This year is no exception with 3 entries kicking up storms already. More alleged satanism this year from Switzerland's DJ Bobo and his song Vampires Are Alive, with lyrics like you're here to surrender with your life. The Swiss Protestant Alliance aren't happy with this,......

BBC: Three men have been arrested in connection with the suicide bombings in London on 7 July 2005. Two men, aged 23 and 30, were arrested shortly before 1300 GMT at Manchester Airport when they were due to catch a flight to Pakistan. A third man, aged 26, was arrested at a house in Leeds shortly after 1600 GMT. The men were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of......

This week - The accompanying film to Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, the 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima as experienced by the Japanese Imperial Army. (Letters From Iwo Jima) and Jim Carrey gets obsessed with the number 23 (The Number 23). Today had the potential to be a very sad day at Saturday Cinema Summary. As we sat down to write, the Guardian website would not load, it was thought that here could......

Well this was kind of inevitable: A drama about a Brazilian man killed by police in London is being filmed... Mango Films will focus on events before the death of Jean Charles de Menezes - mistaken for a suicide bomber - and the impact on London's Brazilian community. Hmmm. For every great movie like United 93 there seems to be a complete mess like World Trade Center so it's a worry as to how......

Ever wondered what an alleged bomb factory looks like? Now you know Telling the kids that most suicide bombers are Muslim isn't the best idea ever. As this teacher found out when he was sacked Four London galleries and museums have been shortlisted for an arts award. Oh and the £100,000 that goes with it The Red Cross wants to take on an extra 300 people in preperation for the next 'major incident' Blair......

Today began the trial of six African men accused of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life by bombing London public transport on 21 July, 2005. The six are accused of using flour, hydrogen peroxide and acetone to create bombs in order to carry out "murderous suicide bombings". Nigel Sweeney QC, the prosecutor in the case said: "It was simply the good fortune of the travelling public that......

What was that we just said? Well, that mostly wraps things up for Londonist in '06... Yeah right. What we should have said is that mostly wraps things up for London in '06 because according to ABC we are ho ho ho fucked. Check out that headline: London Braces for Attack; 'Miracle' If There Isn't One Are you braced? We're not braced. We have a nut roast to worry about and a Christmas episode......

According to an article in The Economist published in 2003 London Underground has one of the best safety records of any of the older metro systems in the world, with just one fatal accident for every 300m journeys. Posters every now and again remind us about the tally of accidental deaths that occur each year and of course there is the occasional news story of a death or the improbably mundane driver announcement that......

After all the worry over bird-flu, environmental disaster and nuclear attack it's good to know that the UK's early warning system for just such a catastrophe works well. The threat of a tribute concert to Diana - Princess of Skiing Holidays is still in the planning stages, but thankfully we've been given plenty of time to evacuate. Anyone thinking of staying and attempting to weather the storm will probably want to take note of......

This week - The suicide of TV's original Superman, George Reeves, in 1959 (Hollywoodland) and Tenacious D go on a quest to find a plectrum made from Satan's tooth, (Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny). Usually on Saturday Cinema Summary we summarize and synthesize the reviews of the week's films from three esteemed publications, the Guardian, the Times and the Independent. However, following an article in this week's Guardian media supplement accusing Johnny......