Photo by Phillyist's Matt Johnson, SkyscraperSunset.com, December 19, 2007. Phillyist explored an impending implosion and lived to tell the tale.Gothamist marveled at the city's new NYC-branded condom campaign - especially the use of a Toronto landmark in the advertising. (Also, fun fact: Gothamist turned five years old yesterday.)Tired of the worldwide Scientology protests? Torontoist totally isn't: they covered the big downtown protest the day it happened, and followed up with an examination of all......

Here’s what we’ve learnt out and about this weekend (while you’ve been shivering indoors trying to find your thermals): The RSPB would like us count robins this year We’ve given up counting the number of shootings each weekend. The police should count themselves lucky that they have apparently found Rachel Nickell’s killer at last. Mayoral race entrants: 3 and counting as Paddick joins the fray We’re losing count of the ins and outs of......

Fundraising events, for whatever cause, should always try to be novel and attention grabbing if they're going to reap the quids in. Londonist keeps up with the best of them. Lately, we've had the vet in a dog bowl, the bunny rabbit taxi and bid for a date girl. All excellent ideas to varying degrees. However, we've yet to come across a scheme that beats "Beards for Battersea". Yes, staff and volunteers from Battersea......

Not very much on sale this week, however below are some of the hottest new gigs that are on sale now or will be at 9am on Friday 25th May. Stereophonics have announced a UK Arena tour for November. They'll be playing Wembley Arena on Thursday 15th November, and tickets are sure to sell out quickly, so make sure your there at 9am tomorrow to get yours! The Coral are back with a date at......

It seems its the time for almost every major band to announce their comeback at the moment. Snow Patrol announce a one off date at the new O2 Arena on Thursday 28th June, with tickets costing £25 each. Expect them to go very quickly when they go on sale at 9am on Friday. Got a few hundred sat in the bank not doing anything? Did you miss out on getting Barbara Streisand tickets? Don't worry.......

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......

Maybe because it is Friday afternoon and we swtiched off the hard working part of our brains (the Captain's Log for this particular Londonista has been showing "Offline" since Wednesday lunch time) but we thought we would share this WTF gem with you all as a special end of week treat. Brian Gordon, who has served as Tory councillor for Barnet for nine years, is in trouble for his criminal dress sense. Gordon's misdemeanour......

One month on from our last report on the Trafalgar Square Pigeon Wars, it appears that a new adversary has entered the fray. For quite a while now, Ken’s assault on the flying vermin in the square has included the intimidating presence of a natural predator, namely a Harris hawk, to scare the willies out of them. Coupled with a (much-contested) set of byelaws governing the feeding of pigeons in the area, Ken has......

What is it with London councilors? After the rainbow flag ban and not allowing gay couples to hold their ceremonies on council property, they're now not letting Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square. Well his statue at any rate. What's that you say? Get the Mayor on the case? Before we could even light the Ken-signal atop Londonist HQ he had already jumped into the fray: "There can be no better place than our greatest......

Coldplay - Kokos - Monday 6th June Here's an interesting experiment in delerium. Is it possible for a sleep deprived Londonista to pen a hasty review and make any sense at all? 20 hours ago Noisy Londonist dragged their sorry arse out of bed and headed off to Camden to obtain one of the 601 tickets for sale for the Coldplay Kokos gig so that we could bring you the skinny on the skinnies.......

We reported on the row over 'rainbow flags in Soho earlier this year, and then everything went quiet. It's not surprising really as, for some reason, these issues very rarely get taken up by the mainstream press (for example: today's Standard has London's smallest flat, but hasn't featured the flag story at all in the past week). Now that Ken has joined the fray maybe the papers may sit up and take notice...but we're......