Those Peckhamites have got their rose-tinted spectacles on again. This Saturday and Sunday sees the 4th (or 5th - really ought to research things more thoroughly) annual Flavas of Peckham Festival in Peckham Town Square. Which is of course a food festival. Now Londonist is rather partial to food, so this one may be worth checking out. We're not talking gourmet and celeb chef here - the festival is all about celebrating the area's multi-flava-ed......

The Olympic Park has received a lot of attention lately, unveiling its flagship stadium, promising to start work on it early and suffering fiery blazes which fortuitously destroyed a warehouse due for demolition. This Saturday though, an audaciously different kind of attention will be focused on the Stratford site: imagining the Olympics weren't happening. WE SELL BOXES WE BUY GOLD is an artistic collaboration exploring what the Olympic site means to people and endeavouring......

Well it’s awfully good of that nice Mr. Livingstone to organise stuff in Trafalgar Square, and we are all too sorry that we didn’t have time to go to his Diwali day on Sunday 28th October. But Londonist would remind you that Diwali isn’t actually until the 9th of November, and there’s loads more going on by way of celebration. And so that we can live up to our reputation as the world’s 93rd most......

Two very different music events are scheduled for this weekend and they are each so unique and original we had to put them back to back just to revel in the extreme oddness of each. We'll go with the bloody, messy, macabre event first. Skip ahead if you don't like chainsaw slasher horror flicks or bands whose names translate as "Dead Port"... St Louisiana duo Puerto Muerto play "uniquely smarmy and intelligent punk folk"......

I’d like to focus on one topic this week. This Saturday 29th July at The Underworld, Camden, ten bands will come together to play at the Freedom Festival, an all day event organised by the front-man of independent alternative punk/metal band, Djevara. Bass was the instigator behind the well known Scumfest events of 2002/03 which developed from Kerrang!’s “Scumscene” and got coverage from the magazine, also becoming a major source of inspiration for musicians and......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Highlights this week include two appearance by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell (pictured), along with one by Lionel Shriver, and a new book from Elmore Leonard... Events Around London: Tonight, David Mitchell (pictured), author of Booker nominated Cloud Atlas, will be signing copies of his new novel, Black Swan Green. 12:30pm. Waterstone's, 82 Gower......

Time once again to take a gander at a couple of shows coming up over the next seven days that have shone out from within the Londonist Music inbox. Most of the action this week is taking place in sold out venues across the capital with names such as James Blunt and The Magic Numbers re-invigorating the (qu)easy listening genre, whilst Kanye West continues to be the biggest name in hip hop since the......

This Saturday, if you're lucky enough to have a ticket, you can watch our national rugby team take on a splendid All Blacks outfit at Twickenham. You can guarantee that it will be a fantastic spectacle, with the reigning world champions taking on the team currently rated number one, in what is possibly the greatest rugby stadium on the planet. England versus New Zealand, the tradition, the fervour, the grandeur. Perfect. Long may it......

It is either your idea of hell or you'll already have put on your leotard in anticipation. This Saturday Battersea Park will be hosting the world's first Tree-Athlon (nice). The root (sorry) of the idea is to raise 1/2 million quid in order to plant 50,000 trees in some of the world's bleakest urban spaces. In the spirit of the traditional triathlon there will be three events - a 5km run, making an urban......

The BIG draw for this year's FrightFest is unsurprisingly George Romero's Land of The Dead. It's the kind of event film that horror fans have been waiting a long time for and unfortunately UK fans have had to wait even longer as the movie opened in the States back in June. Well worth the delay though... Romero has always been played a bad hand by the people holding the purse strings on his movies......