Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

While many of us will be looking forward to a very pleasant lie-in this morning 251 crews will be down by the Thames at the crack of dawn preparing themselves for the 10am start of the 2008 Womens' Head of the River Race (WEHORR). In contrast to most years, though, the very cream of Britain's female rowing talent will not be taking part as they're on their way back from a pre-Olympic training camp......

Chris at Cheese and Biscuits, lists the top ten things he hates about London restaurants. We heartily agree with point #10. Stonch’s Beer Blog takes its readers on an 1881 pub crawl in Clerkenwell. The ladies at Cupcakes Take the Cake interview the owner of Kensington’s Buttercup Cake Shop. An American in London has a ocakbasi overdose in Dalston. Photography by Chris Osburn © 2008......

With voting now closed for the Bloggies 2008 we're sitting on the edge of our un-ergonomic seats awaiting the results (the awards ceremony will be held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, USA on Monday, March 10 with the results posted online shortly afterwards). Who will be crowned Best European Weblog? The suspense is killing us. In the meantime then, how nice to wake up on a foggy Wednesday and......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

If so, you’re probably better poised than we are to win a contest kicking off today. So listen up artists, armchair critics, and wannabe designers: HarperCollins, in collaboration with the Saatchi Gallery, are sponsoring a competition to design a book cover for the forthcoming The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal, Sean Dixon’s debut novel. To all our artsy readers: opportunity knocks (though we’re not making any claims about fame and fortune). The collaboration......

Words: useful little critters, no? Without them we’d be, well, a lot of things, but most certainly out of a job. From puns to poetry, improv to irony, books to blogs, we pretty much revel in all that language has to offer. But no, we will neither confirm nor deny reports that we’ve stayed home on a Friday night for a heated game of Scrabble. What we will confirm, however, is that we greet......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

LAist listed a top ten list of sorts: things they hope not to see in Los Angeles in 2008. (one example, pictured above). Shanghaiist was surprised to learn that "godless," "atheist," and "commie" China is soon going to be the world's largest supplier of Bibles! Torontoist picked some of their favorite photos of 2007. Londonist was relieved to hear the fire at the Royal Marsden hospital didn't harm any of the patients even though......

SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others. Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list. Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island. LAist received a Christmas present in the form of a drunk Santa Claus in a g-string. Bostonist launched......

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......

Yup, they go back tonight. Londonist is ridiculously cheered by this thought. A whole extra hour, magically injected into the weekend (OK, so officially it’s at 2am, but who cares). Londonist actually likes the idea so much that we think that things should go back an hour every weekend. Anyway, it’s Saturday evening, and those sixty minutes are still dangling before you. So what to do with it, eh? What to do? What can you......

Every now and then, a bit of London-centric news drifts around the Londonist newsroom (which doesn't exist but imagine a bunch of emails flying around in lieu of an actual office) and is not paid that much attention. However, there comes a time when something requires a closer look for what it is really saying, such as this report on a poll for the top ten London film locations. Commissioned by cinema advertising company......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

If revolution ever comes to Britain, we reckon it won’t start with the huddled masses of popular socialist imagination; it won’t be workers rising up, casting off their chains and upending the rotten edifice of the UK’s establishment - nothing so old-fashioned. No, revolution will come from one group of downtrodden helots, oppressed daily by their cruel metal gods: the commuters who travel into and out of London. Who’s to say that some day......

Last night Londonist put together another team for You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat in Highgate. By 11pm we had confirmed two things. 1. We are not as smart as we thought we were, and 2. This is the best pub quiz we've ever been to. You can tell it's a bit special from the intro: This was our second outing and while again we managed to finish respectably enough in the top ten,......

We love the chart. Like really, really love it. Childhood Sundays were spent ignoring the outside world and the Eastenders omnibus, instead preferring the feeling of unwrapping a new C90 and trying to speedily erase Mark Goodier's voice. And Monday mornings? Well, that was the time to race to Woolies to see what they had predicted would be no.1 the next weekend. But then, in about 2002, something bad happened. The chart started becoming......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

It's competition crazy at Londonist at the moment. Firstly, congratulations to Rachel Horwood who won our pair of tickets to see Seth Lakeman tomorrow at The Scala. And don't forget you can still enter to win a copy ofThe Meaning of Life by Michael Cox. Plus later on today we'll have an awesome competition for all you clubheads out there. Now, as you may have noticed London has already begun to go Christmas crazy......

It might be grim up north, but it’s also more energy efficient. That’s the verdict from British Gas (well, maybe not the ‘grim up north’ bit), who today announced results of an energy survey of a million UK households. London sucks. And blows. Then sucks some more. Our boroughs represent eight of the top ten least-efficient areas in the UK. Camden, despite some pretty sound green initiatives by its council, is the biggest wastrel......

Mapping, it seems, is the new rock and roll. Tools such as Google Earth are allowing everyday folk to create all manner of interesting mash-ups. The latest one to hit our radar (via New Scientist’s technology blog – thanks guys) is biomapping. Christian Nold of BioMapping.net is creating maps of London and other cities based on emotional responses. Places that elicit a strong emotional response appear as peaks (for example ‘meeting a Greenpeace activist’......

A man has been arrested over the attack on Billy Leeson in Islington last week. Leeson is said to be in a "critical but stable condition.". Lord Coe's not exactly reassuring statement on the current state of the 2012 schedule: "At the moment we are okay." London has some avocets (and if you don't know what an avocet is then you mIght as well skip to the next item). They're at the Wetland Centre......

Best thing we've ever seen in London? Certainly in the top ten.........

With news that Wembley's Take That concert has been moved to Milton Keynes Bowl, 90s pop fans across London must be feeling a bit grumpy. But have no fear, for tickets have today gone on sale for what sound like two of the most unnecessary come-backs going... First up, it's the street version of Take That, London's very own East 17. Clocking up twelve top ten hits including a Xmas number 1 between 1992......

Lucky Soul release their debut single today, the double-A-sided My Brittle Heart/Give Me Love, for your download delectation. We know iTunes has already got the single up for sale (in an embargo-busting exercise, we suspect) but other download services are also carrying the single. Check out the band's official site for the full list. As far as the vinyl version goes (due out next week, 27th March), the online shop we ordered our copy......

Now that the Pop Kid, the Noisy one and the Club Londonista have all had their say, it falls to Ricky to throw in his two cents. For want of a better pseudonym, let's call him RiotRicky. More appropriate job titles on a postcard please, along with your pick of last year's music. Top Ten Singles: Bloc Party - Pioneers Green Day - Holiday The Eels - Hey Man (Now You're Really Living) Weezer......

After a comment yesterday saying Londonist was a bit biased towards being maybe too cool for school and rock focused with their top choices of the year, I say HOLD YOUR HORSES. It’s time for me. I'm sparkly, shiny and hate Coldplay, Keane, and the dreary sleep inducing song writers of 2005. No doubt I will get lots of comments telling me that most of my likes aren't proper music. Bite me. Top Ten......

Ahoy there me hearties, it's day two of the Music Dungeonistas' look back at those musical moments of 2005 that made us go weak of knee, teary of eye and moist of crotch. Today it's Noisy Londonist's (Mark's) turn, and yes, that Coldplay gig is in there! As Pop Kid mentioned yesterday, remember to drop us a line letting us know your recommendations for 2006. Top Twelve Albums (since Ken only chose seven there's three......

Over on Channel Four right now Jon Snow is discussing yet another top ten list - this one is a little more interesting than most as it's been compiled by one of Britain's leading experts in disaster management to assess the major risks facing this country. Just to get you in the mood for 2006 we thought we'd post the list here... so many interesting ways for us all to go: 1. Gulf Stream......

Londonist is as addicted to buying DVDs as everyone else, so it made sense that we should start a regular column to highlight the little laser-etched treats coming your way over the next week or so. Let us know what you think in the comments. Well folks, it's getting to the time of year when the likes of Chegwin, Biggins and Daniels descend begrudgingly upon [enter the name of your hometown here] to switch......