A beautiful mid-summer week in London lies ahead, and if you follow Londonist's instructions to the letter, you'll get some free champagne, flowers, live music, and, yeah, even some funfair rides out of it. You and your rolypoly pocketbook can thank us later. Monday: Two films for the price o' one: now that's a deal London On The Cheap can get right behind, popcorn in tow. Rising director Aaron Katz is showing his two......

Ahh, art or money? It's something we ponder daily here at Londonist. (Can't we have both?) The big question is also being asked over at the Old Vic by none other than Kevin Spacey and his mate Jeff Goldblum in Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. We're also pondering how to get our hands on tickets for this sure-to-sell-out show. Previews run til Saturday; the show's booking until April. Also Opening Photography fans should pop along to the......

Right, so you're either saving up to blow the last of the December salary on one helluva NYE out or you're just stony broke after Christmas/sales shopping. Either way, unless you're happy to simply hibernate for the week here are some ideas for New Year jollity on a budget. New Year's Eve: Follow our top tips and gird your loins for the massive fireworks display along the Thames, focusing on the London Eye and......

If you're in the Bankside area this weekend - specifically at 2:45pm on Saturday, 6 January – well then, prepare to be freaked right out. The drama troupe Lions Part will be presenting their annual Twelfth Night performance, which features games, song, fabulous costumes, storytelling and all manner of pagan ruckus. Londonist will certainly be there, because if there's one thing we love more than pagan Christmas festivities, it's psychedelic pagan Christmas festivities. Just......

A walk from Stratford to the South Bank doesn’t sound particularly alluring. What, after all, is the Jubilee Line for? But, as you’ve probably guessed from the hilarious title of this post, we’re talking about Stratford-Upon-Avon, not Stratford-Upon-Olympics. Yup, some chap’s come up with the idea of creating a special walking route from the Bard’s home town all the way to the Globe. Measure for Measure, that’s about 146 miles, passing through many charming......

Julius Caesar has never been Londonist's favourite slice of Shakespeare, but a mouth watering preview of Deborah Warner's new production in yesterday's Observer grabbed our attention. First off, the onstage action makes a nice foil for the dull political shenanigans going on in the real world - although Warner herself believes the play to be the perfect tool to help us analyse Westminster and beyond: "This is a moment to look at issues of......