Northwick Park Hospital: not the place to have babies. Now they’re trying to find out why. Data: let’s just ban the stuff and stop getting all stressy about it. Now it transpires that no less than 13 London councils have lost sensitive material in the last year. The fearful passage of death-mark’d love has taken its course: Mark Speight has been found hanged. This was a real tragedy. Test driving a car has a......

Everybody should learn at least one dance in their lifetime, and for maximum impact it has got to be Salsa. Releasing your inner Cuban in downtown London is easier than you think but to the Londonist’s mind there is no better place to pick up this fiery quick-step than at the bi-weekly classes held at Pineapple Dance Studios in Covent Garden. The class is taught by Sai Lee, Salsa and UKA British Mambo Champion,......

Every era has it poets, so if you are still stuck with Wordsworth, Sassoon and Keats as your only frames of reference for just the price of a pint you can gain access to London’s poetry circuit and soak up some modern day verse. A good place to sample spoken word is at London’s very own Poetry Café in Covent Garden where Poetry Unplugged takes over the café’s tiny basement every Tuesday evening. This......

Bend it like Bikram... How does 90 minutes of yoga in a room heated to 40 degrees sound? If you haven’t already shuddered in horror then welcome to Bikram Yoga, an extreme form of yoga that leaves practioners elated (if not a little dehydrated). We at Londonist decided to check out this invigorating craze and so armed with towels and water bottles we set our yoga mats down at Old Streets’ Bikram Yoga Centre......