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It's been a play, now there's a reading: The Doorbells of Florence will be presented by the author at Stanfords Travel bookshop tonight, 7.30pm and we've got a special offer for Londonist readers. Stanfords is one of the most delightful specialist bookshops in London and it's £5.00 to non-Londonist... continue reading on Londonist

Last week in numbers on Londonist... 15,000 items in the Met Collection (-) 805 Calories in taramasalata on The Real Greek menu (÷) 166 door number of Eastside Books as featured in Biblio-text (+) 14.98 GBP for a pair of pre-stained underpants (X) 419 category for new London-themed Facebook... continue reading on Londonist

Doors to manual... ...and the steel door of the shipping container in Toynbee Studios' courtyard rolled back. Ten bemused diners were ushered in to the cramped but admirably authentic aeroplane interior of the Plane Food Café. The smell of the super-heated plastic containers was the same as the food they... continue reading on Londonist

'Double jeopardy' weather image by SallyB2 Two Degrees is a short season of live art, installation, activity and activism all rolled into one glorious blur of getting hot under the collar about climate change. Never an organisation to do things in straightforward or 'normal' way, Artsadmin have gathered artists,... continue reading on Londonist

Image by lindseymclarke Exhibition Road is fast shaping up as the nexus of disgruntlement in London: next to join the fray about the area's changes are the French who are unhappy about the large number of buses that are going to be re-routed past key French institutions in Kensington.... continue reading on Londonist

Image by lindseymclarke 25 year-old Pawel Modzelewski died on the 36 bus in January this year; his body was undisturbed for at least six hours as he lay in the garage overnight then set off on the next morning's journey. While there's an On the Buses style set of... continue reading on Londonist

Image author's own So, there's been a Tube strike. The inconvenience, the hours on (or waiting for) buses, the roads bloated by sudden influxes of cars, indignant Twitter updates by those forced to walk and Tweet at the same time has led some to punch Bob Crow as hard... continue reading on Londonist

Londonist is On the Fringe this evening, 6.30pm on Resonance 104.4FM. Tune in or listen online as we discuss the latest fringe theatre offerings and what is happening in off-West End performing arts. And if this gem of an audio arts programme makes you want more, visit the site... continue reading on Londonist

We went, we played, we climbed on things, we fell off things, we crawled into a wooden tunnel and were ambushed by an incoming flock of shrieking 7-year olds and we filmed it all. BodySpaceMotionThings at Tate Modern was a brilliant Bank Holiday weekend installation, courtesy of the UBS Openings... continue reading on Londonist

Image author's own Two canaries in a large cage playing Chinese checkers, in a council flat, Bethnal Green, East London Stanley: She's still under house arrest. Marcus: Aung San Suu Kyi? Stanley: No, I'm talking about Mimi next door. She's still waiting for a licence from Whitehall to be... continue reading on Londonist

A man goes to Florence. He takes pictures of the city with his new camera. Getting stuck for subjects, he takes photos of doorbells. Eventually he writes short stories to accompany each photo. Those stories and photos are turned into a book. That book is turned into a play.... continue reading on Londonist

Image from And the Line Goes Dead, part of Burst Having mentioned it in our excellent Arts Ahead guide to all that is happening in the week ahead, we thought a little deeper digging into the Burst festival at BAC was worthwhile. And we were right; look what we... continue reading on Londonist

Boris Johnson wants Scotland Yard's museum of crime artefacts to be opened to the public, spreading the previously limited joy of grisly things to anyone who feels they have outgrown the CGI horrors of CSI. The unofficially named 'Black Museum' was originally started for instructional purposes in 1869, with... continue reading on Londonist

London Maori group Ngati Ranana led the welcome party at the opening ceremony for Origins: Festival of First Nations, held at the Scoop by Tower Bridge on the chilly Bank Holiday Monday. A large crowd sat in light drizzle to see the performers welcoming all the First Nations people... continue reading on Londonist

It's rather gloomy and grey today as if we had only dreamed of the sunshine and coat-less past Sunday. Was that our summer? Is it over? We hope not but just in case, we made a little film of a very summery event last weekend, as a reminder of... continue reading on Londonist

Almighty Voice, part of Origins - Festival of First Nations Intercultural multi-media theatre company Border Crossings has organised Origins - Festival of First Nations, a programme of First Nations Creative Art. First Nations is the term the participating artists have chosen for themselves, as the peoples indigenous to countries... continue reading on Londonist

Did you walk to work today? Are you walking home tonight? Would you walk part of the way to and from work this week? If you can't do it this week, would you incorporate more walking into your average day in the future? Have you got a camera with... continue reading on Londonist

SohoStreets uses the same format as Soho Theatre's first promenade street theatre Moonwalking in Chinatown, taking audiences back in time rather than in and around present-day Chinatown lives. We were divided into Goths, Punks, Ravers or Hippies for our walk through the churning streets of mid-evening Soho - we were... continue reading on Londonist

Walking Works is the campaign to get people walking to and from work, for the obvious benefits of avoiding the commute and getting fit, but also the less tangible benefits such as never being at the mercy of a bus that decides to terminate a few stops early, having... continue reading on Londonist

It's time to consider your first outdoor ice cream (if you haven't already had one). Enjoy Fleet: Ice Cream Orchestra with your whippy cone this Sunday, courtesy of artists Chris Yates and Kelvin Pawsey. Six vans will play a specially composed piece of music, written for the ice cream... continue reading on Londonist