Francine Kizner

"Months on End," playing at the Tre Stage on La Brea at Sunset this is a treat -- a great indie theater find with a strong script and a great cast. We attended the show last Friday where we watched 12 months of happiness and heartache unfold. The play starts... continue reading on LAist

Oh, Facebook. Something about being on the site just calls for people to post inappropriate photos and divulge private information that should probably be left off the interwebs. Even the police aren't immune to the lures of the Facebook Spill-Your-Guts Demon -- 18 officers were recently reprimanded for bragging about... continue reading on Londonist

Well, it seems our fave ne'er-do-well Londoner may have a case of tuberculosis. She was taken to the London Clinic on Monday after fainting at home and is said to be suffering from a chest infection, dramatic weight loss and lack of appetite. She's also coughing up blood (let us... continue reading on Londonist

The Anglicans are all in a tizzy this week because of two gay priests who had a marriage-style ceremony at the church of St Bartholomew the Great on May 31. The couple were already civil partners and had hundreds of guests at the event to celebrate their union, which... continue reading on Londonist

When it comes to cons, John Wilmot, a City barrister, didn't just go big, he went jumbo. He attempted to get £17.5 million in VAT repayments by claiming he bought and sold four Boeing 747 engines for £100 million. What a barrister would be doing with a set of jumbo... continue reading on Londonist

This year, when Zippos Circus came to Richmond -- its 20th annual stop -- it was forced to make a rather unseemly exit that apparently "caused traffic chaos and left behind a trail of destruction" that left Richmond "a muddy disgrace." Now that reporting, while true in many ways, doesn't... continue reading on Londonist

Another advert, another controversy, it seems. Just a couple of weeks ago a Grand Theft Auto IV ad was removed from Streatham because its gun-toting avatar was deemed insensitive in an area that had recently seen two gun-related murders. Now an ad in Crystal Palace train station for Chris Ryan's... continue reading on Londonist

Everyone's favourite and fabulous phone-throwing supermodel, Naomi Campbell, was "bitterly disappointed" to lean that she'll be called to court June 20 and charged with assaulting two police officers in T5. The supermodel learned of her charges his morning at the Heathrow police station, which include three counts of assaulting a... continue reading on Londonist

Tooting has just been bestowed with a rather dubious title -- the UK's worst place for ID fraud. It's not just a little more likely that your identity, credit and good name will be stolen from SW17, it's a whole five times more likely than the UK average. West Ewell,... continue reading on Londonist

St. James Park has a new summer attraction: Next to the already excellent swans, pelicans, geese and flower gardens, there's a new patch of green -- an allotment garden in the style of those planted during the Second World War. Planted in conjunction with an exhibit at The Churchill... continue reading on Londonist

Take the tree-climbing kid in you to Kew Gardens for a brand new treat -- a treetop walkway that lets you explore the canopy 18 metres above ground. Clearly not for the height-averse -- they can explore the new underground Rhizotron, which shows off root systems -- the Xtrata... continue reading on Londonist

On the self-titled first "fat-finding" mission across Europe, Londoner Andy Pag will lead a team of 30 cars -- powered by chip fat and other cooking oils -- to Greece. We can only think he chose the destination for the grease-Greece puns. To add an extra element of challenge, they'll... continue reading on Londonist

If you noticed something funny around town on Saturday night, namely about 15,000 people wearing bras in place of tops or over tops, and didn't know what was going on -- mystery solved! The 11th annual Playtex MoonWalk breast cancer event was taking place. Starting from Hyde Park, the mostly... continue reading on Londonist

Going to hospital is rarely fun -- the docs are never as cute as on Grey's Anatomy, they poke and prod you in uncomfortable ways, and the visit always takes longer than planned. And while some hospitals try their best to make you as comfortable as possible, others leave patients... continue reading on Londonist

Of all the problems Heathrow's colicky baby T5 has been having in its first few months, we've mostly heard about masses of lost baggage and inconveniently cancelled flights. But now there's a whole new reason to be alarmed, or at least freshly disappointed, at the terminal's inefficiency -- security errors... continue reading on Londonist

London collectively yawned as Amy Winehouse was arrested then released on bail last night in her duel with Pete Doherty to become London's most-wanted, drug-addled musician. To her credit, she did go to an east London police station voluntarily. She was called in based on her "alleged possession of a... continue reading on Londonist

For those of you (like us) who just can't get enough of cute, cuddly little things, even if they look a bit like aliens, we introduce you to Conchita, a three-week-old white-naped mangabey monkey. This teeny-tiny, big-eyed, big-eared, pink-tongued furball is only the second mangabey ever born in the UK.... continue reading on Londonist

London cancer patients and their families have one more resource at the ready to help them cope -- the Maggie's cancer care centre at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith. Designed to fill in where traditional hospitals fall short, the Maggie's centre will give free information and support to those affected... continue reading on Londonist

Rail travel has lost some of its romantic appeal over the years, but there's a new train route on its way that's setting rail enthusiasts' hearts aflutter -- a 23-day, 7,000-mile trek that'll connect London to Bangladesh. Though the prospect of spending 23 days in a little train compartment is... continue reading on Londonist

Not that this is any surprise to those following the T5 bungle, but plenty of passengers still don't have their bags back, despite all the sorting, dividing, shipping to Milan and magical voodoo that BA has been up to over the past two weeks. Now one passenger, Michael Birtles, managing... continue reading on Londonist