"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 with a New Year's Eve party in January, then continues to introduce the characters, a few at a time, as we learn how their lives... [continue]

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 collisions and hurting members of the public in a group called "Yes I've had a POLCOL." All we could find of the group were three... [continue]

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 just repeat: ew!) Though her symptoms may all be traced to drug use, which we hear can have some nasty side effects, the fact that... [continue]

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 is now coming under fire by conservative Anglicans. Though the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York have expressed "great concern" and have launched... [continue]

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 jet engines, we're not sure. If the story sounded suspicious enough already, it gets weirder. Wilmot apparently drew up some fake documents about a "business... [continue]

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 exactly give the circus a fair break. True, it took them 12 hours instead of the typical 2 to move off Twickenham Green, but the... [continue]

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 new book, Strike Back, will also be taken down because of its pro-violence message. With a recent spate of stabbings making headlines, it's no surprise... [continue]

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 constable, one count of disorderly conduct and two counts of threatening the cabin crew on her flight. She could potentially be facing six months in... [continue]

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, Wimbledon and Battersea are just behind Tooting when it comes to risk, and London as a whole is about twice as bad as the rest... [continue]

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 Museum and Cabinet War Rooms called "Make do and mend, the War on Waste," which teaches about clothes rationing during the war, the garden teaches... [continue]

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 Treetop Walkway gives visitors new views of the gardens and west London from a sinewy path set up between oak, sweet chestnut and lime trees.... [continue]

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 be heading out from a 1950's style greasy spoon in south London with a full tank of English breakfast runoff, but will be scrounging from... [continue]

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 female group, which included eight MPs, went on a 26-mile walking tour past sights like the London Eye and Tower Bridge wearing bras in a... [continue]

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 trying to detach their IVs and hobble towards the exits. Falling into the latter category, apparently, is Ealing Hospital. It was rated worst in the... [continue]

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 due to the the Fiver's confusing layout have allowed international travelers into the UK without any immigration or customs control by sending them to domestic... [continue]

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 controlled drug" and an investigation involving some fun video footage that supposedly shows ol' Ames smoking crack. We think Best Week Ever said it best... [continue]

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. Unfortunately, the species is seriously endangered in the wild. Delivered by emergency caesarean (yup, apparently they do that for monkeys), Conchita is being raised by... [continue]

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 by cancer -- specifically much-needed psychological help for patients and their families. They're able to offer help for free through partnerships with local NHS Trusts.... [continue]

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 enough to make anyone but the most seasoned rail traveler feel a bit claustrophobic, if you've got the time to spare, the fortitude to make... [continue]

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 director of European Rail, who has been missing his bag since T5's opening day, March 27, is trying to speed up the process by offering... [continue]