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After a week off spent organising our copious Laserdisc collection, the Repertory Film Round-up is back to sift through the silver screen classics that London offers the discerning cineaste. Thursday: Hot-foot it to Highgate tonight for the You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat film quiz, …

It seemed the debate over Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth was settled: after Boris’ election pledge to install a statue of Sir Keith Park was shot down, the space would continue to home modern art. But perhaps not: Prospect magazine reckons Westminster council plans to erect …

Despite being branded a “a white elephant” by former chief scientific adviser Sir David King, plans for the third Heathrow runway steam ahead. With efforts to raise their case proving less than effective, protesters are now getting tough. Like a bunch of latter-day Chuck Norris …

As you might expect, excavation work at the 2012 Games site in Stratford is yielding all manner of buried treasures: a cobbled street, graves of early eastenders (though Reg Cox has yet to be disinterred), even radioactive doohickies. Here’s the latest haul: a collection of …

If you’re bothered, of a dull evening, by a drunk, leering man giggling and gurning at you with a suspicious (if meagre) bulge protruding from his pocket region, you’d be forgiven for force-feeding him a knuckle sandwich and sending him on his way. Yet this …

Depending on which side of Prince Charles you stand, it’s either to our shame or credit that London has yet to welcome a Frank Gehry building. No longer: the architect’s first project here, this year’s Serpentine pavilion, opened last week. Gehry brings a wealth of …

Like a nuclear family loading up the Datsun at an out-of-town supermarket, the Book Grocer is filling most of its basket on just a single day this week. Thursday’s the one to look out for, with a wealth of treats helping you to reach that …

Those Traf Square fountains, eh! Cor, aren’t they fab. Tourists can’t get enough of ‘em, and they’re a convenient birdbath for the square’s remaining pigeons plus a natural magnet for mischief-making teens with bottles of soap powder. Still, they could perhaps be spruced up a …

For the second time in a fortnight, a major fault has crippled the Oyster system. A “technical problem” is currently afflicting Pay As You Go cards on the Tube, say TfL, who have wisely decided to leave all Underground station barriers open until the problem …

The excellent mini-season of films at Rivington Place, which has accompanied the gallery’s Oscar Muñoz retrospective (pictured), concludes tonight with the dreamlike Japanese fable Woman In The Dunes. The kind of flick you might have expected had Beckett or Sartre ever picked up a Bolex, …