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We don’t like to start the week off with a horrifying headline like this. Another tragic teen stabbing story (time to step up those new gory anti-knife ads?) marks this year’s 16th violent teen death in the city. We don’t have much information, but a …

It’s easy to get the impression that all things Chinese are in the ascendant in London this year, with both the Mayor and the PRC’s own Cultural Office sponsoring major events and exhibitions at almost every venue in the city. In this same year, however, …

Ugh, splitting the bill. At worst it’s like showing your parents around the touristy bits of town — expensive, unfun, leaving everyone involved with the feeling that they’ve been shafted. Inevitably someone skips the starter; someone else orders two sides; somebody’s off the sauce; puddings …

Vyner Street is like a scruffy version of Cork Street set in the tubeless expanse of Hackney. Well, replace the expensive established artists, with the up and coming avant guard and replace the suited rich art lovers at the private views, with eccentrics, artists, and …

In our ongoing attempt to catalogue the best of things in London, it would be remiss of us not to mention the Urban75 shindigs down in Brixton. They’ve been running for a fair while now. In fact much longer than we’ve spent wondering where the …

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a … This was our thought upon reading the news that a teenage member of Scientology-protesting group Anonymous, who goes by the name EpicNoseGuy on the Enturbulation …

There has been a serious traffic accident in central South East London, near the London Dungeon, not far from City Hall. A double decker bus crashed into a tree, killing one woman and injuring a further 19 people. The accident happened on the corner of …

The subject of the Museum in Docklands’ latest exhibition should require no introduction from Londonist. Since he first struck in 1888, Jack the Ripper entered into London folklore as much as Dick Whittington, Pearly Kings and Queens or the ‘Don’t be a sinner, be a …

Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917 Tate © Succession Marcel Duchamp/ Paris and DACS, London 2007 This exhibition highlights the work of three justifiably important 20th century artists: Picabia, Man Ray and Duchamp. Let us stop you right there. The show hasn’t gone dada over a urinal. …

Here’s an invitation you don’t get everyday: the chance to visit the Grant Museum of Zoology and enjoy a free glass of wine amongst the remains of extinct animals such as the dodo, the quagga (a cute zebra/donkey thing) and the Tasmanian tiger during a …