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Belfegore via the Londonist Flickrpool Gather your pocket change and hold your head high. There’s some place to be every day of the week, no matter how skint you think you are. London provides. Friday: Underground Edinburgh weirdos Forest Fringe are setting up shop in …

silvertony45 via the Londonist Flickrpool Gather your pocket change and hold your head high. There’s some place to be every day of the week, no matter how skint you think you are. London provides. Friday: Urban75′s Offline Club in Brixton is about to be Balkanised …

This early 20th century monster bass is a noticeable new fixture of the Horniman’s Music Gallery. Though fully playable down to 29.14 Hz (or BBB♭, the second lowest note on a modern piano) it hasn’t seen much musical use, having served first as the shop …

After hearing all about the reborn, centuries-old Eccentric Club and their traditional Friday the Thirteenth dinner last week in Mayfair, we simply had to ask to come along. We hope to be eccentric too someday, and besides, we can’t resist tempting fate. Everybody lived to …

Throughout March we’re exploring the collections of our Museum of the Month, the Horniman in Forest Hill. Oba Ewuare was the first great ruler of the Empire of Benin, bringing the ancient West African kingdom to supremacy in the 15th century. His rule coincided with …

Simon K via the Londonist Flickrpool Gather your pocket change and hold your head high. There’s some place to be every day of the week, no matter how skint you think you are. London provides. Friday: The new claimant to the East End throne, the …

Throughout March we’re exploring the collections of our Museum of the Month, the Horniman in Forest Hill. Every visitor knows the Horniman mantra, “Please Do Not Touch The Walrus.” But this old fellow doesn’t mind a friendly stroke. He’s clearly been through a lot, so …

Bad luck courtesy of Ronald Hackston via the Londonist Flickrpool. In times of turmoil and uncertainty, superstition holds free reign. But in London, one group has repeatedly risen up amid the finger-crossers and black-cat-dodgers to laugh in the face of Lady Luck. They are the …

Throughout March we’re exploring the collections of our Museum of the Month, the Horniman in Forest Hill. Takejiro Hasegawa made a bundle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries selling exotic crêpe paper storybooks to European travellers in Japan. Always the completist, Frederick John …

Jeremy Hutchinson with his installation Everything Must Go Gather your pocket change and hold your head high. There’s some place to be every day of the week, no matter how skint you think you are. London provides. Friday: Jeremy Hutchinson has filled a Southwark gallery …