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The RMT have called off tomorrow’s planned 24 hour strike, which would have affected all the old Metronet lines (in other words, everything bar the Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee lines). After walking out on the 5th over a dispute about working rosters, Bob Crow said …

Poetry, says Tim Key, is a bit like sex. In both cases, you never want to hear yourself described as “deliberately bad”. But of course the poetry in Slutcracker, Key’s Edinburgh winning show, is not just bad, it’s meta-bad, as he breaks off mid-line to …

Looking at the week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Book Slam comes East to Shoreditch Town Hall, for the Red Bull Music Academy Edition. Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Tempest and Doc Brown are just a few of those appearing (7pm, £6 / £8). Snobbery begone! …

Following the success of Hither Green Cinema‘s first event back in October, it’s got funding and is back as a regular fixture. While waiting their permanent home at the new St Swithun’s Theatre, there’ll be a programme of films celebrating railways and trains at – …

Image by James.D. from the Londonist Flickr pool No, no no no. We’ve only just stopped having flashbacks from January’s snow and there’s more on the way? The Met Office have issued warnings of heavy snow for London and the South East for tomorrow and …

Michael Cera in Youth in Revolt / image courtesy of Momentum Pictures Our weekly round-up of film reviews Michael Cera gets a dual role in Youth in Revolt, as the typical nerd we know so well and a mean, criminal, French alter-ego, created to win …

Fear not, architecture fans – this is more about stopping wannabe Begbies than the beautiful London Bridge building. Two new pint glass designs have been unveiled at the London Design Council in a bid to stop nutters attacking people with pointy shards. One is coated …

This sounds like a lose-lose situation all round: because Battersea Dogs and Cats Home has been full, some stray pooches in Lambeth have been kept in a council depot in Herne Hill, where their howling is keeping the neighbours awake. Local resident Shelley Chapman claims …

Looking at the week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Poet Ruth Padel is about to release her debut novel, Where the Serpent Lives. See her in conversation about her work with Eva Hoffman at the British Library (6.30pm, £6 / £4). At Foyles in Charing …

Boris is chairing London’s bit of the 2018 World Cup bid A London man has achieved (?) the lowest ever score on Mastermind: a ‘grand’ total of 5 The missing Southall schoolboy is missing no longer The Royal Court is setting up shop at the …