Coming up is the UBS Openings: The Long Weekend, which we loved last year and this year there is an even more impressive programme of film, music, performance and visual art. Get out your diaries, set your watch, take a deep breath and get a bit excited... Friday 25 May To kick off the Long Weekend, French artist Mathieu Briand will create a massive sound installation in the Turbine Hall; basically, a huge recording......

So welcome to the second instalment of our new column on the techy aspects of London life. This time, we’re plugging in our ipods and enjoying a new way of exploring the capital: online audioguides. The idea of being guided round an area of interest – usually a museum – by an audio track is, of course, nothing new. We’ve all used those bulky museum players with big red buttons, which the Kids from......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com. This week's summary was brought to you with the help of Inky Circus ....thanks Inky! Event of the week Pixar: 20 Years of Animation opens at the Science Museum this Saturday. Prebooking is strongly recommended cause, us inkettes dunno, it’s Pixar and they are easily the coolest geekiest most-badass......

Ever wondered what the Koran would sound like if it were read in an East London accent? Well, if you head over to the always interesting Audio Books For Free site then you can download exactly that: an "audio recording of English translation of the Koran in East-London accent". According to an ABFF.com spokesperson "This is our bit for World Peace and mutual understanding. Hopefully, now more East-Londoners of different cultures and backgrounds will......

"We were Three Colours Red and we loved every fucking minute of it!" The first time we saw Three Colours Red they were opening an all dayer in some London field with KISS headlining. It was a memorable performance which is saying a lot when you still have flashbacks to Paul Stanley in facepaint, hovering above the crowd on wires while Ace Frehley shoots fireworks from his guitar... One way or another though the......

Something strange is happening down here in the Londonist dungeon. Editro's decreed the Londonistas wear nothing but leather jerkins, pvc crotch high boots and 'plug in' horses tails. Everyone's getting a little hot under the collar: the news team are a tad friskier than usual (which is pretty damn frisky ladies and gentlemen) and the literary guys are arguing the relative merits of The Story Of O as a life style choice. It can......