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At a loose end? Want cheap beer? Wandering aimlessly around Mile End, or Hackney Wick (you can read Londonist on your mobile's browser after all)? Want to buy some art? If you can check any of these boxes, then you should head down to Decima Gallery's launch of Decima Editions, a new project selling artists' products and merchandise. By multiples they mean limited, and non limited edition. A wide range of people/art groups have......

Last full week before Christmas, we expect your bank account's feeling the strain. All that Christmas shopping and partying taking its toll? If you want to make the most of being out and about before Christmas cabin fever and complete exhaustion set in then we're here to help. Monday: Keep the braincells going through silly season. Go to the free lecture at Gresham College about why our society rewards celebrities, fads and fashions and......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Laxeiro 93 Columbia Road E2 7RG Reservations: 0207 729 1147 12pm-3pm, 7-11pm (Tuesday – Saturday) 9am - 3pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: £5 for most tapas Rating: 9.5 out of 10 After last week’s lunch of very good but still not phenomenal tapas at Meson los Barriles, we were left desperate for some proper Spanish cooking. So, going......

Student Showcases – let’s face it, they’re normally reasonably boring. However, this Friday sees a student showcase with a difference as the Westminster Centre for Commercial Music (WCCM) launches with a star-studded showcase at Brick Lane's 93 Feet East. WCCM can lay claim to numerous famous faculty and previous students, with the Infadels, The Feeling, and Pure Reason Revolution all having attended, along with one off lectures from the likes of Russell Simmons, Pete Waterman,......

Craving Vietnamese food in the city? Well now you can satiate your noodle soup desires at the restaurant Pho found in Clerkenwell. Unlike its brethren congregated along Kingsland Road, Pho stands out as the only Vietnamese restaurant amongst the more upmarket dining options on St Johns Street. Pho has a decent number of tables though always appears full anytime past seven during the week when its open. After that you'll have to queue and......

The 28th of May marks the start of National BBQ Week, and the National BBQ Association is hosting events up and down the country in their bid to get you to barbecue better and more often. Are you a wonder on the Weber? Then enter the barbecue beauty contest, Britain's Best BBQ'er. (The top prize is a trip to America's biggest BBQ event, Memphis in May.) Or battle it out with your partner in......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

Given the interest generated here by the news that the NFL is coming to town later this year we feel there'll be lots of you wanting to satisfy your curiosity by catching this year's American Football showpiece, the Superbowl, live from Miami starting very late on Sunday night and continuing well into Monday morning. Now, obviously, you can do this in the quiet comfort of your own home courtesy of the free terrestrial coverage,......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

Tonight: Kaibosh are back to deliver some meaty crunching riffs at G Lounge, 18 Kentish Town Road. Doors open 7pm and £4 in. Or else make your way down to The Social for a second dose of Sonic Cathedral where prime Norwegian MBV-ers Serena Mareesh and The High Dials will be playing whilst Spiritualized's Will Carruthers djs. The Legion, 348 Old Street, doors at 7, tickets at 5. Friday: Super lo-fi furries, Champion Kickboxer......

Spring does seem to be wheezing and clawing its way to the capital. After a pretty dismal start to the day, it finally turned out nice again, and Londonist got our first-nostril-full of BBQ during our afternoon stroll. And that stroll took us past Buck Pal, where we spotted this host of golden daffodils. In fact, the whole of Green Park has shifted to a longer-wavelength yellow as a vernal influorescence carpets the banks......

We do love you guys. Very much. Not only do you read our purdy li'l ol' website, engage in gentle banter with us and remind us that we're not alone out there in this big scary blogiverse thing, but you also occasionally remind us of gigs we should be at / telling you about. Like Sufjan Stevens bringing Illinois to London at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 17th October. Mr Pollo, whoever you are,......

On our way to a preview of Private - an Italian movie that shows the very human face of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict as a house becomes commandeered by soldiers - we were surprised to bump into Cho-Rong-Yi and Saek-Dong-Yi (the cuddly figures pictured to the right). Turns out that the Prince Charles cinema is playing host to the 3rd Annual London Korean Film Festival and what's more the screenings are absolutely FREE. Tickets are......

Saturday 21st May....put that date in your diary. We've got the FA Cup Final we wanted, so now we feel perfectly within our rights to demand that the game itself should be a classic , with Arsenal winning and for it to be sunny so we can have a BBQ and sit outside with plenty of those little stubby bottles of french beer that you get from the supermarket. Olé! Unfortunately, just like the......

Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word 'shambles' was entirely appropriate. If you'd rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes play The Eye in Stoke Newington High Street from 9pm. They're be joined by Vincent Vincent and the Villains. Tuesday 7th The highly-recommended (by us) Thread (right) play POP (off......