So very many opportunities to take advantage of this week in London! Summer's in full swing, and there are more outdoor festivals, gallery shows, lectures, film screenings, and general merriment than we know what to do with. Get started with this round-up for those light on the pocket jingle-jangle. Monday: Fancy yourself a BobCat? Heard all the rare B sides, own all the bootleg vinyls? Perfected your famed 3-pints deep gravelly-voiced rendering of 'Blowin'......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews continues, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, the girls of St Trinian’s, a schizoid version of Bob Dylan’s life in I’m Not There and the vile evil Alvin and the Chipmunks. The posters of vamped up schoolgirls that have sprung up across town mark the return of the anarchic St Trinian’s girls, a bold effort to launch a new generation of Brit comedies, taking the 1950s Ealing comedies......

"En 10 años de servicio nunca he visto una tontería igual." - In ten years of service, never have I seen such foolishness. So said the local policeman last Sunday at Madrid's Londonize event. Of course, every London market has Beefeaters in full costume guarding the gates and every stallholder is happy to haggle in exaggerated cockney accents with each customer. This applies only to every London market in Madrid. At Londonize, Madrileños were......

This week - Adam Sandler's family were killed in 9/11 (Reign Over Me) and Ryan Gosling is a crack addict high school teacher (Half Nelson). Before we push on, it is only right that we warn you that Peter Bradshaw hasn't written any reviews for the films that we feature today. Even geniuses like him need a week off, even if he can watch a 2 hour film in 3 minutes superman stylee then......

The Londonist Literary List appears (almost) every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. STOP THE PRESS: We have a late edition to the list, "Golden Handcuffs - Scandals, Drugs & Lies" by Polly Courtney is being launched on Thursday 12 - 2pm and promises "A cynical, gritty look at what it really means to sell your soul to the city." D202, St. Clements Building, London School......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. To start us off, 3AM Magazine has an interview with Tom McCarthy whose debut novel, Remainder, has just been published by Alma Books, and whose critical essay, Tintin and the Secret Literature, is reviewed in the Guardian. And sticking with comics, Free New Books provides an eclectic library of downloadable reads, of most interest......

We had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Miss Kate Stables on a Southbound train from Clapham Junction. It was Christmas and we were, of course, packed in like sardines. So much for finding one's seat; this Londonista's bags - stuffed with presents for the family - was too heavy and cumbersome to move, let alone navigate down the all-too-narrow aisle (seriously, South West Trains, did luggage not exist when you built your......

Back in those heady days known as the nineties lurking behind the Spice Girls and the All Saints, was a much quieter, melodic, band formed by two sisters from Barking. Discovered by Dave Stewart, Shelly & Karen Poole became Alisha’s Attic (named after their imaginary childhood friend) and went on to have 8 top 40 hits between 1996 and 2001. Since then both Shelly and Karen have been writing for other artists such as......

This weekend see the start of another 'popular culture' exhibition at the Proud Gallery in Camden (the other one is on the Strand). Sometimes the Proud's exhibition schedule can maybe look a little 'fluffy' against some of the capital's more heavyweight contenders. But popular culture is what the Proud galleries do best, and their quality control is pretty good too. So if you can get over the fact that they're actually called the 'Sony......

Wa hey! Babybumbles are touring. Oh, no they're not. It would seem that like most of us, Pete D hates his day job and is pulling the mother of all sickies. I don't want to go to the studiooooooohhhhhhh (stomps feet). Our money's on Pete having been caught admiring his own reflection in the mirror causing Kate to be so annoyed she dropped her soya infused rice crackers on the floor, and he's now......

U2, Wirelss, Live 8, B-Live, Queen, REM it's not exactly been about the small shows recently. So the cockles were gently stoked when we finally saw the words intimate show again recently. First off was the news that Elbow are back in September on Tuesday 6th, the day after the release of their new album: Leaders Of The Free World. Guy Garvey may be the human looking equivalent of Droopy but the thought of......

Taking time out of his busy schedule of alienating Evening Standard Journalists and the Jewish, Ken Livingstone has turned his attention to Oxford Street complaining that the pavements are impossible to walk along without getting buffeted and that there's too many buses. Startling stuff from the Mayor. Londonist is guessing someone popped into HMV to pick up a Bob Dylan Box Set, had a hard time making it back across the pavement to the......