On a cold winter night in North London, we meet with hotly tipped indie pop beat combo The Wave Pictures before their gig at the Islington Bar Academy. Counting Jeffrey Lewis, Dean Wareham, Darren Hayman and Herman Düne as fans David Tattersall (vocals, guitar), Franic Rozycki (bass) and Jonny 'Huddersfield' Helm talk to us about their inspirations and what it's like to be finally getting recognition after years of obscurity. How would you describe......

A new sculpture for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square is unveiled today. Elbowing Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant out of the way (rudely ignoring all the current efforts of Team Nice) is German artist Thomas Schütte's Model for a Hotel 2007 and it replaces Quinn's cool, white, serene statue of a round-stomached Lapper with something distinctly more colourful and quirky. After a two year gestation period, Alison Lapper Pregnant has been taken down......

If you have ever longed to exorcise yourself of those dreary afternoons in chilly church halls and torturous tinned food stockpiling that seemed to be the sole remit of Harvest Festivals at primary schools two decades ago, then your chance to experience a very different kind of Harvest Festival is taking place in Camberwell this Sunday. Inspirational art organisations motiroti and home are both jumbles of creative, international, artistic energy and will be combining......

Conservatives are campaigning for more rights to deal with unruly teens in a physical manner, without fear of prosecution. Dominic Grieve, the shadow Attorney General, blames the rise of youth crime on the breakdown of the family unit and a lack of public confidence in getting support from the police or fellow members of the public: 'They take the view that if the matter gets out of control, there's a danger that if they......

There's a few articles around today about Jay Jopling's latest venture: the £12 million White Cube, Mason's Yard in St James's, due to open at the end of this week. According to Adrian Searle in the Guardian the new building which stands on the site of a former electricity sub-station, is more than double the size of the Hoxton White Cube, and "even its broom cupboard is probably bigger than White Cube's first incarnation"......

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)......

Every one these days seems to have a MySpace page - Kelly Osbourne, Chuck Norris, Bruce Campbell, the Winner / Sinner guy... Of course you're never 100% sure that the tripe written on these pages has really come from the person in question, but then again is there really someone with that much time on their hands that they'd stoop to impersonating Philip Howard? Well yeah probably. The photos he's uploaded all seem to......

Public Enemy frontman Chuck D's line "don't believe the hype" is up there as an aphorism which cuts to the quick and right down to size. With this in mind, approach if you will the unbelievable buzz surrounding the launch of the Da Vinci Code film. Branded Eurostar trains, 'on the trail of the Da Vinci Code' coach tours, and now this – a note left by Tom Hanks, who plays protagonist Robert Langdon,......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. On offer this week are a couple of imported events, most notably from the United States and Slovenia, a couple of appearances by Chuck Palahniuk (pictured), a couple of pretty good British authors thrown into the mix, and one new book by the great Jose Saramago... Events Around London: On Thursday (the 4th), Fight......

This film has got the lot: Mahesh Bhatt (Murder, Kalyug) is introducing his 21-year-old son Rahul in the film industry and he has completed the power packed script of the film titled ‘Suicide Bomber’. The movie explores the mind-set and motivations of a would-be suicide bomber. Bhatt confirmed, “I have finalized the name, it will be called simply ‘Suicide Bomber’. He wants to cast new faces in his film and is still finalizing the......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Should we bother copyrighting our work in the age of the internet? Can a Booker Prize-winning novelist be wild? Are George W. Bush's abuses limited to the present, or do they affect the past as well? Is all of our complaining responsible for the current surge in literary events? And if so, does that......

So. You’re in a Mexican restaurant. You think you know what you want from the menu – it’s all the same, right? A bit of chilli con carne, some guacamole, maybe a few tortilla chips, a beer with a slice of lime or jug of sangria and that’s that – you’ve had your Mexican for the year, now back to the normal schedule. Chuck in a few fake cacti and some amusing sombreros and......

For once, the reality lived up to the hype... 'Survival Sunday' was as thrilling as promised....unless you were a Palace fan, in which case it was akin to being delivered a series of swift kicks to the bollocks from a livid Chuck Norris (in his prime). Still, followers of the Super Eagles can perhaps console themselves that it could have been worse, as getting walloped 6-0 at Craven Cottage is pretty much as bad......

The wedding cake isn't yet stale and already plans are underway to bring us a TV friendly version of Charles and Camilla, whether we want one or not. ITV's Granada will be regurgitating the early days of Chuck and his first love in a docudrama entitled Whatever Love Means. Casting begins in May. This could be the perfect opportunity for Christopher Eccleston to get out from under the Doctor Who yoke, but casting Camilla......

Last weekend Channel 4 screened the results of its online poll to find the top 100 cartoons, and while it threw up the odd oversight (Fantasia at 53 while Shrek and Shrek 2 come in at 6???), it was pretty much the usual suspects in the top 10 with the Simpsons inevitably at number one. One of the artists that featured regularly throughout in one capacity or another was animation legend Chuck Jones, whose......