Photo credit: sniderscion Torontoist spent its week uncovering who was behind mysterious ads for a drug called "Obay" that popped up across the country (Scientology? Frank Shepard Fairey?), first tracing them to an advocacy group called Colleges Ontario and then confirming their suspicions a few days later.Phillyist learned how to put on a puppet show – it's not as easy as you might think!Shanghaiist discovers that the average starting monthly pay for fresh graduates......

Ahhh, it's finally summer (try and ignore the rain for a moment). Summer in London means many things: picnics in Green Park, staying out late on a school night and students all over the capital stressing out about their exams and final year exhibitions. Enter Free Range 2007. A show of some of the most prestigious universities' design work, all in the heart of Brick Lane: The Old Truman Brewery. Londonist caught up with......

If people want something to look at while they are in hospital, ask them what they would rather see: a qualified nurse approaching with a fresh bedpan or a dramatic black and white photo of the local area. Neither are particularly appealing especially if you're recovering from surgery but it's an urgent interior decoration dilemma that Kingston Hospital is facing at the moment. In an email leaked last Friday to the London Health Emergency......

The London Design Festival is back next month, running 15 -30 September and if you're that way inclined, take out your Philip Starcke pen and put it in your Moleskine diary now. Established in 2003 to celebrate and promote London and the UK’s design creativity, the festival has grown as the capital's reputation for across all disciplines (architecture, product, graphic, fashion design) has grown. This year's festival aims to encourage collaborations between the biggest......

And you thought the God Squad was a mere turn of phrase. If the previews for God's Next Army (Mon 8pm C4) are right, then the Grand Old Party should be on its guard as a Trojan horse of bright young things - bright, utterly fanatical young zealots from fundie colleges in the South, we should say - is preparing to take it over from the inside. Yes, in this documentary we get to......

Over the weekend we received an email in response to our post last week about the 'Smurf' who was arrested for for using threatening words and behaviour at Twickenham Stadium. The email is from "a good friend" of the aforementioned Smurf (who is apparently called Lenny) and explains a few of the mitigating details around the incident. We'll let you be the judge and jury on this one: [Lenny] started his day in Cornwall......

Imperial College held its vote about leaving the University of London today and, after years of mutterings, has finally served notice that it will leave the University of London. As we said a few weeks ago, losing the science, technology and medicine college is a gnat of a threat to the University's future compared to the mammoth damage that could be caused by the QAA withholding its 'broad vote of confidence'. (An even greater threat......

"No sorry, I couldn't buy you anything this year as I didn't want to damage my lungs." That could work couldn't it? Especially if you accompanied it with a bit of wheezy breathing and the odd hacking cough. You see, those trusty researchers at Imperial College London have been doing some proper work (as opposed to getting dressed up and trashing other colleges) and have discovered that "Christmas shoppers in London's Oxford Street are......

This week seems to be the week for colleges banning things. First we had the Imperial College banning hoodies in a ridiculous attempt to 'increase security'; and now the Royal College of Art has banned 'camping'. Now it's not that Kensington is a popular spot for ramblers or anything, but the college's annual lucky dip picture postcard sale does attract a lot of 'early birds', with hopeful punters this year pitching up as early......

Debates about the future of the federal University of London have been going on since Londonist was a mere slip of a tax-dodger at the LSE, about three stones lighter and a touch over a decade ago, and we dare say those debates were taking place a long time before we arrived on the scene. At the heart of the threat to the University of London has always been the superiority complexes of 'the......

If you attended any of the events which made up the Rise Festival (renamed the ' London United free festival' after the bombings) back in July, you might like to know that today is the first day of the Rise Student Week. As you would imagine, the Rise Student Week takes the themes of diversity and anti-racism which make up the main festival and encourages colleges and universities to stage events promoting those ideals.......

Funny place, Holborn: it's not the City; it's not the West End; it refuses to be pinned down to any point of the compass. It is obscure and recondite to most people, a lesser-known and unappealing neighbour to Bloomsbury and Clerkenwell. There are diddly-squat famous attractions here; it's biggest draw being the ornate law colleges of Greys Inn and Lincolns Inn, but they're generally closed at weekends. Any tourists alighting from Holborn Tube will......

It's one of those stories that, if the Daily Mail ever get wind of, we'll never hear the end of it. A Greenwich-based theatre company are currently staging Shakespeare classics in their own "unique" way. That's "unique" as in gay. The Melmoth Theatre Company's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream is currently playing to audiences at the Greenwich Playhouse and, according to the producers, "schools and colleges" were keen to see the show. Did you......