In the late 90s, I knew a bloke who cut up an A-Z, and wallpapered the hall of his flat with the pages. It was great for checking where you were headed before popping out to meet someone. Artist Stephen Walter's gone a step further, drawing his own, unique, geographically accurate version of London. The Island: London Series is a graphite drawing of our fair city comprised of cartoon-ish buildings, signposts, historical details and quirky......

You may remember that we're not exactly lukewarm about this place. We were even up for finding love here. I guess you could say we're fans. Nothing has changed with a change in exhibition: Sleeping and Dreaming is marvellous and you must go. For a start, it's free. Nought pee. You can just swan through the doors, turn left and there you are. But that's where it gets dark and you immediately start watching......

A week after opening for the Queen, St Pancras International is finally ready for the likes of us. The station has been restored beyond its former glory. Britain's answer to Central Station is ready for business. Everyone knows by now that the sumptious Euston Road frontage to the station was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. But what else in London did the Great Scott design? Time to dust off our old 'Stalks' series,......

Antony Gormley continues his conquest of our town with this, his first piece of artwork in the City of London. 'Resolution' can be found on the corner of Shoe Lane and St Bride Street - an area surrounded by construction work. Gormley describes the piece: "Seen from afar it looks like a man, from close up it looks like a city. It is wonderful to be able to site a work that interacts with......

While the newspapers and press agencies get their knickers in a twist over coverage conditions for the Rugby World Cup which kicks off in the Stade de France tonight, we're turning our attention to a more pressing issue. Which are the best London pubs to watch the tournament in? Several of the big chains are promising full coverage: It's a Scream, O'Neills, Pitcher & Piano and Walkabout. However, what's the more discerning and individual......

It's not the first place you would think of when looking for love but for those with a questing heart, the place to go is Euston Road. art2heart is the dating organisation that aims to bring people together through art and culture. The idea is both lofty and lovely: each month, 150 people, sometimes more, gather for monthly art2heart events held at prestigious museums or galleries where art can be admired and discussed with......

This new space for science, arts and medicine isn’t yet on everyone’s cultural radar. It will be soon. The Wellcome Collection was opened yesterday by James Watson, the giant of science who co-discovered the structure of DNA. Watson said that we Brits ‘should be proud’ to boast such a centre, lambasting the rest of Europe and particularly the USA for lacking decent public science venues. And it really is a treasure. Three galleries chart......

Like an invisible web of impossibly magic pockets of the internet hovering in London’s heavens, weird and wonderful WiFi proliferates enabling us tech-savvy, laptop bearing citizens to maintain our social networking and blog addictions pretty much 24/7. Unsurprising news, then, that wireless networks in London have almost trebled in the last year. We’re outstripping New York and Paris with the rate of growth of our WiFi hotzone with public access hot spots up by......

Well, the big man’s in town – over thirty times – so we thought it apt to track down his other work in the capital. On the map at the bottom, green points indicate temporary installations that form the Event Horizon project, and purple markers are permanent pieces that predate this show. 1. Quantum Cloud, Greenwich Peninsula Did you know that London contains a Gormley sculpture taller than the Angel of the North? Quantum Cloud......

The words 'sublimely beautiful' and 'Euston Road' seldom decorate the same sentence, but here goes... Walk past the Wellcome Trust's HQ on Euston Road for this sublimely beautiful window display, and learn some science at the same time. The eyecatching fluorescent baubels, by designers Graphic Thought Facility, represent the structures of several proteins implicated in human disease. The rogues' gallery includes: leptin, a small protein that can cause obesity if it gets mangled; PPWD1,......

There's not much more to say about the weekend ahead except... "Whoosh! Whee! Bang! fffsssssssssstttttt....POW!" It's Bonfire Night so London is going to be quite preoccupied with either getting as close as possible to some pyrotechnic displays or heading for the hills far away from the fireworks. In case you need any other distractions between now and Monday, here's a slightly truncated Culture Crawl for those who would rather get their thrills from non-exploding......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday To eat or not to eat? Professor of Ethics Peter Singer, author of “Animal Liberation” and “How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest” gives us food for thought in his new book Eating, in which he discusses the effects of the diet choices we make (to ourselves and the......

Having spent an enjoyable couple of hours exploring leafy Holland Park last week, our next mission in our continuing quest to find out more about the city we live in was to investigate some parts of the decidedly more urban locale of St Pancras (sans audio-guide this time). Our first stop was to be St Pancras Old Church, at the top end of Pancras Road. Easier said than done, as it happens – we......

Keep your diaries clear for 16 and 17 September, when Londonist’s favourite event, Open House weekend, will once again be unlocking its many doors for all and sundry (whoever the mysterious 'sundry' might be). For the few readers not familiar with the concept, it’s a chance to nose around private buildings that would otherwise be off-limits, and at no charge other than £3 for a guidebook. Everyone’s first question is: can we go up......

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......

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 Event of the Week Dino Jaws at the Natural History Museum Nothing packs in the punters like a few animatronic dinosaurs. Well, nothing except animatronic elephants. So the NHM should see its attendances soar like a pterodactyl with the opening of its new Dino Jaws exhibition. It’s Natural History......

Well, things are slowly drawing to a close now. If you’ve still not got your arse in gear, though, here are a few ‘must-sees’ around town. Urban Oasis: Remember that shitty He-man movie from the 1980s, with Dolph Lundgren and a juvenile Courtney Cox? Remember that strange ‘key’ thing the hairy dwarf carried around? Well, that’s what they seem to have installed on Clerkenwell Green. It’s a giant, spiky sculpture that shines, flaps and......

54 TOURS, 35 EXHIBITIONS, 19 TALKS, 5 PARTIES, 16 INSTALLATIONS, 8 FILM SCREENINGS, 5 BIG BREAKFASTS, 5 COMPETITIONS, 40 RAILINGS EXHIBITIONS AND 60 HERDWICK SHEEP So, your significant other is going to spend the entire early summer watching football? Wondering what to do with yourself? Well, why not get all enthusiastic about architecture? Throughout June, you can expect a fair few posts on London’s buildings. This month sees the tenth Architecture Week (actually 10......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. There's a wide range of events to choose from this week, with something on offer nearly every night of the week. We also have new releases from, among others, Douglas Coupland (pictured), Peter Carey, Monica Ali, Will Self, and A.M. Homes... Events Around London: Tonight, Turkish author Elif Safak celebrates the English translation of......

Looks like King-Kong's been taking art classes. Bleigiessen, by Thomas Heatherwick, dangles from the roof of the Wellcome Trust headquarters on Euston Road. The numbers are staggering: Height: 30 metres. Wire used: 1 million metres Glass beads: 150 000 Installation time: three months. In fact, the sculpture is so large it can barely be photographed from one spot. We decided to get in a nearby glass lift and film it for you. Learn more......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. It's a good week -- Macmillan is pledging to publish unknown authors, Peter Akroyd is making an appearance (even though he's presumably the sidekick in this particular show), we've got a new Victorian novel (and you can never have enough of those), some Welsh poetry (which actually scares us a little bit), and a......

The mystery red line is back. And this time it's tricksier than ever. The new piece of minimalist pavement art picks up where it left off, opposite the Novotel on Euston Road. (Camden Council must be apoplectic, after doing their best to erase the earlier marking.) We followed it along Pentonville Road for quite some way until it took a sharp right down Amwell Street into Finsbury. From there, it runs into Roseberry Avenue......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The toughest seat in town this week might be the Dan Brown trial, but for those of us who enjoy a bit more literary value and a bit less sensationalism, there are quite a few other big names appearing around London over the next few days... Events Around London: Tonight, American novelist Jay McInerney......

Stretching from Euston Road to the Thames, the inscrutable red marking appeared a couple of months ago. Londonist was unable to get to the bottom of it, despite walking the entire route. BBC London TV also investigated, but were similarly baffled. Step up to the plate Robert Elms, host of Londonist’s favourite radio show (BBC London 12-3pm). One of his listeners raised the question of the line, and Robert decided to investigate. A series......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. You have no idea how pleased we are this week. There is so much going on! We don't feel alone in the world anymore! London book nerds rejoice -- we've got events to attend! And with the exception of the one about work, they're really good events! (In reality, the one about work might......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. This will go down as the week when troubled child writers everywhere lost credibility forever. Pretty amazing that the famous male writer JT Leroy ("pictured") not only isn't a male, but isn't actually a person either -- he's just as fictional as his novels! And doubly amazing that while we were still tryig to......

There’s a thin line between genius and madness, and we think we’ve just found it. Anyone who’s been into central London over the past few days may have noticed a seemingly endless red line wending along the pavements of WC1 and WC2, like the aftermath of some giant menstrual snail. On and on it goes for well over two miles. And so did we, in search of answers. The line begins at an anonymous......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Londonist Literary List has only one Christmas wish, and that is for all of its readers to buy books as gifts this holiday season, and for those books to be bought at independent bookstores, so that Waterstone's and Borders don't take over the world. The indie stores are making this easy for you......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Thank you thank you thank you, Smoke, for being the first literary journal to actually take us up on our offer for free publicity!! Smoke's got a new issue out, and they want you to know about it, and they want us to help you know about it, and if you scroll down to......

The scientists who will be filling the British Library for their meat market Beautiful Minds Mingle will probably not be the most, um, fashion-conscious people in London. In fact, most people who enter the British Library probably aren't in the running for any best-dressed awards. But for those of you who have an interest in the serious frivolity and ephemeral momentousness of clothes and hairstyles, be sure not to miss the display currently on......