Tonight marks the end of Wednesday's most famous club night - Nag Nag Nag. Borne out of the electroclash wave in the early naughties, Jonny Slut, Fil OK and JoJo De Freq have been packing the underground lair of Ghetto with many a fashionable wreck every week since. At it's peak everyone wanted in from Bjork to Justin Timberlake, Bono to Christina Aguilera but it was the crowd of metro sexual DIY rule breakers......

The statisticians are at it again. Trying to connect A-B but, just for fun, popping into every shop along the way. Sketching trends with a pencil as there is insufficient data to ink them in. Reading significance into very little. Missing the point. A new survey by the University of East London has produced a map portraying religious segregation in the capital, which concludes that religion is a bigger dividing factor in the city than......

This review was always going to say he was brilliant, of course. The diminutive one had to be great. Just how fab a live performer he can be, though, is indicated by the fact that, even though we were late (having meticulously planned a schedule which involved the O2 “Express” boat along the Thames which rocked up a sluggish 25 minutes late thereby cutting out the first 15 minutes of the Purple one’s set)......

We briefly introduced Dragonette last year when we went to see them at Ghetto, and since then they've gone from strength to strength. Dragonette are Dan, Martina, Joel and Will. From Toronto, the band have been based in London for the last year or so while writing and recording their debut album of sleazy sounding electro-pop. Competition is their piece de resistance. A slinky song about "fucking your girlfriend", Martina blissfully sings "Goodness I......

A couple of weeks ago on Friday, the perfect antidote to a certain, unmentionable reality TV showdown was a gig at Swiss Cottage Library, of all places. For one night only, the aptly named Mr Hudson and the Library, graced the award-winning building as part of a larger tour of book lending institutions. Their hard work is in aid of the "Get it Loud in Libraries"campaign, promoting the ever growing catalogue of CDs available......

This Day In London’s History 1890: Public opening of the world’s first ‘deep-level’ electric tube line, running between Stockwell and King William Street. Although the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railways had opened several underground tube lines since 1863, these were relatively shallow ‘cut-and-cover’-type lines. Following advances in tunnelling techniques later in the century, it became possible to construct much deeper lines, and the City & South London Railway was opened to the public on......

Graffiti hit the news a couple of times today. Two very different stories show what a complicated and divisive subject this is. At one end of the scale, Banksy once again wins mainstream approval for a new piece of commissioned work in 'Santa's Ghetto' (Oxford Street) featuring Michael Jackson beckoning to Hansel and Gretel. And then there's Bromley lad James Lyons, who's been put away for 12 months in a young offenders' institution for......

If you've seen the cute and colourful video to Annie Mac favourite and Crazy Itch Radio highlight Take Me Back To Your House, then not only will you be rejoicing at the first Basement Jaxx video in a while to not include eye-avertingly massive breasts, but you'll have unbeknown to yourself, been introduced to the wonderful world of Dragonette. Dragonette sees said vocalist, Martina Sorbera, joined by three Canadian musicians to create sparkly, glamorous,......

Peckham Academy school and nearby Harris Girls' Academy in East Dulwich are to reopen this morning after threats of 'gang violence' last Friday meant they had to be evacuated. Escalating trouble between rival gangs in the area (the Ghetto Boys from Lewisham and the Peckham Boys) resulted in the stabbing of 29-year-old Jason Gayle-Bent in New Cross last Sunday. On Friday afternoon police were told that "one group would be lying in wait to......

Returning this week with his second album Afro Strut, Amp Fiddler made his mark on the music scene back in 2004 with his critcially acclaimed first album Waltz of a Ghetto Fly. But we've got to be honest, when we heard Afro Strut we didn't really have much of a clue who he was. Sure, we've seen the name Amp Fiddler, but shockingly appear to have thought it was some kind of acoustic night......

For once we're giving you more than five hours notice on clubbing tips for this weekend, mainly because we've been planning this particular Friday night for weeks and weeks. We've always been a fan of industrial-styled superclub Fabric and their ecletic line-ups, spending many a night down in the former meat-cellar dancing to the likes of Jacques Le Cont (before the Madonna years) and discovering cool new bands like Clor (*sob*) before they hit......

The world of literary/artistic criticism can be wonderfully/infuriatingly obscure. Trying to read books that demand an hour per page (hello, The Order Of Mimesis!) can get a bit wearisome at times; trying to read books dedicated to ”werewolves, shamen, witches, demons and murderers” (hello, Nick Land on Bataille!) can be a real mindfuck. It’s a good thing that we have people like Slavoj Žižek around to make crits, if not a walk in the......

To us Borough Market has always been about food. Ostrich burgers, speciality cheeses, all types of crazy breads, and those amazing chorizo sandwiches from that one stall (mmm, we're making ourselves hungry just typing this). But now the market is home to the latest addition to the Paul Smith mini-empire. Smith's newest little shop is located at 13 Park Street on the fringes of the market area. It will sell all the usual Paul......

Everyone drinks on a Saturday -- it's practically required. Drinking on, say, a Tuesday afternoon probably means that you're an alcoholic. But drinking on a Sunday afternoon? It manages to be both decadent and civilised, just louche enough without being irresponsible. You can pretend, for a day, that you are privileged enough to get drunk when those around you are not, while resting secure in the knowledge that, twenty-four hours later you will be......

For me, the ideal Sunday starts as a carry on from Saturday, as when the clock strikes midnight I'll probably be found dancing happily to all things smelling of cheese at Wig-Out at Ghetto. Hopefully though, upon leaving the club, a cab will miracously appear and I'll be tucked up all snuggly in bed by about 4am. With no reason to wake up early, I'll gradually arise from my slumber about 1pm whereupon my hunky......

With all this book reading, tv viewing, lecture attending, film watching and Ken chasing, we at the Londonist towers have realised we've forgotten to do one vital thing. We've forgotten to dance! Upon this realisation we immediately rushed to the nearest Office and bought ourselves a pair of comfortable, yet stylish dancing shoes. We've just put them on and by heck we're going to use them. Ladies and Gentlemen of London, beware, the Londonistas are......

After a week off, London's friendliest alternative Friday night club, Popstarz, reopens tonight with a night in honour of its founder, Simon Hobart, who died last week. Entry will be £5, all of which will be going to Simon's favourite charity, Macmillan Cancer Research. We're hoping for good weather though, as with no queue jumps avaliable, we think the queue round the Scala is going to be one of the biggest seen in a......

For the first time in a long time, there is no Popstarz at Scala tonight leaving London's indie gay & lesbian boys and girls without their Friday night home to dance in. Popstarz promoter, Simon Hobart, was found dead on Sunday morning having suffered from a fatal head injury. Like many of us, Simon fled to London as a refuge from the narrowness and isolation of provincial suburban life. Starting club promotion when he......

The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle to write the Midweek Music News introduction while working out his taxes So wrote Massive Attack about the struggle to keep up Londonist duties while pressing matters involving HMRC are at hand. HMRC wait for no man, however, so without further ado, here's your Midweek Music News. Tonight NME tipped electro boy......

A lot of the US papers are carrying reviews of Roman Polanski's Oliver today so we thought we'd bring you a bit of a roundup of what they're saying. We'll kick off though with the only UK paper to get in on the act so early: the Standard. Nick Curtis was at the British premier of the film last night and his review is headlined The Best of Twists, so there's no grey areas......

This past weekend saw the doors close for the final time at the 113-year-old Whitechapel Library. The library was founded 1892 by the Liberal MP J Passmore Edwards (there's a nice picture of the man himself here) and quickly garnered a reputation as "the university of the ghetto". Saturday's Guardan reported on the closure, reminding us of the scores of notable men and women who have perused the lbrary's shelves: Jacob Bronowski, scientist and......

Two pictures of Jesus in one day? You can tell it's getting towards Christmas can't you. Admittedly this isn't something you'd send to your gran on a card for the festive season, not unless she's really up for rallying "against the commercialisation of Christmas" It's actually a festive piece of Banksy artwork, available at Santa's Ghetto, which bills itself as an "art concept store" (but don't let that put you off). The idea, is......