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Hope springs eternal! Yes, spring has sprung at last, and it couldn’t have possibly come sooner. Sure, it’s supposed to rain all week, but at least it’s warm(ish) rain. Get out there and take advantage of the coming season of rebirth, and don’t forget to indulge in some illicit hugging (see what's on for Sunday). Monday: London writer/filmmaker Daniel Frampton, author of Filmosophy and host of the club of the same name dedicates evenings......

It's late and you're somewhere near Leicester Square. You want to sit down and rest those dance-weary feet - or like Londonist, you are a glutton and you're looking for some dessert. Head to Café Ciao with its range of gelati displayed and giant plastic ice cream outside. Their dessert menu is full of concoctions like these pictured but if sweet treats aren't your thing, there's a menu of savouries though we haven't visited......

Photograph of investigation at Times Square recruiting center by kerfuffle & zeitgeist on Flickr Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City.Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles of rat poison started washing up on local beaches.Shanghaiist was surprised by Bjork's rooting for Tibetan independence at her concert (see video), and the political fallout has only......

Shoreditch Park is a relatively unimpressive green space tucked away behind the Regent’s Canal in Hoxton. There’s not a great deal there, bar a mini-BMX track and some grass, but this weekend, it won’t know what’s hit it, when the Shoreditch Festival commandeers it. The theme of the festival is transforming local spaces and the park promises to be a riot of family tropicana, congo and mangoes on Saturday with a grand parade leaving......

Ice cream and live music are two of Londonist's favourite things. Imagine our excitment when we realised there was a festival that had both! Yes. Both! Well, that's just the kind of event that'll send our blood pressure through the roof. So what's the event are we so excited about? It's the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Sundae. Over July 28th and 29th the Gods of ice cream take over Clapham Common (so that's......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Chances are if you see a movie in London it'll end up being at one of the mega-chain's such as Vue or Odeon. Fortunately, a few boutique cinema houses still exist. One such is The Electric Cinema on trendy Portobello Road, a place everyone should experience at least once in their life. It's easy to miss on market days, but shines like a beacon at night, with the blue neon 'Electric' sign hanging over......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

Today is free ice cream day from Ben and Jerry's. Could you think of any better free day? Of course, for the first time in a week the sun has gone away, but that won't stop us. There are 4 Ben & Jerry's stores in London - Leicester Square, Oxford Street (near Bond St tube), Greenwich and Tower Place. Free ice cream is available between 1 and 5 and all you need to do......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

Monkey Magic far from being content with taking one great shot of an ice cream van vendor has a whole set of them: The ice cream vans of North West London. How cool is that?......

BBC News has come under fire from Welsh nationalist MPs, who have branded it "London-centric". Following on the bird flu stuff from yesterday: plans for the first clinical trials of the H5N1 vaccine in London have been presented to the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. Ken's launched a new campaign to get Londoner's cycling. The slogan is 'You're better of by bike'. Lindsay Lohan's London Lover might be Rhys Ifans. But it......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Beckett Centenary Celebration continues this week with a season of his shorter works at the Bookshop Theatre, A Piece of Monologue on Tuesday ("the summing up of the last two and a half billion seconds of a man's life") and The End on Wednesday (One man’s testament to the lack of care in......

I'm thinking of changing the name of this column already, to "Notes From The Sickbed". After but two days of almost -wellness I caught tonsillitis for the first time ever on the weekend. It hurts. A lot. Cue more cancelled work, more time forced to stay in bed but this time the added bonus of penicillin...mmmm, it's quite nice. I spent most of this afternoon sitting in a drug addled haze thinking about ice......

To call Dans le Noir 'high concept' dining would be an understatement. Basically the idea behind the restaurant (which opened in the past week after the success of a Paris version) is that you eat in the pitch black in order that your senses will be heightened, and your taste buds will be liberated. You can't see what you're eating, who you're eating it with, and anything that might illuminate proceedings (phones, lighters, infrared......

Quick note for you to scribble into your Time Lord branded diary: SCI-FI-LONDON 26 - 30 April. This year the festival is partnered up with SFX magazine whose editor, David Bradley, sums up the event quite nicely: "SCI-FI-LONDON is growing in prominence every year, and the SFX team is excited to be working with a festival that not only showcases a varied range of SF films but also boasts the Douglas Adams Memorial Debate......

New restaurant, new building. And while looking like an Ikea showcase, The Terrace’s wood and glass structure makes for a surprisingly snazzy eating environment. The combination of timber and tealights suggest warmth and traditionalism, but the cream and powder-blue furnishings remind us of the plastic modern world, and contrast nicely. We were shown to a window seat, one of many that gaze out into the surrounding greenery of London’s largest garden square. With the......

We like to think we're pretty handy in the kitchen here at Londonist. Ok, so we're not a bunch of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls, running around slaughtering lambs and pefecting our organic nettle soup, and we will admit to having the odd takeaway number stored on our mobiles... but we like to think we're doing the best we can with the resources available. There are however certain gaps in our collective culinary knowledge bank, so when......

It happens to almost every couple at some stage: she goes on whatever diet is in fashion, he harrumphs and tries to prove a point by eating even lardier food, and eating together at home, let alone out at a restaurant, is nigh on impossible. Gordon F. Ramsay and his wife, Tana, are no exception. While hubby makes pizza and charges £100 for it (meal deals including a litre bottle of fizzy pop and......

The Polyphonic Spree - Kokos, Monday 15th August In our time we've probably seen enough stage divers and crowd surfers to pack out a Coldplay video. We've seen stage diving singers, we've even seen a crowd surfing guitarist. But only now can we say that we've finally seen a crowd surfing drummer. Playing a drum. One of those big military marching things. Or at least trying to - we guess it's not that easy......

Londonist has been showing relativists around London so we missed the latest news on the terrorists... Thank the gods for Jon Snow: Well amazing scenes in West London. In a way we've entered a new media age let alone a new age of capturing people suspected of attempting to bomb. Because I mean the world and his wife have been telephoning from blocks surrounding the drama reporting on what they can see from the Peabody......

Imagine it. You go to Leicester Square on a friday night, you buy a beer, then you go and see a film with a tub of popcorn and a soft drink and you still have change out of a fiver. A madman's dream, you might think. But no. Long-time Londonist friends the Prince Charles Cinema are hosting a whole month's worth of "Feel-Good Fridays" when - get this - films, cokes, beers, popcorn, and......