Londonist's walks with One Eye Grey are always excellent, informative, intriguing and - importantly - a laugh but you can't always cover as much ground as you might like. Tonight then, break new ground with Fright Bikes, One Eye Grey's collaboration with Witcombe Cycles and Southwark Cyclists, presenting a frightful set of stories stretching from London Bridge to darkest Deptford and ending up in a jolly pub. Ghostly polar bears, well hung pirates, the......

In the quest for local kudos, organisational dynamism and staff motivation making humdrum local business improvement initiatives sound sexy is all important. The London Bridge Business Improvement District Company decided they had a crap name so, inspired by the spirit and energy of amusing films by the makers of South Park and general corporate Americanisms they've rebranded as Team London Bridge. It's enough to make you do some athletic cheerleading. Go team! The new......

Booze might now be banned on public transport, but that doesn't stop us getting trolleyed in the stations. The Betjeman Arms recently opened at St Pancras, bringing a much-needed touch of class to London's catalogue of terminus taprooms. To celebrate, we decided to go on a campaign for rail ale. Despite objections from our livers and serious renal remonstrance, we spent last Saturday working our way though a laevorotatory pub crawl of the major......

‘It’s new and it’s bloody scary,’ says the tourist blub. ‘C’est nouveau et terriblement effrayant,’ it repeats in French. Well, you try sounding menacing in that language. ‘Eine neue, unheimlich gruselige Sensation.’ That’s more like it. We prefer the German, especially as ‘die London Bridge Experience’ carries an apt definite article. London’s new tourist attraction beneath guess-which bridge opened its doors yesterday. (After two days of PR misery when power failures scuppered the media......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 36. In the nicest possible way… Commuting has got lots of anti-social elements to it – Tfl have just launched this lovely campaign about getting on together – it consists of posters around London stations, and then buried deep right at the back of the wardrobe of the corporate TfL website, so deep in fact......

You may remember a couple of months back that we spent the night in a haunted plague pit. We certainly remember. Oh, how we remember. Since our little adventure, the complex of warehouse space has been converted into London's latest museum and tourist attraction. Housed in the excavated vaults and tombs of the bridge itself, The London Bridge Experience will offer two distinct attractions under one roof – or, in this case, under the......

Tonight the area between London Bridge and Tower Bridge is going to look a little different. HMS Belfast will be camouflaged and the old London Bridge post office building on Borough High St will look like a post box. You won't be tripping out but you will be witnessing the illuminations for Switched On London 2008 lighting up the bridges, the Tower of London, Potters Fields, Southwark Cathedral and more in a fantastically sustainable......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… As we wallow in the truly miserable news that Aliens Vs Predator made more money at the box office last week than No Country for Old Men, we sigh and turn our attentions to this week’s offerings. The three biggest releases this week are all stamped with Oscar. We’ve got Johnny Depp singing in Cockney and slicing throats in Sweeney Todd, Tommy Lee......

Video. Everyone's at it. After our recent clip showing the haunted vaults beneath London Bridge and Stompie the Bermondsey tank, we thought it was about time to make a regular slot for this not-so-new medium. So we'll be poking our lenses into all kinds of recondite places over the coming months. To kick things off, here's a walk along the Fleet River Valley - from King's Cross to Blackfriars - courtesy of Jamie Gregory.......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th January 1437: The Great Stone Gate at the south side of London Bridge collapses, taking down two bridge arches and several houses with it. Tuesday – 15th January 1867: The ice on Regent’s Park Lake gives way while hundreds of people are skating on it. Dozens drown. Wednesday – 16th January 1599: Poet Laureate Edmund Spenser is buried in Westminster. His coffin is borne by other......

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to share their latest picks with Londonist and all our readers. Cheers! Here’s the current list from Fancyapint? in no particular order of merit. They assure us that all ten......

In which we spend a night with some decayed, 17th century dudes, in the catacombs beneath London Bridge. Beneath the Surrey side of London Bridge, behind doors that once led to the robot-kitsch Cynthia's Bar, a new attraction is taking shape. The London Bridge Experience will open in February. Part museum, part CGI scare-fest, the LBE will take visitors on a historical tour of the 2000 year-old crossing, and down into previously disused catacombs......

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 29. Bystander Eageration… After being made redundant the other week, I was offered some work by a friend who runs a market stall selling Christmas gifts. It’s chilly work but my silly dance moves to keep warm have amused the customers, and their weird behaviour has kept me very interested in them. Weirdly, the less......

Before the demolition of Old London Bridge, whose narrow arches restricted the flow, the Thames used to freeze over in the coldest winters. In such years, the denizens of London would gather on the ice for a frost fair. Here's how it might look today. Although we suspect that icing over the Thames would be easier than freezing modern health and safety rules. As a yuletide bonus, we'll be doing a seasonally themed Touch......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 10th December 1907: Anti-vivisectionists march through central London to protest at the dissection of a brown terrier dog several years earlier. The ‘anti-doggers’ clash with police at Trafalgar Square, in what would become known as the Brown Dog Riots. Tuesday – 11th December 2005: Much of London is covered by a vast plume of smoke, following a series of massive explosions at Buncefield Oil Depot in Hertfordshire.......

London boasts one of the best cultural scenes in the world while also being generally one of the busiest places on earth. This can make it hard to find the time to sample the best performances on offer at some of our world-leading theatres - especially if it takes up 3 hours and puts a huge dent in your wallet. The solution? As previewed on here, a venue under London Bridge rail station might......

Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what may be the first images of notorious street artist Banksy in action. They also got on a runaway train without an operator provoking a response from the transport authorities. Elsewhere, London's answer to Central Station is about to open for business, and Londonist got a sneak preview. Meanwhile, spooky goings-on beneath London Bridge, where a cache of skeletons provided an apt story for Hallowe'en.......

Something is stirring in the catacombs beneath London Bridge. A cache of skeletons has been uncovered close to the steps where Nancy betrayed Bill Sykes. And construction workers on the site of a new museum are too afraid to work as tools go missing and lightbulbs explode. What sounds like the cover blurb of a Neil Gaiman novel is being presented as fact over on the BBC. Apparently, two Kentish brothers building a new......

View Larger Map So what happened to all those lovely new towers we were promised? The Shard, the helter-skelter, the cheesegrater and their friends have been around as designs for years. But where have they got to? If you've checked the City skyline lately, you'll notice it's all cranes. Things are finally happening and everything's in place for a new-look London for 2011. Here's a tour of five of the more prominent sites, all of......

Area 10 Project Space is an artistic Never Never Land, hidden in wasteland in Peckham, overlooking the now-filled-in canal and overshadowed by the award-winning, (albeit strangely short of books) library. To step through its doors is to enter another world, where aerial perfomers tumble and artists build the most amazing follies out of scrap and left-over timber. It is a magical realm of possibility and fantasy. And occasionally they let the public in…. It......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th July 1968: The Hayward art gallery on the South Bank is opened by the Queen. Tuesday – 10th July 1958: Britain’s first parking meters are installed in Mayfair. Soon there would be 625 of them in the district, charging 6 pence per hour. Wednesday – 11th July 1848: Waterloo Station is opened. The original station would survive just 52 years until 1900, when it would be......

There's been whispers round Hoxton parts recently of a new night that's not like the rest. Forgot the usual posters and socialites Ghost School has taken over the Macbeth once an month declaring "We love arty rockers with electric guitars, twee freaks with knitted agendas, gay geeks with scuffed shoes, and party poppers who love their liquor. " Sound good? We caught up with the DJs behind the club ahead of this Thursday's party!......

Architecture Week starts tomorrow and we don't know where to start. All things architectural get a week to shine across the country for this week and London, which has the shiniest of shiny buildings has a particularly packed schedule. The website has the full programme and a handy itinerary compiler but there's at least one thing we wanted to tell you about as things kick off. It's the live broadcast of sound of Yorkshire......

We have to admit when we first saw this advertised we didn't have much of an idea what to expect. Henry VIII certainly knew how to cut it with the ladies, but we reckoned that a re-enactment of His Majesty's finest chat-up lines was unlikely, particularly in the middle of a river. It turns out that the Tudor Pull is run by the Thames Traditional Rowing Association and features crews of six oarsmen rowing......

A trackside fire in Bermondsey this morning has led to the closure of London Bridge station with Southeastern, Southern and First Capital Connect services to London Bridge, Cannon Street, Charing Cross and Waterloo East affected. The station will remain closed until at least 7pm this evening although London Bridge tube is still open. Additionally road closures are in place at Blue Anchor Lane, Rockgrove Way, Southwark Park Road, Lucey Way, St James' Road, Jamaica Road.......

Some idiots queued for five hours to get a £5 designer carrier bag from Sainsburys. We've always thought that there aren't half enough pavillions in London. So it is with great pleasure that we tell you that one that looks like a spinning top is being erected next to the Serpentine Gallery. London Buses are running over everyone. Deptford blew up so there will be delays if your train involves London Bridge. Image courtesy......

Fancy entering Spring in weird and strange mode? Looking for a different way to spend the glorious Easter weekend? Like the idea of a browsing round a live tattooing, exploring unseen parts of the London Bridge vaults and witnessing a live video installation unroll on a naked body? Maybe you’ve got spring fever and, frankly, need help or maybe you’re due a visit to SPILL, a brand new festival of experimental theatre and performance......

We heard there'd been a slump in the markets. We didn't think things were this bad. The financial times, forced to hawk batteries on the streets of London Bridge. Shocking. Photo by M@.......

We pride ourselves at Londonist in being able to bring you, sometimes before anyone else jumps on the bandwagon, the more exciting stuff to see in unexpected parts of London. Promenade performances in abandoned warehouses, improvised Eastern European theatre in old abbatoirs. Robots, dancers and wired up sci-fi violins in St Bart's Great Hall. Um... well, how about this? Glassbody: A performance installation in the atrium of Guy's Hospital that involves obstetrics ultrasound technology.......

Great Alexander Wept, And Made Sad Mone, Because There Was But One World To Be Wonne... Having conquered all those within his borders Ken is now looking off the map to see what new dogs can be crushed under his iron heel: Rail commuters outside London face having their fares and services dictated by Ken Livingstone, the capital’s mayor, under proposals drawn up by the Government. The Department for Transport is expected to announce......