Perhaps piqued that attraction upstart the London Bridge Experience is based in actual catacombs with genuine claims to hauntings and macabre discoveries - we know, we've spent the night there - the company behind the more established but less plague pit authentic London Dungeon across Tooley Street are taking the small fry to court for allegedly acting illegally by copying their attraction and driving away trade. Merlin Entertainment, the corporate behind the Dungeon, attempted......

An African Big Cat In London This weekend dear readers you are being offered a double dose of weirdness from the capital due to last week's mysterious missing episode... Today, we're back to strange exotic felids prowling the capital, after a report appeared on a cryptozoology-based website regarding an incident from 1995 pertaining to a very close encounter with a large, black leopard. Californian college student Matt Beloof was only twelve-years old at the......

‘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......

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......

Hooray! It's nearly Halloween! Jack-o-lanterns a plenty, scary masks and annoying trick or treaters who get hyped up on way too many e-numbers (and probably a few cans of cider nowadays). Still, there's so much stuff going on this year, you'd be a fool to stay inside hiding under your sofa this 31st October. It just wouldn't be Halloween without the Rocky Horror Show. So Everyman Cinema snapped up this spooky treat. Dress up,......

It's not everyday you come across a band with a name like Tits of Death, so it was about time we took 10 minutes with a band we'd formerly christened a ten-breasted rock machine. Playing Kinki at Madame Jo Jo's tomorrow night (Thursday), they've promised reduced guestlist to anyone emailing hello@titsofdeath.com with the subject line LONDONIST. Not only will you get to see this smokin' hot quintet but also electro-poppers Huski and the unbelievably......

We were just browsing around YouTube, as we do from time to time, when we came across something with the following description "This picture was taken in 2000 in London. The building was abandoned and there was nothing in the window but a mysterious mist at the time of the photo. What do YOU think it is?" We were expecting one of those 'look really close and then we'll freak you out with a truly......

Well, here we go again. The release of another instalment of video game ‘The Getaway’ has been announced by Sony. And this time, it’s portable The Getaway: Gangs of London is to be launched later this year on the PSP format. Flawed but fun, the earlier PS2 titles offered excellent opportunities for London-based mayhem. Forget about the creaky storyline. We’d make up our own missions, like ‘You must steal the tank, and shell your......

We pointed out on Monday that, as Londoners, it's very easy to ignore the very things that make the capital so special. While we sometimes get annoyed with the hoards of tourists who seem to be constantly underfoot, they get to experience a very different city from the one that we all too often take for granted. To try and rectify this we've been aiming to get out and about a bit more in......

Although moving around the tube network costs a small fortune with the recent price hike making ours probably the most expensive in the world it apparently takes only a few hundred quid to blow large chunks of it up: An investigation by the BBC World Service into the cost of the London bombings last July has revealed that they cost no more than several hundred pounds to carry out... Officers now believe that Mohammad......

Someone has nicked a pair of castrating tongs from the London Dungeon. Apparently the tools were stolen on Friday after a couple of actors put them to one side after carrying out a mock castration (another 'tool removal' then...sorry). Now why would anyone do that? Well, there are two theories: either they thought they were stealing a "a priceless antique"; or they're looking to remove someone's balls. Let's examine these hypotheses in detail shall......

There are lots of reasons to love London: the inbred Royal family caged away far from public gaze, the almost sexual excess shown in boarding rush hour tubes, the unpredictable weather that makes each and every day a bit of a gamble and of course all the wonderful tourists just waiting to be misdirected and laughed at for queuing up outside the rankest 'attraction' in the world - The London Dungeon. But the very......