In a wide-ranging interview on Monday, Time Out founder and publisher Tony Elliot revealed that the magazine could become a freesheet. Speaking to Media Guardian, Elliot suggested the weekly listings title is considering reducing the print edition to a slim, freely distributed edition and moving the bulk of its content online. While Time Out may be less essential than during its rabble-rousing heyday (currently celebrated in an exhibition in the Museum of London's foyer), the......

Remember the days when you got your London news, culture and stories fix from words printed on actual paper? Well, this is a quick reminder that you have the opportunity to sample the finest in London's independent magazine scene this Saturday between 11am - 5pm at Hays Galleria, London Bridge. As featured in the Book Grocer, London Magtastic is hosted by our friends at One Eye Grey and a whole host of fantastic London......

Science, the esteemed global magazine of cutting-edge research, has an unlikely cover star this week. Banksy’s Bethnal Green flower adorns the hallowed page with the following explanation: An example of "art" by self-styled guerrilla artist Banksy, as seen in East London in November 2007. Human behavior that would be characterized as antisocial punishment can also be called art; prosocial institutions, most notably the campaign Keep Britain Tidy, refer to Banksy's work as vandalism. Odd......

Residents of Stoke Newington, you should be proud. Local proprietor Kirit Ved is flying the Stokey flag all the way up in Birmingham where, at a glittering ceremony, he has just been named Independent Newsagent of the Year 2007. VED News, on Church Street in N16, was singled out by the judges for its impressive range of newspapers and magazines from around the globe. Reflecting Hackney's polyglot populace, Mr. Ved stocks titles from the......

Months of research and workshops run by writer Justin Young and director Suzanne Gorman have created Moonwalking In Chinatown, an extraordinary walkabout performance which leads audiences through Chinatown in the dusk behind bobbing paper lanterns and a variety of actors and stewards. Four overlapping stories for four simultaneous groups, each led by a different coloured lantern, have to weave through the early evening Soho crowds. The range of characters and multiple storylines and also......

We talk about festivals all the time here on Londonist: food festivals, theatre festivals, religious festivals, dance festivals... we can't help it. London is a festive place. The latest festival that we bring to you today is the London Design Festival, starting this Saturday and lasting for ten full days of talks, exhibitions, parties, books, magazines, tours, walks and... stuff. This is the fifth year for the festival and it just keeps getting bigger......

Transport for London thinks Londoners are lazy. They're suggesting that Londoners start adding at least 2 kilometres walking each day to their journeys, rather than driving or taking the tube or bus. While we suspect they may have ulterior motives in suggesting this (perhaps reducing the strain on London's transport system?), it's actually not a bad idea. After all, it's recommended that we walk 10,000 steps per day, and walking an extra 2km every......

Hey, check me out - I've got my own account for the Londonist blogging software! Look, my name's at the bottom and everything! This level of trust is genuinely almost too much for me to handle. What if I accidentally reveal that the editor's a shoplifter, or I write something that offends all our readers with big, big chins? Also, I'm used to blogging using LiveJournal, a website renowned for angst and misery. So......

Hello mum! I'm Chris, a stand-up comedian. I'll be blogging once a week about fun or interesting gigs I have, or just to give my opinions on the London comedy scene. As it happens, I'm very good at opinions. I've got at least three at the moment, and I'm hoping to have a couple more by the end of the year. If you enjoy my column, why not try making a game out of......

At the turn of the millennium, the ‘beast’ of Bexley was born, a headline created by the London press. It was an inaccuracy, a contradiction and a conundrum. A large, seemingly exotic cat fuelled the imagination of the public, evaded the pursuing police, and stirred the sceptics. Something from legend prowling the open spaces, the back gardens of this bustling city? Surely not! However, the sceptics, the press and the police were completely wrong......

Located on Westminster Bridge Road, The Feminist Library has existed in a state of constant emergency for a number of years now. Recent rent hikes have finally delivered a possible death blow, but the volunteers and members of the management committee are not going down without a fight: Despite the efforts of a number of dedicated volunteers, and a change in management, the library has not been able to get itself out of the......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......

Launching this Thursday is a sparkling new free weekly email magazine featuring all the essential events, bars, restaurants and clubs around the city. Subscribers to le cool London can make the most of the positive and useful content that is promised; we like the fact that in a city that moves so fast, this friendly weekly email wastes no time whining about the poor service in a place every other weekly guide has hyped......

Well, London Fashion Week begins today and the first story of the week isn't the usual Is London still fashionable nonsense, but something slightly less shallow: thin models. On one side you've got Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, who wants the LFW organisers to ban what she calls "stick-thin" models from its catwalks. And on the other side you've got the British Fashion Council who run the whole shebang, saying that it's not their place......

Glasgow was last night named as the UK's top tourist city destination in a survey by one of the world's most exclusive travel magazines, toppling last year's winner, our very own London town. The title is awarded by readers of Traveller, the US holiday guide for the rich and famous produced by Conde Nast. In second came Edinburgh while London fell to third. In fourth came Newcastle (America's rich and famous.... holidaying in Newcastle?)......

Following Thursday's police action, "security at all UK airports has been increased and additional security measures have been put in place for all flights, report the BBC. The Department of Transport has issued new guidelines for everyone travelling from UK airports, effective immediately. All luggage must be put in the hold and no hand luggage is allowed except for a single transparent carrier bag which can only contain the following items: Pocket-size wallets and......

Ok, that's not the most thrilling of headlines, but if you care about libraries (and we do care about them at Londonist) then it's actually quite an achievement, especially (as the Guardian reports today) this "Victorian public library...is being seen as the last best hope of stopping Britain's 154-year tradition of free libraries from becoming extinct." So what we've got is a £80k makeover designed to make the library a "model of a future......

This post is written from a personal point of view, eschewing the Ist 'We' for once, because it expresses what is most decidedly a minority view within the Londonist camp. I disagree entirely with what Alex wrote below; here's why ... Confession time: I'm a lapsed boatie. I still have the calluses - they never go away - and the drawer-full of self-designed t-shirts - complete with "hilarious" nicknames - to prove it. Why......

And so it was decreed that on the 23rd day of January after having taken Christmas off to let the punters indulge themselves in X-Factor winners and soft rock compilation albums, proper music would rise again from the ashes of the yule fireplace, shake out it's lurid feathers and start rocking. Should we read today then as an omen for what's to come? Who cares. First up (in true bad punning style) it's Ricky......

We used to read about the African Cup of Nations, more so in geeky football magazines such as 'World Soccer and less so in the scant coverage that it usually receives in the nationals, but until Mrs Londonist purchased Sky last year as a birthday present (pity the woman, for she knows not what she has unleashed), we've never actually been able to watch it. Now we can. And it's really rather good. Coverage......

A London plumber has been charged under the Terrorism Act after being found in posession of "three Uzis, 3,000 rounds of ammunition, three silencers and nine magazines." The Eminem karaoke murderer, Christopher Duncan, has been sentenced to life for the murder of 26-year-old law student Jagdip Najran. London's knife crackdown (also known as Operation Blunt) begins today. The producers of Edward Scissorhands are thought to be worried. GB's failure to include funding for athletes......

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......

Found Magazine is itself a real find: it's a collection of the poignant, funny, frightening and just outright odd bits and pieces of paper that slip through life's cracks. As the website says: We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life. Anything goes... There's a voyeuristic thrill to be had browsing Found......

What is a curiosity shop exactly? Well for us here at Londonist we think of a curiosity shop as containing all the mysterious joy of a junk shop with all the otherworldy mystique of an exotic antiques emporium. By rights London should be full of these kinds of places. As it is, we're stuck with a bunch of dusty, cardigan-wearing Antiques Roadshow wannabes who think that anyone under the age of fifty is a......

We like magazines. We like free things. So it stands to reason that we'd like free magazines. Or so you'd think. Ok, Vice was required reading for a while there, if only for the novelty value, but their conservative hipster schtick gets pretty old pretty fast (plus, if you don't subscribe you're are pressed to find the thing). Young pretender Good for Nothing was a little bit of a disappointment. There was no doubting......

What we need right now is something to take us back to a time when explosions were fun and the men that carried them out were rocket scientists and occultists. We first got interested in reading the book Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons when we saw it mentioned on the rather splendid Dark, But Shining. When it got picked up on Boing Boing we decided to get in......

Earlier this week, Londonist editors Euan and Rob were invited to participate in the Coral European Poker media event at the Gutshot club in East London. The game was Texas Hold ‘em, and there were about 30 players in the running. The prize was your name on a large ‘silver effect’ trophy and £500 to a charity of your choice. Now when they said ‘media’ what they actually meant was people who work for......

January is known for a lot of things: dieting, being skint, the sales, resolutions. But, in our hearts at least, there's one thing which really makes January, and that's partwork magazines. You know the kind of thing we mean. The magazines published by people like De Agostini, which have names like 'Japanese Trains' and 'Miniature Kitchens' and come with a free binder and a tube of glue. They're like crack these magazine. They give you......

Well, everybody else is doing it, so why can't we? Here we present Londonist's favourite music of 2004, along with pointers to other sites' lists. It might be worth bearing in mind if you're brave enough to visit the shops during the January Sales melee. Those of us who like to foist our tastes on our public should read this cautionary tale though: 'News for rock critics: no one is listening to you' Londonist -......