At a loose end? Want cheap beer? Wandering aimlessly around Mile End, or Hackney Wick (you can read Londonist on your mobile's browser after all)? Want to buy some art? If you can check any of these boxes, then you should head down to Decima Gallery's launch of Decima Editions, a new project selling artists' products and merchandise. By multiples they mean limited, and non limited edition. A wide range of people/art groups have......

Did you walk to work today? Members of the Londonist team managed it as did notable others: Londonista Hazel went in an efficient, no messing about straight line from East End to Farringdon, while, Londonista Dean took in a pastoral pre-work stroll along a north to south route. Did walking to work change their lives? What's it like on the streets at 8am? Will they want to do it again? Let's see... Londonista Hazel......

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Morgan Arms 43 Morgan Street, Bow, London E3 5AA Nearest Tube / Overground: Mile End / Bow Tel: 020 8980 6389 Expect to Pay: around £15 for massive main courses plus £4-8 for starters, £4-6 for dessert Rating: 9 out of 10 Sunday lunch at the Morgan Arms is like the fantasy version of a traditional family Sunday lunch:......

This Saturday London’s comic lovers can pop out to Mile End and discover what’s lurking in the UK’s small comics scene. The fifth year of the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing is happening at Queen Mary, and it should be a grab bag of indie delights. A look at the list of stuff on show reveals a pretty good menagerie: you can check out comics about friendly beavers, depressed dinosaurs, ninjas in various......

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......

Even with the spectre of hazardous drinking looming over us, pubs are still our favourite places to be, so we were delighted to be invited along to the Fancyapint.com London pub awards 2007. Fancyapint has awards in 2 categories. The reviewers' awards are based on their dedicated team's experiences over the year and a bewilderingly scientific system of tick boxes. The visitor awards are based on a not wholly scientific but ingenious manipulation of......

Cameras at the ready. It's time to get Green. That's the theme of the Shoot Photomonth's event being held this Saturday. But green what? Well, anything really. Traffic lights, jumpers, trees, jelly beans. Even the bit of mould you cut off the loaf of bread this morning. Just as long at it's green. Now you have to register for this event in advance which is why we're telling you about it now. But it's......

Face it, with the RMT tube strike, you're not getting anywhere on the underground this week. Unless you're going from somewhere like Camden to Canary Wharf and all of your lines are fine. In which case we're all a bit annoyed with you anyway so it's best to keep quiet about that. So what are you going to do? Well, there are loads of other ways to get across London. Hundreds. We know that......

Throughout July, London's comedy scene will be packed with comedians trying out new material to take to the Edinburgh Festival in August. It's the perfect time to see big name comics in small venues, for even smaller prices. Here's a list of shows to see each night for the next six days, with a mix of established acts and up-and-coming sketch troupes. Thursday 5th - Simon Amstell will be at the Arts Theatre, near......

Expect delays on the westbound Central Line after a train derailed between Mile End and Bethnal Green at approximately 9.15am. The Central Line is currently suspended between Leytonstone and Liverpool Street in both directions. The TFL website is just saying there is a "faulty train in the Mile End area" but we got the information on the derailment straight from the mouth of the driver of the train directly in front of the affected one,......

Sincerest apologies, dear readers. The author of this column (Column? Post?) has had a particularly trying week, what with almost getting fired from his high-pressure media sales job and also being asked to vacate the sofa near Highbury Corner he had been staying on since July. Now, we know, this is no excuse. Two posts in a fortnight is almost unforgivable. How much more trouble can he get in, do you wonder? Well, two......

Are you worried about the creeping loss of civil liberties in Britain? We are, having had our own run-in with heavy-handed police not so long ago. So when we received the following email, we thought it'd be a great idea to post it up here, in order that as many of you as possible might read it and with any luck decide to take part: A recent law has made it illegal to protest......

This day in London’s History 1381: Peasants’ Revolt reaches Blackheath. Wat Tyler, Jack Straw, John Bull and several thousand other aggrieved workers assembled on the great heathland south of Greenwich as a prelude to London’s biggest ever poll tax riot. The mob entered the city on the following day and began breaking things — Savoy Palace, John of Gaunt’s home, the Archbishop of Cantebury’s neck… The revolt was finally quashed a couple of days......

A while ago we decided we were going to tackle the problem of pub quizzes. Some are great, some are rubbish and some just are never advertised. So, we reviewed the Bedford in Balham and The Railway in West Hampstead and then, promptly forgot about the idea. But today the hankerchiefs can go away, don't fear Pub Quiz Patrol fans, for we are back! Hurrah! And the dubious honour of review number 3 goes......

Tube union ASLEF have suspended the strike planned for next week after progress was made in talks with London Underground. In response to the report on London's governance being 'too complicated' Ken has said he wnats further devolution of power and to help "all London's residents share in the city's prosperity by equipping them with the skills they need to fill the coming job opportunities." The whole Bond/Menezes storyline thing has now erupted into a......

Londonist was in Mile End last Thursday, attending Alan Rusbridger's inaugral lecture as the new Hugo Young Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. The subject of The Guardian editor's lecture, organised by a group of history postgraduate students, was 'Weblogs vs Journalism: The Future of Newspapers' and as you would perhaps expect, the delivery was sharp, erudite and at times, rather funny. Rusbridger's premise was that in an era where newspapers across......

When we saw that Gothamist had a post up yesterday on a Wikipedia page listing all the songs about New York, we were initially filled with uncontrollable jealousy. Then we calmed down a bit and had a hunt round Wikipedia ourselves...and what do you know! Here's the exact same page but for songs about London. To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Mmmm, massive lists. It's a pretty extensive list but here's a few random ones that......

Tonight sees the launch of the Raindance East Film Festival at the Genesis Mile End with Danny Boyle's Millions: Eight-year-old Damian Cunningham is almost killed by an enormous bag of cash that falls from the sky. It’s all sterling, and as Britain is converting to the Euro in just twelve days’ time, he needs to spend it quick. Damian believes that the money was sent from God (who else would have that kind of......

We all knew that Bethnal Green was going to be one of the real 'battle grounds' of this year's election, but we meant it in the usual election cliche kind of way, not in the 'actual threat of real violence' kind of way it's turned into. As you've probably read by now, George Galloway was threatened with violence last night at a Stepney council estate, after up to 30 Asian men starting shouting abuse"......

"A pregnant teenager was hurt when an axe fight broke out on a rush hour Tube train..." That almost made us spill our coffee too. Apparently the train wasn't moving at the time when a fight spilled over from the platform at Mile End according to The Scotsman. The hurt girl was cut by her boyfriend (accidentally we presume) and is not pressing charges after the kids were arrested on a bus outside. Not......

There are times in every Londonist’s life when we question our sanity, last evening one was of those evenings. In an attempt to broaden our cultural horizons, we attended the Second London Poetry Film Night (of sorts) in Mile End. We received the press release some weeks back, thought it sounded interesting, reserved tickets, and made the trek to Zone 2. Maybe we just didn’t “get it,” but the evening was one of the most......