In the words of The Smiths (we loosely paraphrase here:) Some towns modems are bigger than other towns modems. We think that's what Morrissey was singing, his cadence is a little hard to follow at times. Anyway, it seems the biggest broadband speeds in Britain are to be found in our ever-humble city. Yes, not only is London the all-conquering wi-fi capital of the world, but a survey for BBC News has revealed our......

This is what we have learned this weekend while you were out looking for snow… Brent Council are gonna get tough on non-recyclers. Fake voddy hits the home counties. Our Kate is battling to save Stepney’s George Tavern. Morrissey fans will have to wait a little longer. In court this weekend: people smugglers, a very greedy drugs baron, and prolific pickpocketers. Londonist reckons that they were all in it together. And this is what......

Morrissey starts the first of a string of six dates at the Roundhouse on Monday night, playing every night except Thursday until next Sunday. As you'd expect, tickets are all gone, but you may be able to find a few last minute spares floating around. Londonist favourites Sons and Daughters play The End's first Birthday, and Stephen Fretwell plays his melodic melancholy at the Luminaire - a few tickets left at £12.50 from WeGotTickets......

Battersea Dogs and Cats Home are doing it again; tugging at our heartstrings with a soppy face, melting brown eyes, greying fur and eager to please expression... yes, it's Neil Morrissey - him of Men Behaving Badly infamy - fronting the dogs home's latest adopt a dog campaign. Morrissey led a mass dog walk at the weekend with his own cute rescue pup, Tiggy, to raise awareness of the tragic number of pooches that......

Apologies for the first-person perspective - normal service will resume after this post. About a year ago, Phil, a friend of mine, had a run-in with the British Transport Police over the use of a four-letter word - "shit" - when describing the accuracy or otherwise of a metal detector set up at Highbury & Islington station. I witnessed the whole thing and wrote about it on Londonist; the story was then picked up......

Tomorrow, the BBC announce the acts that will be in contention to represent the UK in Eurovision. Making Your Mind Up, the show, will be held sometime in the next few weeks. Whispers have been flying around for months about who'll be in the running, with some rumours hitting the headlines (yep, Morrissey), but as yet, nobody knows for sure. This year marks the UK's 50th Eurovision entry, as well as the 40th anniversary......

Eurovision Song Contest. Those three words have garnered so much undeserved scorn. And all because a bunch of singers representing countries come together on a big stage somewhere in Europe to sing some songs with poppy, up-beat melodies and sugary lyrics. What could be more fun? Hello. I'm Adrian, and I'm Londonist's shiny new Eurovision correspondent. I'm in love with Eurovision for its cheesy music, its wonderful sparkly spectacle, its joyous nationhood and its......

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend......

London Underground have let a Morrissey fan off a tube fine. The police have arrested a man who claimed to be able to bring about miracle births for kidnapping. Faster trains are on the way - the plan is that your journeys will be 30 minutes faster. And finally, don't go looking for free food after our tip yesterday Scott's have now got their trading licence and aren't afraid to use it! Photo taken......

A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 12. St Chad's Place Where? Dingy little dogleg behind King's Cross Thameslink. What? Ah, St Chad. You know, the brother of St Cedd and St Cynibild? Founder of the moanstery at Barrow-upon-Humber? Patron saint of rigged elections? No? Since ancient times, this spot contained a small, health-giving spring dedicated to the saint. St Chad's Well, was one of several ancient and important water supplies associated......

With no Glastonbury this year, and Reading not really offering anything inspired in the way of headliners the Londonist have shockingly been left feeling somewhat anti-UK for festivals this summer. Handily, as British music is still regarded as one of the coolest goddamn things out there, we can visit the world but still hear the sounds of London (and everywhere else!) resonating. We'll be going into these with more depth in the next few......

While we're on the subject of unusual pairings (see The Hoff and Bobby Davro below) we should mention the fact that Elton John and Freddie Flintoff are rumoured to be planning a duet in Battersea Park this summer. We realise this sounds as unlikely as, say, the star of Baywatch popping up in Wimbledon dressed as a pirate but we assure you it's true (probably, the story is from the Daily Mail): England's man-of-the-series......

Guns. A big issue with our cousins across the pond. The 2nd Amendment to the constitution means that people can keep assault rifles at home, and with Bush and his cronies in the White House, it doesn't look like there will be any changes to the law anytime soon. American Liberals, however, are increasingly using the media to get across their simple and sensible message: Gun crime will not decrease unless gun laws are......

Poor puns aside, it's still worth getting reasonably excited about the idea of seeing a band of the stature of Franz Ferdinand for free in a venue the size of Koko. Although we're not sure which Koko Virgin meant when they announced a series of performances at the 300-capacity Koko Venue in Camden as part of Channel Four's new abum show. According to Koko's own site they can hold 1500 hardy punters. That is......

Some of the people who were present at the protests at the Danish Embassy last month will be arrested 'in the near future' the Crown Prosecution Service has said. Passengers on a flight from London to Gothenburg were held at gunpoint when they reached Landvetter airport yesterday, while two masked men robbed the plane of a large sum of foreign currency. Police are appealing for witnesses to the fatal shooting of a man, 20, and......

The BBC are reporting that Jack Wild, Londonist's favourite Artful Dodger, has died. Wild was nominated for an Oscar when he was just 16 for his role in the movie. He suffered from mouth cancer and had his voice box and tongue removed. Wild's agent Alex Jay said the actor "died peacefully at midnight last night after a long battle with oral cancer". The last thing we remember seeing him in was Kevin Costner's......

Henry Rollins will be rolling into town again next month for one of his annual spoken word gigs - at least we hope he will, because whether he gets here may well be down to what reading material he decides to bring with him. His choice of in-flight read caused a ridiculous kafuffle when he recently travelled from New Zealand to Australia. It turns out that a fellow passenger objected to Rollins reading Ahmed......

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the London Palladium was a source of comedy, dance and variety, hosting mainly the ITV variety show Sunday Night At the London Palladium. Over the last few years, it became the home of various very creepy looking 'child-catchers' such as Wayne Sleep and Stephen Gately, as the stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took over. At the moment, Tommy Steele is strutting his stuff in a christmas season......

Photograph based on actual events. These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event Of The Week Beautiful Minds Mingle at the British Library ‘Cuddle a chemist and see the reaction.’ Remember that? If you’re of a certain vintage, you might recall this somewhat ill-advised campaign by a well-known chemistry society. The aim was to coax youngsters......

Screw dressing up as Santa this Christmas. If you're looking for where the real money is and you're not afraid of dressing up then you want to get yourself down to the Bob the Builder auditions taking place in a couple of weeks. According to the Sun "TV bosses are holding auditions to find a Bob the Builder lookalike. The winner will star in a Christmas promotional campaign for new Bob toys and a......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Yes, there is a new novel out by Nadine Gordimer this week (along with a serious slew of others). But early reports are leading us to believe that the real star of the new releases is The Possibillity of an Island, by the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq (pictured). Once you get past the......

In 2003 it was Lee Scratch Perry, and in 2004 Morrissey decided to come out of hiding to do it, so everyone was pretty excited to see who was going to be curating this year's Meltdown festival at the Royal Festival Hall. And we haven't been disappointed. For 2005 the RFH have managed to draw out another famously reclusive rock icon: Patti Smith. The Guardian reported yesterday that "the godmother of punk rock" will......