There's masses going on for us culture vultures to choose from this week. First Thursdays As it's the start of March, it's First Thursdays this week. More than 80 galleries and museums will be open til 9pm across East London. We recommend John Squire's (yes, him from the Stone Roses) Re-engineered Garments; alternatively, pretend you're an alien at the Barbican. The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art opens this Thursday. East is East East London's......

It’s been another bruising week in the London mayoral election campaign. Eccentric Tory contender Boris Johnson may have had the best of it. On Tuesday Ken Livingstone announced that drivers of gas-guzzlers will be charged £25 to enter the Congestion Zone from October – assuming he’s re-elected. The Greens support the move, but the Lib Dems’ Brian Paddick – he’s the gay, “cannabis cop” from Brixton, you’ll recall – was critical, notably of the same......

QPR 1 Leyton Orient 2 Loftus Road Tuesday 14th August, 2007 It seems every time Londonist attends Loftus Road, the visitors score two. On Tuesday night John Gregory, manager of Championship side Queens Park Rangers, was left to rue the injuries, loan arrangements and appendix operations that left him with only one pair of fit strikers as his lacklustre charges struggled to chase a League Cup tie that visitors Leyton Orient, from the division......

On Tuesday, Londonist's favourite comedian, the brilliant if.comeddie best newcomer 2006 and Londonist interviewee Josie Long is taking a break from her current UK tour of last year's show, 'Kindness and Exuberance' and doing her first ever preview for her next Edinburgh show on Tuesday at a night called Everyone Just Wants To Be Happy at The Old Coffee House in Soho. We imagine that it'll be pretty ramshackle at this stage, but we......

And so West Ham finally decided to step off the Train to the Clouds and join the Polar Express instead. On Tuesday morning the club released a statement to the Stock Exchange "confirming acceptance from the major shareholders of an £85million offer" from an Icelandic consortium led by tabloid photographer's delight Eggert Magnusson and backed largely by funds emanating from his countryman Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson. Eggert is certainly saying all the right things: I am......

When are these pop stars going to learn not to mess with the awesome power of the ROCK? Ms Dynamite almost lived up to her name while filming some nonsense for a reality TV show when she was taken roughly from behind by AC/DC: Fellow contestant Brian Johnson, of rock group AC/DC, clipped the back of her car at Silverstone, in Northants, sending it spinning out of control... A Sky One spokesman said the......

Jeremy Clarkson is easy to dislike - we've used his snarling image for just about every congestion charge/traffic related post on Londonist - but he's also funny from time to time. Top Gear is hard to stomach unless you live in the fantasy land of wanting to own a new car every fortnight or get a thrill from the idea of standing in a garage looking at Clarkson's jean clad backside, but we're happy......

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 Carnal Knowledge at the Dana Centre, tonight We’ve seen innumerable attempts to make science sexy, but this one really does take the sticky biscuit. Does the G-spot exist? If so, where is it? Can vibrators beat the blues? Join the sexperts and test your carnal......

Normally when Londonist goes stalking, it’s to track down connected works of art, or famous buildings by the same architect. But we decided to take the word ‘stalk’ back to its hunting routes this week. Prompted by the news that the Beast of Bexley has at last been photographed, we thought we should go and bag ourselves a wild cat. Big cat sightings are not unusual in the UK. Although their existence in the......

After some good feedback on last week’s debutant listings, we’ve decided to make this a weekly slot, every Wednesday. If you know of any exciting sci-tech events over the coming week that we’ve missed, please let us know through the comments or by e-mailing the usual address. Meanwhile, enjoy this cartoon. Event Of The Week Our knowledge of environments on other planets is increasing every year. Just in the past 12 months, we’ve had......

As pop pundits continue to get things wrong by consistently voting OK Computer, Pet Sounds or Something by the Beatles as the best album of all time we all know that Jeff Wayne's epic musical War Of The World's is in fact the greatest thing ever laid down on vinyl. Or even cd, but the booklet with the black plastic version rocked big time. So how excited were we to hear that he's taking......

If you thought the stereotype of the fat, doughnut-eating copper was particular to just the States and The Fast Show, then think again. On Tuesday eight police officers at the South Norwood police station had to call for help after they overloaded the station's lift. Apparently the fire service received a call out at three in the morning and arrived at the station to find the gaggle (what is the collective noun for coppers?)......