Fashion v Sport kicks off this week's cultural contributions, opening today at the V&A. Don your favourite shellsuit and examine the unique relationship between fashion and sport (is the missing link money?). Theatrically speaking, there's masses of exciting new stuff to choose from this week. Risk a dramatic shower tomorrow as Timon of Athens opens at the Globe, and the lovely Topol starts crooning his way through Gigi in Regent's Park. If you'd rather......

If you enjoyed lazing about and listening to music in Regent's Park this weekend at the Innocent Village Fete, then fear not - more music is hitting the greenest patch in NW1 very soon in the form of Big Wheel Sundays. Back for a 2nd year these Sunday evenings take place at the lush Open Air Theatre and allow you to laze about from 6pm with a picnic on the lawn, or the indulgence......

A mixture of sunshine and rain helped this weekend's Innocent Village Fete go off with a smile in Regent's Park. A mixture of music, welly wanging and human smoothies, this was how you enjoyed it. Photos used under creative comments license from the flickr streams of feline bird, Annie Mole, Stuart Hedges and Rachel C.......

Sure Wimbledon's started, but what if you couldn't give two hoots about tennis? Here's our round-up of what you should be getting excited about among London's cornucopia of current cultural offerings. Who needs tennis? What you really need is some swashbuckling flamenco swordfighting action with a Gipsy Kings soundtrack, right? Well, thank goodness for Zorro: The Musical, previewing from Monday at the Garrick. We can't help thinking it'll feel a little flat without a certain......

As gorgeous as yesterday was, Taste of London presented a good excuse to forage through a marquee-laden Regent’s Park with friends. However, despite the pleasant weather, ToL would have hardly been categorized as a value for money outing. In a way, the event was comparable to a stroll through an alfresco version of the high end aisles of Sainsbury’s or Waitrose, which wouldn’t necessarily be an unpleasant activity but hardly one that attendees should......

Ken Livingstone has officially launched a program to help London become the greenest place to film in the world. Not *that* kind of green - we're not going to see Regents Park stand in for the Amazon Basin anytime soon. We're talking the other green. The one we got all excited about yesterday. Y'know, the environmental one. 'Green Screen London' is a series of initiatives aiming to make our film and television industry the......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 14th January 1437: The Great Stone Gate at the south side of London Bridge collapses, taking down two bridge arches and several houses with it. Tuesday – 15th January 1867: The ice on Regent’s Park Lake gives way while hundreds of people are skating on it. Dozens drown. Wednesday – 16th January 1599: Poet Laureate Edmund Spenser is buried in Westminster. His coffin is borne by other......

There. We’ve come out and said it. When did you last go to the zoo? Our zoo, I mean. You know, the one in Regents Park. The one you got dragged to thrice as a child. We can bet that most of you haven’t been much since then, if at all. Now London Zoo may not be the world’s oldest, or biggest, but it is one of the most highly respected, and the Zoological Society......

England's volleyball officianados are not allowing the capital's lack of any beach worth lazing on to get in the way of bringing to town the spectacle considered by many to be more appropriately featured in the opening shots of a CSI: Miami episode than the Olympics. The Hub in Regents Park's north west corner is the setting for the Volleyball England Beach Tour that started yesterday with an Open tournament which concludes today, Sunday......

Huge hangover? Spent all of your money? Yep, us too. So we can't go and watch Barbara Streisand (though we don't think we'll ever be that rich) and we can't go and see Elling. But, here's a few things you can do this week to make things a little easier on your pocket. Monday: Been a while since you've seen a good film? Then the Canary Wharf Summer Series at Canada Square park should......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 16th July 1924: Crowds of photographers, reporters and ‘autograph seekers’ greet the pilots of the first (successful) round-the-world flight as it landed at Croydon airport for its London stopover. Tuesday – 17th July 1974: A bomb explodes in a tourist-packed room of the Tower of London, killing one person and injuring 41 others. No-one claims responsibility for the bombing, and no culprits are found. Wednesday – 18th......

If you hadn't noticed, we've been having a love affair with this city since we can remember. Hackney cabs, bagels at four in the morning, grumpy commuters, all night clubbing. It seems nothing is missing. Except maybe one thing: the countryside. It sounds strange, but sometimes it's OK to miss all things green and the sound of a cow. The smell of them sometimes too (alright, maybe not). So next month, those wonderful people......

We do, don’t we? We really do. Well, from Sunday you can show you really care by paying some attention to London Sustainability Weeks which runs from 3–17 June. Kicking off this Sunday at the Camden Green Fair and Bikefest, there are hundreds of events happening across the capital varying hugely in size, message and concept. What all have in common is that they are helping to make a cleaner, greener, healthier London. We......

The first rule about East End Brawl Club is... Drunk man ends up on church roof. No, it wasn't the Bishop of Southwark. Tina Turner to perform at the Natural History Museum. Can anyone think of a gag here, cos we're really scratching our heads. Bungle leaves council with four members (headline unconnected with the camp bear from Rainbow) Tehran gets fleet of London tour buses. Image of Regents Park bandstand courtesy of Baroness......

Strange, doggy deeds are afoot in Regents Park. Leave us a caption to describe the scene. Image taken from p2wy's Flickr photostream. If you've got an unusual image of the capital that you'd like us to consider for this slot, either upload to Flickr and tag it Londonist, or email to londonist - at - gmail - dot - com......

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world created, like all the best things, by amateur enthusiasts. Farting in the general direction of professional mappers, these collaborative cartographers prowl the streets collecting GPS data and building up their wiki-based map. We caught up with charter-in-chief Steve Coast, to find out why they're bothering. So what's it all about? OpenStreetMap exists because map data is very expensive in the UK. It's owned by a monopoly provider......

Following the BBC new story “scare” scandal of London Zoo’s too easily leapable perimeter fence they now bring to light a year old report that points out Chessington Zoo just hasn’t got round to building the new 22 acre enclosure promised to their gorillas back in 2003. London Zoo, in smug contrast, had the right royal opening of their flagship “Gorilla Kingdom” at the end of March. So, whilst Londoners Zaire, Bobby and Effie......

Further evidence of a decline in London's bird population was published yesterday. It seems mild winters are attracting birds towards the bountiful treats of the countryside and away from our gardens. A secondary factor is the rise in nest prices, with a typical urban perch now beyond the budget of the average first-time flyer. The results are presented in the RSPB's Big Garden Bird Watch (is the focus here on big gardens or big......

In a piece of late Friday afternoon no-newsness yesterday the BBC reported the terrifying findings of a Defra security inspection of London Zoo: "Tigers and lions kept at the zoo could leap over the 6ft-high perimeter fence if they escaped from their enclosures." Argh! Forget the BoB. This is where this shit gets real. Lions and tigers (and bears)… loose in Regents Park…. Oh my! Of course, the ‘could’ and the ‘if’ and the......

Of course while some of us complained about the snow (or stayed at home) others just grabbed their boards and made the most of it before the commute: And here is a tube driver explaining just what went wrong this morning. More snowboarding was captured by the Associated Press as Jamin Piggott, from New Zealand, snowboards at Stansted Airport after his flight for a skiing holiday was cancelled and Madame Tussauds sculptor Roger McKay puts......

This Day In London's History 1874: An almighty explosion in Regents Park And a chance to quote from 'The London Collection'. Written by Londonistas and out now! ...the animals of London Zoo were rudely awoken by the most powerful explosion ever recorded in the capital up to that point. For reasons never fully explained, a barge laden with gunpowder and petroleum had detonated beneath Macclesfield Bridge – one of the northern entrances to Regents......

This day in London’s History 1703: Daniel Defoe is ordered to stand for three days in the pillory (a kind of hardcore version of the ‘stocks’) for taking the piss out of the government and the church. Good man. His satirical pamphlet ‘The Shortest Way With Dissenters’ was judged a little close to the bone. (Unless you’re a fan of ironical observations on non-conformity under the reign of Queen Anne, you probably don't want......

Can't wait 'till next Friday for the real thing to start? Then get yourself along to Regents Park this weekend and watch the countries of the world unite in a festival of UK amateur football modelled on FIFA's big event which will see last year's winners, Ghana, defend their Inner City World Cup title. The competition is the centrepiece of the annual Lovefootball festival held this year at the park's new sports complex, the......

Who do you think will win then, Badger or Michelle? We'll find out who Sir Alan Sugar will be poking his digit at for the last time tonight at 9pm on BBC 2, as the second series of The Apprentice reaches it's conclusion. London's representative in the series (Ansell grew up sarf of the rivah, but has since decamped to 'London-on-sea') crashed out in episode 4, after a nasty experience with chickens, pizza and......

An interesting press release pinged into our inbox 'tother day regarding Fear And Loathing In Crouch End (Today 2.15pm Radio 4), a Radio 4 Afternoon Play about the latest chi-chi must-have accessory: Eastern European au pairs. From the press release: Eighteen year-old Estonian student Monika Kass is just one of the 200,000 East Europeans who arrived in the UK this year. It’s her first visit abroad – and soon she’s on a head-on collision......

If there's one thing Londoners don't do enough of it's walking. Ok, so we're not quite at Los Angeles standards yet but (as Ken will no doubt tell you) a lot of us still rely too heavily on our cars and even getting the Tube means we don't get to see enough of the city itself. But help is at hand, because artist Francis Alys is a walking expert and lately he's been pounding......

One of the highlights of this Londonista's career to date was a somewhat short-lived summer job selling ice-pops outside the Rhino enclosure at London Zoo. Unfortunately it was an ill-fated affair that ended in disagreement over worker ice-pop consumption on the job. The leaving line of "But the Rhinos ate them" didn't really wash with the then Food and Beverage Manager. This experience, coupled with a secret and perhaps sick fascination with Disney's The......

The cricket season is pretty much over and winter will soon to be sending a nasty chill around your nether regions. That means no more staggering through Regents Park, pint in hand, watching the cricket, dressed in shorts and not much else until the beginning of August 2006 at least, and that's assuming we survive the World Cup with our livers intact. So Londonist was heartened to see the London College of Fashion had......

We haven't seen this surface anywhere else, but asharq alawsat ran a story over the weekend about a man bursting into the Regents Park mosque during Friday prayers and threatening to blow himself up: A number of worshipers on the upper floor who witnessed the suspect entering the mosque said he burst into the room and unzipped his trousers and shouted, "I am a Jew." They noted he was carrying a large backpack and......