To round up the weekend here's some of our Flickr friends' shots of Chinese New year celebrations around town. From the parade on the Strand courtesy of CdL Creative's Flickrstream. I can see you.... courtesy of magda:)'s Flickrstream. RDFZ dance troupe perform in the Great Court, British Museum courtesy of McTumshie's Flickrstream.......

The Chinese New Year Celebrations in Soho are undoubtedly one of the highspots of London’s cultural calendar, and this year there’s a load of extra stuff (some would say hype) going on ‘cos of the Beijing/London Olympic connection. Last year’s ceremonies were the biggest outside China, and this year’s look set to be even more impressive. So here’s a special Londonist round up of where to see and what to do…. 6th February: kick......

Ever controversial, the Stop and Search policy looks set to be reintroduced. Mugged cyclist says yah-boo-sucks to her attackers. Beadle’s not about any more. Say what you will, he made this Londonist smile. Hungry hoodies' Hawaiian heist. (Actually, it may have been a Napoli with extra chillies for all we know – what price alliteration?) Police raids in Edmonton and Peckham round up people smugglers. And people. We-really-shouldn’t-blog-when-we’re-hungry piccie courtesy of mmmmichie’s flickr photo......

Will London see snow this Christmas? With the big day just over a week away, we’re into that sweet spot of UK weather prediction somewhere between educated guess and wild speculation. What better time, then, to round up some of forecasters’ mulled wine-fuelled stabs in the dark? Unfortunately for those who like a bit of the white stuff on Christmas (insert Winehouse joke here), meteorologists seem to be in a pessimistic mood this year,......

If Londonist were really rich we'd be out every night doing LOADS of fun stuff. We'd be going to see all of the cool things at London Design Festival. We'd be drinking beer out of plastic cups and dancing at the Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly gig. But we're not. Instead all our money goes on rubbish stupid bills and... actually not much else. So here's what we're going to do instead. Here's a......

This week: my thoughts on the Glastonbury hoo-hah plus a quick round up of forthcoming London music festivals for every budget I was supposed to be meeting up with a friend this morning to have breakfast and catch up but got blown out because she wanted to stay home on the internet trying to get Glastonbury tickets. I'm fine with that, after all I understand how important it is to get tickets to see......

If you haven't been able to make it to the Tate Modern since they installed those awesome slides, or if the queues are just too long, or you suffer from a phobia of slides (is there a word for that?) then let us placate your appetite for slidey fun action with a little round up of the best YouTube has to offer on the subject... Quick and screamy: Long and juddery: More after the jump.........

Following on from our post about the Shard and yesterday’s post on what we’ve childishly rechristened the Beat-ham Tower, here’s a quick round up of other recent skyscraper developments. Willis Building (125 m): Unless you work in or regularly visit the City, you might not even be aware that the City’s fourth tallest building has just topped out. The Willis Building, next to Lloyds on Lime Street, now stands at its full height, and......

It's been a good week for pissing off the neighbours. Firstly it was a couple of ickle pussy cats in Camberwell, now it's the thought of thousands of James Blunt fans roaming endlessly across London's green and pleasant spaces, high on spritzers and Sainsburys' bacon crunchies. Let's face it, London isn't Worthy Farm, probably looked a bit like it once, but isn't likely to do so again (unless TMFB has his way). So if......

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 No ‘Event of the Week’ in today’s listings. Sorry. Two reasons. (1) Nothing really catches the eye this week (the big event - Richard Dawkins talking about The Selfish Gene 30 Years On - is sold out). (2) This Londonista is getting married in a few days and, frankly,......

Channel 4 is going mad for the cock this week - more so than usual, even. We hope Armin Meiwes is tuning in from his prison cell - in between trying to sue Rammstein, that is. Es ist mein Teil, but a man's relationship with his dick isn't as straightforward as all that, or so TV Troll understands. 4's willy strand will explore the conflicting emotions that arise (aha ha ha) from this tricky......

We just have time, before heading up to Islington this evening, to bring you a quick round up of some recommended gigs for the week ahead. If you're yet to make plans for this evening, then we suggest you follow us up to the Bar Academy to catch the wonderful Four Day Hombre. The album turned up in the post the other day and we'll bring you a review of that and tonight's gig......

Tony says it's business as usual and we ALWAYS do what Tony tells us so brace yourselves for a thick string of links. 'Blogosphere' is a horrible word. 'Blog' was bad enough, but like Sloth in The Goonies we overlook the ugliness and concentrate on the Superman shirt beneath. 'Blogosphere' however has no redeeming qualities. We've used it just the once to help name our weekly round up of London Blogs along with Blogorama......

We're doing the movie round up early today because obviously the Sun is going to devour the Earth sometime around 2pm. Someone should really send a team of scientists up there to sort that fiery thing out. We try our best to be ahead of the pack and today we can put our feet up and skim read all the reviews of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle with a very self-satisfied "Oh we saw......

Another Wednesday, and another salvo fired in the war between those who say 'Midweek' is one word and those who say 'Mid Week' is two words. (Don't even get us started on the 'it's hyphenated' brigade.) In this week's round up: Grass, Death, Folk and Scandinavians. Pick of the gigs in the not-quite spam we received in our inbox is next Monday's gig at Koko: Supergrass, supported by Thirteen Senses, are playing as part of......

If you haven't seen it yet, here is the first Fathers 4 Justice story of the year. Eleven of them broke into the Big Brother 'compound' in the early hours of this morning and threw some fireworks. They didn't (unfortunately?) get into the house, It took twelve police officers and a police helicopter with heat-seeking equipment to round up the men, three of whom have been arrested. The best bit of coverage comes, as......