It was New Year's Eve. You stood looking up into the sky as the fireworks faded and the boom and crack of them rang faintly in your ears. That was it, you thought. That's the last party until spring time. But you were wrong! Because in London, you can have New Year's celebrations several times over before the clocks go forwards, starting with the Russian 'Old New Year' in Trafalgar Square this Sunday! And......

January is a toughie. Torn between new year's virtue and that rebellious streak? Well, here are some things to amuse you that at least wont tug too hard at your purse strings. Monday: Witch hunts to start the week at Gresham College from 6pm. Free knowledge. Tuesday: Are you a tech geek? Are you interested in search engines, the internet and web technology? Do you need to make more friends? Well, pitch up for......

Yesterday we brought you news about the 'World In One City' project - two comedians, Alex Horne and Owen Powell, looking for Londoners from every country represented at the UN. We caught up with Alex and Owen to quiz them about their Herculean task. What is your challenge and what made you take it up? We hope to prove that London is the best city in the world. There are obviously many ways to......

Now, we realise we've already had a post about the Eurovision this week, and there's still 4 whole months to go before the actual contest, but we simply had to tell you about London's number one (or, probably, only) Eurovision night. The Retro Bar, off the Strand, is a delightfully lived-in gay bar playing rock and indie-pop music for a discerning crowd. That is, except for the second Thursday of every month when the......

Just when you thought you were done with Christmas and New Year celebrations, marking the end of the festivities by shredding your tree and wassailing your last wassails to the Green Man on 12th Night then along comes a few more New Year celebrations. It's the Russian Old New Year this weekend, by which we mean New Year according to the old Tsarist calendar which was abandoned after 1917. Still observed in Russia, the......

We don't know about you but we here at Londonist have always preferred the Tsarist calendar to the stuffy old Gregorian version. Not that we have any idea how the Tsarist calendar operates you understand, we just love it becasue it means we get to celebrate the Russian 'Old New Year', and that means borsch, vodka and...erm, the Russian hard rock scene. The second Russian Winter Festival takes place this Saturday in Trafalgar Square......

Well if the Russian Winter Festival in Trafalgar Square on Saturday tought us anything it's that maybe Trafalgar Square really isn't big enough to cater for anything which may attract more people than Ken Livingstone and his immediate family. OK, so we're exaggerating slightly, but it was packed by the time Londonist wandered down there at around 5ish on Saturday evening. Right from the National Gallery entrance down to the big old lions (nicely......

Don't forget that tomorrow is the Russian Winter Festival in Traflagar Square. Ken will be there around 12:30 for the opening ceremony (along with the Deputy Mayor of Moscow!) and for entertainment there's the brilliantly namesd Alexandrov Red Army Choir; the equally-brilliantly named Faizi Gaskarov Ensemble ("It is through dance that Bashkirians have always expressed their overwhelming joy in living and driven their pain and sorrow into the ground," apparently); and the even more-brilliantly......

The only bad thing about Christmas? It's just too damn short. Once Boxing Day's over you've only got the stress and ultimate anti-climax that is New Year to look forward to...and then it's back to work. We need more food, more alcohol, more singing and definitely a lot more dancing. Thank God then for the Russian Winter Festival. Taking place a whole two weeks after the New Year, the Russian Winter festival is the......