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Reality TV: Not quite the white-hot topic it maybe was a few months ago at the height of Shilpagate but still newsworthy, if you’re a lazy newspaper editor with a comment space to be filled, anyway. What can there possibly be new to say on …

Who would have thought it, but hey look! The London International Mime Festival is back – for the 29th time. Mime is perhaps the wrong word for what looks like a very experimental festival – there is a distinct lack of white painted faces, gloves …

London’s ‘most prolific burglar’ has been locked up for seven years. How prolific you ask? 2,646 burglaries. London’s allotments are being misplaced at an alarming rate. London is the most expensive city in Europe when it comes to hotel internet access. Jamie Hewlett’s huge murals …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back …

Another bumper crop of things to do and see this weekend, in particular all the Big Dance events taking place around town – more details here. But for the non-dance related things to see and do, the Culture Crawl starts here… Friday 21 July 1001 …

Well, once we’ve recovered from the excesses of the Chap Olympics, we shall be embarking on the next part of this week’s Cultural Crawl. There’s so much to see, so much to do, the sun is out and anyway, sleep is for the weak… get …

Ahead of Architecture Week the Beeb have compiled a shortlist of the public’s most hated London buildings, and it’s a slightly surprising list: The pre-fabricated, pre-cast concrete Centrepoint   The tower at Colliers Wood     The Swiss Re headquarters – better known as the …