Get you hence, sirrah! Saucy fellow, hence! A baby is kicked out of a charity shop in Enfield…for farting. How silver sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night/Like softest music to attending ears! Although actually the musical score of the new production of Gone with the Wind isn’t attracting huge amounts of praise. But they like Darius, so that’s OK then. Let Hercules do what he may,/The cat will mew and dog will have his......

London Book Fair may be the hottest ticket in town this week, but we've also delved deep to find a few other events worth the attention of the London lady or gent of letters. Monday: London Book Fair opens today at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, with the movers and shakers in publishing from across the world in attendance. There's far too much going on for the Grocer's quotidian basket to carry, so we suggest......

Residents vs. architects: Those who live in Robin Hood Gardens want the estate demolished, whilst architects fight to save “seminal” modernist buildings. Your daily crime round-up: “Osama bin London” jailed indefinitely; cleaner who killed 94-year-old widow jailed for life; financial trader denies involvement in murder of wealthy writer. We’re sensing a pattern here: Man scales Japanese embassy in London to protest Japanese whaling. Met to build firearms training centre near Heathrow; increased security concerns......

Pink parenting – a gay parent support group has been founded in East London. Olymponomics are starting to do our heads in – you decipher this for yourselves. Ken is backed by the left. Um, that’s meant to be news? Newly discovered DNA evidence may yet convict the Stephen Lawrence Five. Haringey council is in trouble after a bunch of confidential files were found dumped in a squat. The favourite tipples of the street......

Selfridges go that little bit further to draw in the crowds. There won’t be a criminal enquiry over Lee Jasper’s conduct. But we don’t think that this will be the last of it. Chelsea manager Avram Grant has received anti-semitic death threats. That’s just not football, now is it? Yikes! The £4.00 pint is on its way. You can check out the Brit award winners and losers here. Actually, the losers were all those......

Sickening news this morning that the aspirational Stephen Lawrence Centre, which only opened last week, had bricks thrown through its beautifully designed front windows this morning. It's shocking enough that there are are people out there who are so against a community centre designed and purpose-built to encourage young people, help them out of deprivation and foster better community relations that they feel the need to damage it. Shocking too that this act of......

The Stephen Lawrence Centre will be offically opened by the Mayor in Deptford today. In what is bound to an emotive event, the living memorial has been designed to reflect Stephen Lawrence's own aspirations to become an architect. Not only is it a handsome building but its in-house curriculum will provide education and outreach activities focused around design, architecture, science and engineering for 14-25 year olds living in poverty. It will encourage them to......

….you’re just pootling along the high street, minding your (or everybody else’s, if you’re a Londonist) business, when what do you espy? A piano. Just perched there on the pavement. You rub your eyes, and make a vow to cut back a bit on the old Lambrusco/JD/what you will. It cannot be. Ah, you think, it’s a practical joke: there’s a hidden camera somewhere…. Well, this slightly Python-esque scene is likely to be played......

Kind of. The Tricycle theatre is set to follow its stagings of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the Bloody Sunday hearings and the Hutton inquiry with a staged indictment of Tony Blair for a crime of aggression against Iraq. The real PM won't be present of course, but the lawyers, testimony and expert witnesses will be" The theatre will create the event itself and then use actors to stage a condensed version entitled The Indictment......

For four nights only, starting from tonight, the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn is presenting a series of short plays exploring the current situation in Darfur. How Long Is Never? Darfur - a Response features new work by Michael Bhim, Amy Evans, Jennifer Farmer, Carlo Gebler, Juliet Gilkes, Lynn Nottage, Winsome Pinnock. All seven are writers from the Tricycle Bloomberg Writers Group and each have a short play in this special event; each piece is......

Some crimes are more than just crimes - the Dreyfus affair is one example that comes readily to mind. In modern Britain, no murder has had more of an impact than that of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 (was it really 13 years ago already?), the black teenager killed by racists, whose murder triggered an inquiry that found institutionalised racism Stephen's murder will never really go away, but it is brought back into the spotlight......

Ken likes his conferences: just this week, he's hosting the Disability Capital Conference in Hammersmith and then on Saturday he's hosting the State of Race Relations in London Conference at his own pad in City Hall. Registration for the DisabilityCapital Conference has now closed but for those who still want to take part or cannot get to the Hammersmith venue, the conference will be broadcast on the Mayor of London website here - the......