London's Latin American community will descend on Trafalgar Square this Monday. As part of a protest that is stretching from Bogotá to cities across the world, they will be marching on the Great World Rally Against FARC. FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is a guerrilla Marxist group that has fought the Colombian government for over four decades, the longest insurgency in Latin America. Listed by the United States and the EU......

It's finally here! The Sweeney Todd movie opens today. We were so excited yesterday, though, that we took to the city streets with the fabulous free Sweeney Todd Soundmap in our ears. This movie themed walk starts at Temple tube and wends its way through the back alleys cutting across Fleet Street and leading you, of course, to the site of Mrs Lovett's pie shop, Sweeney's barbaric barber shop, St Dunstan's in the West,......

Pegasus in Inner Temple Hall We were right to get excited about this event. Not only did we finally learn the difference between a solicitor and a barrister and which Inn of Court bears which emblem (Pegasus for Inner Temple, lamb and flag for Middle Temple. Grays Inn has a gryffin and Lincolns Inn a heraldic symbol; somewhat spoiling the animal theme) but we also wandered through the 20 beautiful acres, marvelled at historic and......

We flagged this up in London On The Cheap but it's so good we're telling you again. The Temple is having an open weekend this weekend. Through a doorway off Fleet Street, the Temple is home to two of England’s four the Inns of Court; The Inner and Middle Temple, as well as Da Vinci Code tourist attraction, round Temple Church. It was home to the Knights Templar and is generally steeped in history,......

Two weeks into the New Year and it's important to find things to distract yourself from the grey weather, gym timetables, failing diets and attempts to avoid alcohol. If you're still feeling the pinch post festive season then we've got some excellently cheap things for you to do this week to cheer, edify, inspire and amuse you. Monday: Happy days! The Fonz will be at Forbidden Planet for a book signing between 5-6pm. It's......

Right, so you're either saving up to blow the last of the December salary on one helluva NYE out or you're just stony broke after Christmas/sales shopping. Either way, unless you're happy to simply hibernate for the week here are some ideas for New Year jollity on a budget. New Year's Eve: Follow our top tips and gird your loins for the massive fireworks display along the Thames, focusing on the London Eye and......

While the turkeys are getting nervous and the butchers are doing a roaring trade in this crucial last week before Christmas, a very unwelcome slaughter has taken place in Letchmore Heath, Herts. Gangotri was a sacred cow at the Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu temple; she had been injured in what the report calls 'a mating injury' last September and had been unable to stand since then. She was given a fatal dose of barbiturate by......

Fans of pomp and circumstance will line the streets of the City tomorrow to watch one of London’s fine old traditions unfold. Each year, the City of London gets a new Lord Mayor (most certainly not to be confused with the more well-known mayor who inhabits the glass testicle near Tower Bridge). Indeed, the office of Lord Mayor is so tied up in the ceremonial that the official web site doesn’t even bother to......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Seven Stars 53-54 Carey St WC2A 2JB Nearest Tube: Chancery Lane, Temple 0207 242 8521 11am-11pm (Monday-Friday) 12pm-11pm (Saturday) 12pm-10:30pm (Sunday) Map Expect to Pay: £10 or slightly more for mains Rating: 9.5 out of 10 This week’s What’s for Lunch? finds us back in the pub. And, considering we’re nestled in and having a scrummy meal across from......

Finding venues for Friday and Saturday's fixtures was a piece of cake compared to this! But no nation should be left out - what with the world being in union and all that. Fiji v Canada Sunday 16, 13.00 UK time from the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. Canadians! Seek the Maple Leaf. Drink Molson. Forget hockey. Fijians - listen up. We have important news for you and your Polynesian rivals below. Meet us one paragraph down.........

We've never made it down but the tales we've been told of Saturday night party Together at Turnmills make us curse everytime we realise it clashes with something we've already done. So while some of the Londonist music team are djing a clubnight on a boat down Temple way with a request list that includes Dane Bowers & Victoria Beckham's "Out of Your Mind", the slightly better DJ David Guetta will be pumping the......

Given the interest generated here by the news that the NFL is coming to town later this year we feel there'll be lots of you wanting to satisfy your curiosity by catching this year's American Football showpiece, the Superbowl, live from Miami starting very late on Sunday night and continuing well into Monday morning. Now, obviously, you can do this in the quiet comfort of your own home courtesy of the free terrestrial coverage,......

A few days back, we reviewed The Meaning of Night, a new novel partly set in the shadier parts of Victorian London. We caught up with author Michael Cox, to ask him about his London influences and plans for the sequels. The Meaning of Night is brilliant. Where do you get the inspiration to write something like that? In April 2004, I began to lose my sight as a result of cancer. In preparation......

Some of you might recall that a few years ago the Central Line was suspended for almost three months, following a derailment at Chancery Lane. At that time, this meant that this Londonista’s daily commute often involved walking from Bank to Holborn, past St Paul’s and across Holborn Viaduct – a part of our journey that soon got annoying, but was still quicker than taking the overwhelmed bus services. (London Underground never did cough......

You know when you have something nicked in London that the chances of ever seeing it again are pretty slim, but it turns out you can help the police get your stuff back simply by ensuring all your belongings are monkeys: A squirrel monkey stolen from a zoo has been found playing with children in south London. Zoo keepers at Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey discovered he was missing from his enclosure on......

You know when you have to go to a conference or exhibition with work and it's so boring that you can't even remember what you saw during the day? If you're lucky, the conference is an overnighter with a party or two thrown in as compensation for wasting precious hours of your life listening to some management drone read something off a load of PowerPoint slides in between showing you some indecipherable graphs and......

You wait a couple of millennia for ancient remains to be recalled to life, then two instances come along at once. Only last Friday we reported on plans to move the sorry-looking Temple of Mithras back to its rightful home. And now the BBC are declaring a brighter future for London Stone (one of those strange entities that inexplicably shuns the definite article. See also Magna Carta, Carnival and, erm, Londonist). You may not......

Good news for Iain Sinclair. The Temple of Mithras is going home. First the back-story. Lost for centuries, the Roman temple was rediscovered in the 1950s, after the Luftwaffe gave excavations a head start. Subsequent poking around uncovered some of the most important archaeological finds in the city’s history. 1700 years of mithraic splendour, hidden right beneath the banker's noses, was suddenly revealed. So what did they do to this site of significant historical......

Happy birthday Sakyamuni Buddha! The founder of Buddhism was born on the 8th day of the 4th lunar month and the Fo Guang Temple marked the special occasion with a little festival in Leicester Square this past weekend, only a few metres away from the Sultan's Elephant making its way around Trafalgar Square. It was altogether rather jolly and colourful in central London, despite the rain. The Fo Guang Temple Buddha's Birthday celebration is......

Prescott Plays Away Oh yes, the most unlikely news. Prescott, the multiple-Jaguar owning, language-mangling trouser-stretching (yes, in THAT way too, evidently) Deputy PM has had an affair with a woman 20 years his junior. His lover, Tracey Temple, was at the time Prescott's assistant private secretary, and took on the role of diary secretary to Two Jags. They began an illicit relationship at an office party in 2002, and started meeting secretly in a......

Easter Weekend brings more choices for clubs and bars than the already impressive amount London normally offers. So we've put together a quick guide to what we think are the best nights this weekend. Go out safe in the knowledge that there's no work the next day and dance til your feet hurt ladies! Friday It's the monthly XFM Remix Night hosted by Eddie Temple Morris at East London's Cargo club. Fans of the......

This day in London’s history Is this the dullest date ever in London’s history? The best we can come up with is the completion, in 1807, of some new docks in Rotherhithe. Oh, and Southgate and Enfield West opened on the Piccadilly Line in 1933. Plus some kind of fracas over at the LSE in 1967. Otherwise, March 13 is a day of meager excitement in the capital’s calendar. Unless you can find anything......

Last week, Fraser James used the power of Lawro to good effect, scoring a highly respectable 3 out of 5. After Sarah Johnson had hit the same score the previous week, we felt that the 'FPP' (as it's known in the corridors of power) was beginning to reach new heights of prediction excellence and consistency. Sadly, our balloon of complacency was soon pricked by the following missive... "You recent guest predictions have been disappointing,......

To all our Kiwi readers, although let's try to avoid any politics in this post since we really just want to let you know about Neil and Tim Finn's new album launch celebrations. We mention this because the Finn Brothers have (together and alone) been responsible for some of the most sublime pop music ever to cross an ocean, and today they're releasing their latest effort: She Will Have Her Way. We haven't heard......

Hats off to London MPs Kate Hoey (Vauxhall), Rudi Vis (Finchley & Golders Green) and Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North), who were among the Labour rebels whose votes aided the defeat of the Religious Hatred bill. This New Labour fatwa was note-perfect Brazil, combining as it did an Orwellian assault on language and freedom with bureaucratic incompetence. File under "I" for "ID Cards". (On the subject of ID cards and bureaucracy, this story wins "headline......

There’s a thin line between genius and madness, and we think we’ve just found it. Anyone who’s been into central London over the past few days may have noticed a seemingly endless red line wending along the pavements of WC1 and WC2, like the aftermath of some giant menstrual snail. On and on it goes for well over two miles. And so did we, in search of answers. The line begins at an anonymous......

Time for us to bang a few heads together and see whether we can recommend any weird and wonderful gigs for next week. And yes we can... Friday: Still time to get yourself down to Cargo this evening to catch Brixton's finest dance-indie mash-ups, Clor, supported by The Envelopes for Eddie Temple Morris's XFM Remix night. If you don't fancy going out this evening, Babyshambles will be playing tracks form their underwhelming mess of......

Time once again to cast an eye over this week's gig going highlights. Wednesday: If you haven't already been tempted by The Magic Numbers being nicer than is humanly possible at the Shepherd's Bush Empire or Hard Fi being T4 favourites at the Camden Electric Ballroom then why not check out the Tits of Death at the Vibe Bar, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane. Probably best not though if you're of a nervous disposition. Thursday:......

There seems something oddly obscene about ITV's decision to make a programme about the public's favourite images of death, destruction, mayhem, murder, pain, suffering, and general shittiness (ITV 50: The Shot That Shook The World, Tue 9.45pm ITV1). So, which is your favourite picture of disaster - the man standing in the path of a tank in Tiananmen Square, or the little Vietnamese girl crying as her body is engulfed in flames? Vote now......

Londonist regrets not writing up a post several weeks ago about the City of London Festival which is happening right now. They've managed to squeeze a rather amazing variety of events into the three weeks of the festival, and the idea of putting on performances of exciting, weird music in exciting, weird architectural spaces is one that needs to be imitated more. We were particular excited about Joby Talbot's new music-theatre piece performed in......