This Sunday, rap fans will pay their respect to late hip-hop producer J-Dilla at Cargo in Shoreditch. DJs including Shortee Blitz, Marc Mac and DJ Spin Doctor will be bumping favourites from Dilla's back catalogue in an event held to honour his life and legacy. Born James Yancey, and also known as Jay Dee, Dilla was the "producer's producer": feted by the likes of Kanye and Pharrell, he was one of the most influential......

This Sunday TfL take over the North London Line. Yes, the service also known as the loony line and infamous for fare dodging and criminal activity on unmanned stations is getting a rebrand. Goodbye (good riddance) Silverlink! Hello London Overground. The long neglected, feared and cursed service that links Stratford with North London and pootles all the way around the West to Richmond is being brought into the TfL fold. It's even getting coloured......

You know the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is truly here when shiny brown conkers start showing up everywhere. This Sunday they'll be swinging from strings and used as potentially lethal (well, knuckle bruising) weapons by all and sundry: it's Hampstead Heath's Conker Championship! This is doubly exciting. Firstly, Conkers is a stupidly excellent game that makes us feel all nostalgic and olde Englishe. Secondly, Hampstead Heath just isn't mentioned often enough on......

This Sunday sees The Chemical Brothers take over Trafalgar Square for an evening of free music for the capital. Joined by Calvin Harris, the evening looks set to recreate the massive party Scissor Sisters had in the square last summer for the (Red) campaign. The Chems will have a one-off lights-sounds-images show from United Visual Artists and Flat Nose George, which will make the evening all the more special. So, we hear you cry, where......

With Notting Hill Carnival upon us in full effect the next day, you probably won't want to cane it too severely on Sunday night, but gently starting the party early never hurt anyone. Well, on second thought, it probably did at some point or other, but Upset The Rhythm should guarantee that at least you'll be entranced by interesting sounds if not completely kept out of harm's way. This Sunday sees these never dull......

You may remember the Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston for its inspired football World Cup sessions last summer where the on-screen action from Germany was accompanied by two competing free jazz ensembles. This time the club has turned to blues in the shape of South-East London guitarists Steve Morrison and Billy Jenkins who are presenting a brand new programme of topical music to accompany... a chess tournament. This Sunday sees the climax of five......

Bethnal Green's Working Men's Club is ace. We can give you all the 'we were there before everyone caught onto it' spiel, but well we were, and anyway how can anyone refuse to love a place where the bar staff don't really seem to know how much to charge for drinks leaving them getting progressively cheaper as the night goes on. This Sunday, Londonist favourite and recent iTunes celebrity Rod Thomas celebrates the success......

We've often walked past the Rex Cinema on Rupert Street, late at night and wondered what exactly went on in there. With a bouncer on the door it didn't look like the type of place you could just wander on into to see the latest Harry Potter. Now we've done a little investigating and figured out its a 75 seat cinema, with a bar, and a very expensive price tag. If you don't have......

The Turbine Hall in Tate Modern is, to put it mildly, bloody huge. It's... enormous. And sometimes filled with polystyrene sugar cubes, strange weather or the mutterings of millions. However, a space like that has rarely seen live performance which makes sense if you've been there - it would be a bit like shouting Shakespeare into the upturned wok formerly known as the Millennium Dome. "Collaborative performance and installations" do, on the other hand,......

This Sunday on BBC Radio London at 2pm, Danny Kelly will be announcing the winners of the station's Sports Awards for 2005. The categories include footballer, athlete, cricketer and rugby player of the year plus the usual team of the year and personality of the year (Kelly Holmes won last year). Pretty standard stuff so far, but the awards also cast an eye on London's grass-roots sports scene, giving awards for best non-professional team......

This Sunday, India's glammest festival: Diwali will be celebrated in Trafalgar Square. Diwali is celebrated on a grand scale in almost all the regions of India. Designed to celebrate the victory of good over evil, and "the glory of light over darkness", the word Diwali itself means ‘a row of lamps’ and traditionally homes are lit with the glow of small earthen lamps to welcome Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. In Trafalgar......

This Sunday the Arizona Cardinals will play the San Francisco 49ers in Mexico City. It will be the first NFL regular season game to be played outside the US and if it works they want to start taking a game abroad every season. Guess where they want to come next? Yes, the NFL want to come to Wembley and they've sent their finest ambassador to come and tell us all about it. That's right......

This Sunday, if you can get down to Gunnersbury Park in Ealing then you can join in the festivities at the third London Mela. Designed to display the "rich tableau of South Asian culture and creativity from London" the London Mela (Mela means 'to meet' in Sanskrit) is known for commissioning new work, providing a platform for emerging British artists, and featuring pop acts alongside the more traditional and classical musicians. The line up......

Although there are still a few days before Sunday, Londonist could not resist informing our readers of what could be a potentially riotous event. This Sunday at 9:00 pm, the Curzon Soho (a Londonist favorite) will be showing She Hate Me, Spike Lee’s most recent movie. Now why is it you ask that we mention this? Because this is no ordinary screening, it is the first Curzon Boo-A-Long(and once you hear the storyline you will......