In a wide-ranging interview on Monday, Time Out founder and publisher Tony Elliot revealed that the magazine could become a freesheet. Speaking to Media Guardian, Elliot suggested the weekly listings title is considering reducing the print edition to a slim, freely distributed edition and moving the bulk of its content online. While Time Out may be less essential than during its rabble-rousing heyday (currently celebrated in an exhibition in the Museum of London's foyer), the......

Time Out gave us a plug yesterday, so it's only fair we return the favour (cos they're, like, a tiny, struggling outfit who need a bit of profile raising). Editor-at-Large Michael Hodges is standing for Mayor. Hate him or loathe him, the bespectacled columnist certainly lives London in a way the other candidates do not. His weekly adventures take him to every corner of town, where he orders a drink, dispenses an insult and......

With voting now closed for the Bloggies 2008 we're sitting on the edge of our un-ergonomic seats awaiting the results (the awards ceremony will be held at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, USA on Monday, March 10 with the results posted online shortly afterwards). Who will be crowned Best European Weblog? The suspense is killing us. In the meantime then, how nice to wake up on a foggy Wednesday and......

Nu-metal stars Linkin Park are the main draw on Monday night, with support coming from the mighty Biffy Clyro as they play the first of two consecutive nights at the O2, and whilst tickets are all sold out, there are a few floating around on Scarlet Mist and such like. Stephen Fretwell plays a sold out show at The Troubadour, and reggae star Finley Quaye plays the first of a three night stay at the......

The provocative title is not simply a cheap trick like putting "SEX!!!!1!" across the top of a flyer to catch people's attention for carpet cleaning equipment. The One Night Stand With... series is quite literally one night with a specially commissioned artist at VINEspace, an inquisitive East London gallery in Bethnal Green Each month, an artist is invited to present an exhibition for one night only. It is taken down in the morning so......

Time Out recently presented St Pancras Station as their inaugural 'Wonder of London'. Profile Books goes a couple of stages further by including the terminus in its 'wonders of the world' series - buildings and monuments, such as the Colosseum, Stonehenge and the Forbidden City, whose 'names will be familiar to almost everyone'. We're not sure if the station is quite in that category yet. It's doubtful it has anything like the global and......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Hummus Bros Soho Location 88 Wardour Street W1F 0TJ 020 7734 1311 11am-10pm (Monday-Wednesday) 11am-11pm (Thursday-Friday) 12pm-11pm (Saturday) 12pm-10pm (Sunday) Map Holborn Location 37-63 Southampton Row WC1B 4DA 020 7404 7079 11am-10pm (Monday-Friday) Map Expect to Pay: under £7 Rating: 4 out of 10 Londonist is all about restaurants honing in on one thing and doing it right: creampuffs......

Meat Raffle has been putting on exciting live acts and banging out the hits upstairs at Shoreditch BarCatch for nearly 18 months now. So we thought it was quite time enough to get in touch with promoter and DJ 16oz Stewart, who used to run TVOD in Manchester, to get the lowdown. When and why did you set Meat Raffle up? February of 2006. To show off our exciting records and get a few......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Just Falafs 27b Covent Garden Piazza WC2E 8RD Map 155 Wardour St W1F 8WG Map Expect to Pay: £5 - 6 Rating: 8 out of 10 Londonist recently enjoyed a large FLT (falafel, leaf, tomato with humus in a pita) at Just Falafs’ Covent Garden location. Notwithstanding the eatery’s pun-intended name, our lunch was seriously good: filling, yummy, healthy.......

There are London Literature Festivals, and then there's London Literature Plus. This independent rival to the South Bank's extravagnza also kicked off yesterday, and involves almost 30 lit-related events. Here's a pick of the highlights. July 3: Poejazzi. Poetry and jazz? Not necessarily a winning combination in everyone's book, but Time Out certainly like it. They listed Poejazzi amongst their 101 things to do in London 2007. 8pm, Volupté. July 5: Social Disease Social.......

Ken haters do a major backtrack on election issues. Did Time Out really call Kingston a "flaccid penis"?. The Cutty sark online fundaraiser is pulling in £485 an hour! Our new PM has appointed Sir Alan to help out on business matters. And the Verve are back... again! Photo taken from Matt FM's photostream.......

Lee Jackson of Victorianlondon.org fame recently got in touch about an old web site he'd unearthed. Half a decade ago, Lee recorded random voices from the South Bank and built a page for them. It's a bit like The Man Who Fell Asleep's Overheard on the Underground Column for Time Out, but more hypnotic. Lee picks up the tale... I tried the same thing again on the north bank of the Thames, but didn't get......

Smoke, Issue 10 is on sale now. This 'love letter to London' is available from some good newsagents and bookshops, and a few more tawdry outlets for £2.50. Highlights include the Hampstead fish who are evolving to look like William Morris carpets, where to find an alternative universe in Hackney and a double whammy of London's campest statues. There are undoubtedly other good articles in there, but we've only read the first half so......

Sick and tired of wading through the bleepings and scratchings of super trendy MySpace-famous outfits we thought we'd offer you a break from them, too, with a good old-fashioned dose of angular noise from the truly fabulous Popular Workshop. They've played more gigs than you've had hot dinners, their frontman looks dapper in a hat and if John Peel was still around they'd have set up home at Maida Vale studios by now, so......

The New York Times has a quirky little article about 'affordable' things to do in London. A good rule of thumb is "if it costs a dollar in New York, it costs a pound in London" (though, of course, there are nearly two dollars in a pound). In fact, perhaps the best advice of all is: Don't do the math while spending pounds; it will only make you queasy. Nonetheless, you can still ferret out......

Robin Ince is a stand up comedian and writer. By all accounts he is very good and has had his fingers in many pies. Robin is also the founder of The Book Club, a nomadic club night. The club has proved to be so successful that Robin took it on a full UK tour this year and also won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. This weekend, on the 17th December,......

Themanwhofellasleep is on an outing this month - a virtual book tour in which he'll spend twenty days jumping around the blogosphere doing interviews and talking to people about his book. Thinking we'd leave the Q&A's and reviews for other legs of the trip we asked Themanwhofellasleep instead to talk a little about what's been going on in the press of late... Hello, this is Greg aka Themanwhofellasleep. You may know me from my......

This Day In London’s History 1970: The first ever public gay protest in Britain is held at Highbury Fields. Following the arrest (and alleged entrapment) of Louis Eaks for cottaging, the Gay Liberation Front (a name that always makes us think of The Life Of Brian) gathered on 27th November 1970 for a torchlight procession through Highbury Fields in protest. Reports differ as to how many protesters attended the procession, but it was clear......

So Tate Modern gets turned into a minimalist, brushed steel, grown-ups adventure playground and meanwhile, in Battersea, another London power station has a makeover... Like the bottle of olive oil in an Italy-shaped novelty glass bottle that has been in the kitchen cupboard since that trip to Florence in 2004, London has always been meaning to do something with Battersea Power Station. It just sits there. It shouldn't be wasted. It's still useful. C'mon, think.........

This day in London’s History 1749: Gurning impresario John Jacob Heidegger dies, aged 90. No, got to admit, we’d never heard of him either. But having read his story, we feel ashamed to have only just made his acquaintance. Heidegger came to London in 1708 from Switzerland as a ‘negotiator’. Through force of character, he worked his way up the social ladder and eventually became a favourite in the court of George II. During......

We were upset to learn that the tobacconists Bonds of Oxford Street are no longer Of Oxford Street. The premises that they occupied for the entire childhood of one Londonista has been invaded by a shop that sells handbags. Bonds have been relegated to some backwater trading estate in SW16. Sentimental adolescent memories are attached to that purveyor of fine tobaccos, cigars, and pipes of all distinctions, shapes and sizes; we bought our first......

Tom Conti has had over 15 years to learn his lines, so why does he continue to fluff them? Cues were fumbled, lines were missed, the delivery was messy and key swearwords were dropped in favour of more reserved language; not at all what one expects from a play about one of Old Soho’s most colourful characters getting locked in his favourite pub overnight. Perhaps these faults were intended to add a sense of......

Tonight The Illustrated London Noise unfolds tonight at the ICA. THis collective of record-hunting obsessives meet every month to share their vinyl findings and the evening can include any number of musical discoveries from gospel to psychedelia, from punk rock to Japanese drumming. If you're going, you're invited to bring your own favourite discovery (vinyl only, please!) to share with everyone else - the aim is to "surprise and delight even the most hardened......

Time Out have announced the details of their 'London on Screen' season designed to celebrate "the very best of filmmaking in London from across the decades": The streets, buildings and monuments of our city appear regularly in films from around the world, from big-budget Hollywood movies seeking a European interlude to Bollywood films looking for a dose of European 'exoticism'. But it's much rarer to see a film in which a filmmaker, British or......

A 29-year-old father of two has been shot dead in Chalk Hill, Wembley as he was taking his children to school. The man who climed the Eye yesterday was finally talked down after seven hours and promptly arrested. The winning image in the Nokia Citizen Journalism Awards 2006 is a shot of the No.30 bus in Tavistock Square taken just after the explosion on 7th July. Prince Charles opened the Jameel Gallery of Islamic......

As my copy of 'The Eraser' still hasn't arrived from Amazon I've been trying to distract myself with other things. Work, seeing friends, and other bands...ironically what's been very successfully distracting me is Muse's brand new album 'Black Holes and Revelations'. Ironic because of all the lazy comparisons between Radiohead and Muse over the years and ironic because they're nothing like each other. I never really understood that comparison aside from the fact that......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. If you're about to leave this great, heaving sweaty beast of a city, you might want to cast your eyes over a few summer holiday reading lists and see what the good people at the Guardian, Amazon and Time Out (NY) recommend. Either that or you could just buy the new Jackie Collins at......

Brian the pigeon is in the running for Londoner of the year. The capital's smallest, most-winged blogger has taken the media by storm, appearing in TimeOut, The Guardian and even starring in his own movies. We caught up with the little fellow to find out what he thinks about bird flu, big bad Ken and, as usual, whether he's ever vomited on the Tube... Tell us a bit about yourself? Well… my name is......

Last week, as The Sultan's Elephant brought theatre and spectacle onto the streets and straight to the people, an apt debate titled West End Theatre Should Be Sunk In The Atlantic. took place at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark. Time Out’s Deputy Theatre Editor, Rachel Halliburton. David Rosenberg, Director of the Shunt Collective and Phil Willmott, Artistic Director of The Steam Industry represented the non-West End theatre side and argued for the swift......

These listings appear every Wednesday. If you want to let us know about any upcoming science or technology events, you can contact us on LondonistSciTech@Gmail.com Event of the Week Chernobyl and the Nuclear Debate, Dana Centre, tonight Should we continue to commission and upgrade our nuclear reactors? It’s one of those fiendish dilemmas where both camps have strong arguments and are convinced of their position (and here’s an example). The situation’s a bit like......