It's Frightfest! And we have two separate giveaways for the brave souls who have pants strong enough for these special premieres... From the director of The Hills Have Eyes comes Mirrors is the terrifying story of troubled ex-cop Ben Carson (Sutherland) who must save his family from an unspeakable evil that is using...

Edward T. Meyer is the Vice President of Exhibits and Archives for Ripley Entertainment. He's worked for the company since 1978, and has personally acquired more than 20,000 exhibits. He took some time to answer a few of Londonist's questions about the new London location of Ripley's Believe It or Not, which opens...

From the Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, SE17 by secretlondon123 Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.

Our beloved Routemaster's retirement has taken on a melancholy air. Seeing those "heritage" routes trundle along the Strand with nary a passenger on them, a bored conductor with his ticket machine noosed forlornly around his neck, is a sad sight to behold, and a humiliating end for these once-proud beasts. The Japanese...

While we're all shocked at Team GB doing so well in the Olympics (We seem to be good at sitting down sports - rowing and cycling and BMX'ing), I thought it might be interesting to see what London or rather London Underground sports that we might excel at when the Olympics comes here in 2012.So cycling, yes we appear to be...

Team GB's dominance in the Olympic cycling events was consolidated yesterday with Victoria Pendleton's women's sprint victory and Chris Hoy's third gold medal of the Games (fourth of his career) closely followed by team mate Jason Kenny with the silver in the men's sprint. Come the victory parade in October, there will...

And it came to pass that Team GB didst look upon their works and, behold, they were good. And on the twelfth day they rested. Well, comparatively speaking anyway. Today there are only eleven gold medals available across the whole games, the fewest on any official competition day except the opening Saturday where events...

High Street 201212) BOW ROADBow Road tube station to Fairfield RoadA century ago, this next stretch of road would have been the part of Bow everybody visited. Here was the municipal hub of a growing suburb, the civic centre, the social heart. It doesn't feel quite so must-see today.100-ish years back: Come, let us traverse...

Norway's Hans-Peter Lindstrom takes to the stage (if you can call it that) in Rough Trade East looking unassumingly geeky in a checked shirt and a hat that covers most of his face. He is playing as part of the shop's heavily Converse-branded first birthday celebrations and might reasonably be miffed at the smallish...

High Street 201212) BOW ROADBow Road tube station to Fairfield RoadNot so many decades ago, this next stretch of road would have been the part of Bow everybody visited. Here was the municipal hub of a growing suburb, the civic centre, the social heart. It doesn't feel quite so must-see today.100-ish years back: Come, let us...