• It rained. And then the signals failed. Happy Monday.
• 'Bloodgate': something about a naughty doctor and the sordid offs and ons of the rugby world.
• Cases of female circumcision are on the rise in London.
• London has its first boutique hospital.

The Thames Barrier to Teddington Flickrpool is taking shape. Over 100 photos are geotagged in there already but looking at the map of pictures, there's scope for many more images, especially to fill the gaps around Limehouse, Rotherhithe and the Isle of Dogs as well as the western stretch from Teddington to Fulham and Putney. To assist with the latter, reader, Flickr friend and all round good egg Laura Babb has organised a photowalk along the Thames from Teddington. In her own words: more ›

Homemade London offers craft workshops and workspace to hire. We went to a perfume blending workshop to get a feel for how it works, and came out smelling gorgeous. more ›

Sounding like a punkier, heavier version of the Klaxons Flash Fiktion have been slowly creeping onto the Londonist playlist over the last couple of weeks. Matt, Ollie and Dan live in glamourous Elephant and Castle and release their debut single Leni today. We grabbed them for a chat. more ›

Nudged into action by a growing trend for sustainable dining, we've embarked on an eco eating crawl… more ›

Summer is slowly coming to an end (boo!) but if there is one positive side to things, it's the slow return of bands to London from the various festivals of the summer. But Victoria Park will wrap up playing host to festivals in style with the inaugural London Electronic Dance Festival this Friday and Saturday. Highlights of the bill include David Guetta, Goldfrapp, Calvin Harris, Leftfield, Aphex Twin, Friendly Fires, and Die Antwoord. But if you've already got weekend plans, you've still got options: more ›

Baby boom children were regaled with the story that Princess Elizabeth had been informed of her father King George VI’s death at the exclusive ‘Treetops’ game lodge in the Aberdares national park of Kenya. Forty years later it turned out to be an arthritically creaking wooden assembly on stilts facing a rain-sodden pit of mulched foliage to which, at sunset, drifted a random collection of forest-floor wildlife. Soutra Gilmour’s rickety stick-ety four tier set evokes the same image as the cast creeps out of the undergrowth to launch Into the Woods in a blindingly obvious setting that has somehow taken the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre twenty years to realise but in Timothy Sheader’s gloriously detailed production comes close to a perfect match. more ›

Looks like bad news for all those into their funky house and dirty pop, if this poster on Old Ford Road is anything to judge by. The 'new era of club culture' in the East End, with "massive DJ's/PA's" (sic) every Friday night, has been cancelled! Dang and blast. Still, nice of the organisers to let everyone know by putting a huge 'Cancelled' sticker over the poster. But hang on, what's that text at the bottom? more ›

The GLA has endorsed a nationwide campaign to get people behind the country's bid to host the World Cup in 2018: it's encouraging people to ditch the pinstripe and wear their football shirt to work this Tuesday, August 24th. more ›

We are attempting to locate proper summer weather, which seems to have gone astray over the weekend, and we would like it back for this week, please. If we take today's date: 23.8.10, turn it into a proper number: 23,810 and take that to the Londonist Flickr pool, we might get a clue as to what the rest of August will be like... It will mostly be rain. Lots and lots of rain, as captured by Annie Mole at Kew Gardens Station. Sigh. At least there'll be no hosepipe ban this year... more ›