Current art shows in London, with reviews, all on one big page.

In iPhone form. Searchable, shows current location, generally looks quite slick, and you don't need to be online to use it (which, since I drain my battery using Google Maps whenever I'm in London, is the tempting feature). £5.99.

"The transformation of London's east end ahead of the 2012 Olympics is well underway. But construction of a sparkling new stadium and Olympic park - as depicted in artist impressions - has only just begun. Radio 4's Today programme asked author and local resident Iain Sinclair to tour the area. He explains why he is sceptical about the benefits the London games will bring."

Not the most reliable source, but fingers crossed!

Well worth a download if you missed it on the telly.

Indeed not. Good thorough post on the RHG campaign.

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.

Donny's review of our Comptoir Gascon meal. (I'll add: foie gras superb, hefty; duck confit decent. Paul won with the mallard.)

Interesting photo-essay on East London and grime.

Physics graduate harrassed by police and fined £80 for saying that the metal detector at Highbury & Islington tube station is a 'piece of shit that wouldn't stop anyone'.

Nice little primer on dubstep from the Beeb.

Nice interview with Burial.

"Colin MacInnes, the novelist, essayist, critic, experimentalist, and inveterate fringe-dweller whose three essential works—City of Spades (1957), Absolute Beginners (1959), and Mr Love and Justice (1960)—form “the London trilogy,” is not exactly

Don documents the clearing of his allotment.

Horton's band

Gorgeous building.

In response to We'reNotAfraid.com

Updating live.

Fox News considers Arab people non-regular.

Eyewitness accounts from the London attack.

Folk escaping the tube.

Great essay on public and not-so-public spaces in London.

I liked this bit: 'His work is extraordinary, it's almost as if Vegas itself is self-representing what it thinks is most important about itself - using only the plastics and artificiality and neon that it has naturally at its disposal.'

I'm going to St. John tomorrow! I cannot fucking wait! I hope they have the Duck's Hearts on Toast on the menu! Tra la la!

Furniture, lighting, objects