The Night Shift is London’s best way to get into Puccini without the palaver. Check out the next Night Shift event this Friday, 13 August!

Celebrate Canada Day in London! With a raft of festivities going on in Trafalgar Square, you can’t go wrong.

The First Pint’s Heather Christie and Rijuta Dey travelled to Whitehaven in Cumbria in the wake of the brutal shooting that occured yesterday morning.

The sleepy town of Whitehaven is in shock after the brutal killings yesterday. First Pinters Heather Christie and Rijuta Dey were on the scene to hear how the locals felt.

Need help with sassing up your urban greenspace? A team of experts have created an online archive of little-known tips to help you put the flo in your flora and take the yawn out of your lawn.

Taking a trip through Trafalgar Square can sometimes lead to amazing discoveries. You might stumble on a riot or even an interesting art installation. If you’re really lucky, though, you might find a band that really jives with your vibe.

There’s a new exhibition in town–Kensington Palace gets enchanted, as it gets revamped by princesses, performance artists, and fashionistas. Word to the wise: if you’re looking for a silent walk-through head to Hampton!

The First Pint’s Heather Christie squeezed into the biggest-ticket event to hit London’s Canadian ex-pat scene since Confederation: The Olympic gold medal hockey game between Canada and the United States.

Face it. Every time you hop on the tube heading north on everyone’s favourite blue line (though there is some debate), you just gotta giggle like a pre-pubescent boy.

London Iranians gathered outside of Downing Street today to protest the West’s perceived appeasement of the dictatorial regime. Waving flags and chanting protest slogans, the 50-odd protesters called for severe sanctions against the government of Mahmoud Ahmedinijad.

Near the end of the Hammersmith and City Line’s pink sprawl lies a university, shisha bars and multicultural restaurants – the makings of a delightful day out.

Alas, even in London, the leering threat of suburbia looms large beyond the limits of the Ring Road and Circle Line. But is it really all suburbanites dieting on Prozac and Chardonnay?

Are you sick of dishing out bowls of tenners just to use a sub-par gym, dance cave, or yoga studio? Or maybe you have a hankering for a good trot ’round the city. Either way, you’re in for some good news.

When you tell people you’re going to a meat market at 3 am on a Wednesday morning, they tend to think that you plan on gracing one of those late-night, bump-and-grind, sweat-and-sex hotspots peppered throughout any midsize city that boasts any semblance of nightlife.

If this is what you’re expecting when you plan your trip to Smithfield Market, you’re in for one hell of a wakeup call.