Sure, she can get you down sometimes – all the unrelenting rain, the head-bowed charging and barging from fellow Londoners – but then, when you take a quiet moment and a long look out across the river from Waterloo Bridge, even with all the hideous cranes and insidious grey, London sure is perty.

An exclusive Urban Junkies offer to see Katie Mitchell's production at the National Theatre

… threw a party at Beyond the Valley to launch their new book, cunningly entitled When Fletcher and Hay Met, it was a thoroughly gorgeous affair.

When an artist is famed for his blood-based performance art (yes, it’s his own blood), one should really expect the unexpected.

Attention spans are - pay attention! - attention spans are shrinking faster than ever. Apparently we spend less than a minute on a single web page wherever possible, and even then prefer to scan, taking in only about 20% of written material.

Chess Boxing. Perhaps the ultimate sport. Two gentlemen challenging each other, brain and brawn, in alternating rounds of speed chess and physical combat. It's either sheer stupidity or utter genius.