| Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features from the past seven days. An octopus's garden of animal depictions and recordings. Latest cost-saving plan has been announced. "The world’s greatest flower show" See the director's greatest hits in one show. And the forest is calling. The IWA Canalway Cavalcade is back. Photo: garryknight via creative commons An eye-popping tour of Portlands Place. (Sponsor) It's not a Cold War bunker. Fancy having "Soho Square" on your wall? Bompas & Parr are behind this interactive experience. A subterranean portion of Londinium. The Queer Comedy Club in Archway opens in May. The answer seems to be an emphatic YES. A free exhibition in Bethnal Green. Seven kings anointed-upon-Thames. Are you sitting comfortably? Well, let's begin anyway. Boozers as muses. Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! London's hidden memorials. Surfing, sunbathing and shopping in the Canary Islands. London's finest classical music festival returns. Image: BBC/Mark Allan "I've been raided about five times in my life... three of those raids I got a boyfriend out of it!" Live your best brutalist life. | 