This Sunday  (27 Jan) is Hunga Munga's Art Bazaar at the Melange Social Club, 281  Kingsland Road. Its free entry and many local artists and makers will be selling their wares, from fashion and jewellery to toys, books and art. www.hungamunga.co.uk

I popped into the Union Gallery  - one of my favourites - and caught the Richard Learoyd photos. Like giant colour pinhole images, his aesthetic was mainly wan young girls and flowers but undeniably beautiful with an incredible depth of field: like you feel the texture of blossoms or a moistened lip. www.union-gallery.com

Steven Claydon's intriguing exhibition 'Strange Elements Permit Themselves the Luxury of Happening' is on now at the Camden Arts Centre (www.camdenartscentre.org). The title is taken from a Charlie Chan mystery, which no doubt creates a level of story and interplay, but think more of a provincial museum stuffed with minor relics, along with works by Paolozzi, Wyndham-Lewis, Sutherland etc. With themes of museology, the mystical and musty prevail.

New albums due this year from: Hot Chip, Gnarls Barkley (despite their label threatening to get bought out by the soulless moguls at EMI), Morrissey (Greatest Hits with new single then studio album in the late summer/autumn), Kaiser Chiefs, The B52s (!), Metallica (what can we expect from these dinosaurs when even the nu-metal crowd are sounding decidely long in the tooth?), Primal Scream...

Coming soon to our screens, Anna Friel in a US 'Twin Peaks-esque' black comedy called Pushing Daisies. She plays the partner to a pie-maker who can bring people back from the dead.

If you're bored of the drivel regurgitated in the London free papers look our for Litro - an independent literary publication which is available in good bookshops, newsagents and on the street. www.litro.co.uk  

And finally... we love all things art and we're pretty fond of getting on our bikes and riding. So imagine how pleased I was to learn of Frank Patterson, a cycling illustrator from the first half of the 20th Century. He was probably the princical illustrator of his day for anything involving a bike. He was born in Portsmouth (yay!) in 1871 to an Naval family and attendedPortsmouth Art College from age 14 . When at 19 he realised his creative fortunes lay in the capital he walked all the way! With little money life was hard and he lodged in poorer districts of Brixton and Islington. (NB: Van Gogh briefly lived in Brixton). After a brief and unhappy stint in the army  he returned and developed through design studios into his own practise, regularly working for the popular Cycling magazine. Very inspiring. For more info and prints visit www.thefrankpattersonsociety.co.uk