(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
Photograph: lev radin/ShutterstockWay back in 1998, a young Michael Sheen took to the Old Vic stage to play the title role of Peter Shaffer’s brilliant 1979 drama Amadeus, a masterpiece that followed the catastrophic, one-sided rivalry between the young, brilliant composer Wolfgang […]
Photograph: Sergii Figurnyi / Shutterstock.comThis week London has seen two 24-hour strikes spread over four days, with RMT tube drivers walking out and causing major disruption across the network. Over the weekend (April 25-26) those strikes will come to an end […]
Photograph: Michaelpuche / Shutterstock.comPicture this: there you are, powering across Tower Bridge, surrounded by cheering crowds, with thousands of other runners plodding alongside you. Suddenly, you spot a familiar face out of the corner of your eye. It’s Cynthia Erivo […]
Image: BPR ArchitectsSix years after it was first proposed, the 186-year-old Lea Bridge station is finally getting a much-needed upgrade. The station sits on the Greater Anglia line between Tottenham Hale and Stratford, and it reopened after 31 years out of action […]
Photograph: Time Out From stone circles to leylines, to legends and witchcraft, the UK is packed full of freaky and mysterious histories and mythologies, which according to the folk at Weird Walk – the zine that encourages an exploration of British […]
If you’re anything like us, as soon as the sun comes out you start itching to feel the sand between your toes. The only problem, if you hadn’t noticed, is that the Big Smoke isn’t exactly a coastal city. Bar sunbathing on […]
Yesterday (Tuesday April 21) would have been the late Queen Elizabeth’s 100th birthday. There are all sorts of things going on in London to mark the occasion, like a fashion exhibition showing some of Lizzie’s most iconic garbs at Buckingham Palace, a presentation […]