(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
The world has been gripped by Yayoi Kusama fever for years now. The 93-year-old Japanese artist is everywhere, and everyone’s cashing in: fans queue day and night for her exhibitions; the Tate’s ‘Infinity Rooms’ are sold out months in advance, […]
East Londoners are cracking up at a graphic that has renamed East End tube stations in cockney, ‘as they should be’. Non-cockneys have been given schooling in the correct pronunciation of stops on the tube (‘Oxo cube’ in cockney rhyming […]
London’s full of places that, at one time or another, have been home to someone famous. And sometimes those places go up for sale – just like this one, which was once the home of none other than Margaret Thatcher. […]
West End performers are the latest Londoners to threaten a strike unless they get a pay rise, as the actors’ union Equity seeks to negotiate a rise of 17 percent this year and 10 percent next year, plus an increase in annual […]
As anyone who uses it reasonably regularly will no doubt already know, Liverpool Street station isn’t necessarily the shoddiest place in the world. It’s not quite as spick and span as newly-renovated hubs like London Bridge and King’s Cross, sure, but […]
Happy Lunar New Year! London’s best bao joints are celebrating the Year of the Rabbit – which begins this Sunday January 22 – with some very special sweet and savoury baos and steamed buns. Here’s our pick of the fluffle. […]
You may have heard whisperings about a mythical sounding new sky garden that has been said to be coming to London for years. Inspired by the famous New York High Line, people have been talking about bringing a similar skyward meadow to […]