(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
Every beanie-hatted, tote bag-bearing bro and their craft beer quaffing sidekick is a wine aficionado these days. So they’ll be very excited to hear that the now closed iconic restaurant, Le Gavroche, is auctioning off the wine from its cellar. Grab your chore […]
Hammersmith Bridge has been closed to vehicles for the past five years. Yep, five years. While at one point some thought the bridge might never reopen to road traffic, back in February the Thames crossing temporarily reopened to cyclists and small electric scooters. […]
These days the tube doesn’t seem like the old faithful it once was. Over the past months the Underground has been plagued by strikes and station closures, and what the heck is even going on with the Central line? And now it’s been […]
Can you believe that Walthamstow has been without a cinema for nearly an entire year? Since the collapse of Empire cinemas back in July 2023, ‘Stow’s been terrifyingly kino-free, the northeast London suburb’s residents left to traipse all the way […]
London, you’ll be happy to hear, is finally properly eating out again. Last year a whopping 253 new restaurants opened in the capital, the most since 2019, after which we saw the brutal gutting of hospitality in the wake of the […]
A colourful and sure-to-be-contentious replaying of Amy Winehouse’s triumphant and tragic life, ‘Back to Black’ finally lands on UK cinema screens this month. ‘Industry’s Marisa Abela steps into Winehouse’s ballet flats and ‘Starred Up’s Jack O’Connell is her hubby Blake […]
Ibrahim Mahama has draped the Barbican Centre in vast reams of pink fabric. It’s a super-colourful new installation that’s part of the Barbican’s recent ‘Unravel’ textile exhibition. The huge 2,000 square metre work was produced in the city of Tamale […]