(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
A starry new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic directed by horror legend Guillermo del Toro is worth celebrating – and Netflix and the BFI London Film Festival are doing exactly that with a new London exhibition tied into the release […]
Big red double decker buses are as much of a London icon as Big Ben and overpriced rent. Red models have been serving the capital since 1908, although they’ve gone through some changes in their century-plus of life. Luckily, the London […]
Earlier this year all-conquering pop phenomenon The Weeknd (Abel Tesfaye) released his sixth album Hurry Up Tomorrow, wrapping up a trilogy of records that have propelled the ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ and ‘Blinding Lights’ singer to new heights of fame. […]
The National Portrait Gallery has been on an absolute roll over the last couple of years, not only opening its swanky new £35 million Blavatnik Wing back in summer 2023, but curating some truly unmissable temporary exhibitions since. And now, […]
Calling all lovers of musty, dog-eared, yellow-paged books: a new independent shop for secondhand tomes opened last week in Muswell Hill, north London. In a useful repurposing of a high-street space, it occupies the site of an old funeral parlour – […]
Southeast Londoners, we’ve got some banging news – after six long years, Blackheath Fireworks is set to make an almighty return for Bonfire Night 2025. The huge fireworks display, once heralded as ‘London’s biggest free fireworks display’, was first called off by Lewisham Council […]
It’s been a huge couple of years for the National Gallery. The Trafalgar Square institution marked its 200th birthday in 2024 with a year of celebrations, and then in May of this year its Sainsbury Wing reopened after a two-year, […]