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Somerset House is a truly year-round venue. Through the winter months, the palatial arts complex on the Strand is home to one of the city’s most atmospheric winter skating pop-ups. In spring and autumn it hosts all manner of interesting art […]
Masayoshi Takanaka, the Japanese king of spangly, summery jazz fusion, is headlining a massive festival in London this summer. The legendary Tokyo-born guitarist, composer and producer is set to headline the London instalment of a global festival series called City […]
Getting a properly good gluten-free pastry can be quite the challenge. That’s why GF folk love Copains, the Parisian boulangerie that is known for its coeliac-friendly bakes, and opened its first London outpost in Covent Garden in November last year. Now Copains has […]
Regular users of London’s Piccadilly line, heads up. The navy blue tube service will be severely disrupted for two weekends over the next month or so, with huge sections of the line completely down from Friday night tube all the […]
When Broadway comedy smash Oh, Mary! opened in the West End at Christmas, it did so with no celebrity names, just its own formidable reputation and a couple of very credible stage actors in the form of Mason Alexander Park […]
Pick a book, any book, and you’ll probably be able to find it in one of London’s hundreds of bookshops. We’ve got enormous cornucopias like Daunt Books Marylebone, cult specialist shops like Climax Books, historic secondhand purveyors like Foster Books and pioneering radical […]
You’ve almost certainly heard of Annabel’s, the Mayfair private members club that has been the haunt of celebs and royals like Kate Moss, Mick Jagger and Princess Diana. Now, London’s most exclusive members club has finally decided to let the proles in. The catch? You’ll […]