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Photograph: Roisin TeelingNine months since it closed, the former home of G-A-Y has opened as a new queer venue. Reclaiming the legendary space at 30 Old Compton Street is Coven: Headquarters. The massive new club proudly bills itself as a space for […]
Photograph: Rebecca DickinsonIn a year that’s seen a host of great London restaurants closing, we bring you sad news of another. Bethnal Green’s excellent Italian restaurant Ombra will be shutting its doors at the end of this week, with owners […]
Photograph: Chris Lawrence Images / Shutterstock.comAlongside Sunday roasts, fish ’n’ chips and fry-ups, London’s classic food scene is built on classic cockney pie and mash. Juicy meat enveloped in flaky pastry, a plate piled high with pillowy mash, lashings and lashings […]
Image: Frida Kahlo, ‘Untitled [Self-portrait with thorn necklace and hummingbird]’ (1940). Courtesy of Muray Collection of Mexican Art, 66.6 / Harry Ransom Center.★★★ Frida Kahlo’s brought the sun to London. Tate Modern has sold more advance tickets for Frida Kahlo: […]
Photograph: Outernet Walking out of Tottenham Court Road station, you can’t miss Outernet. It’s that large gold cube building right opposite the exit with the enormous LED screens. Those screens are just the tip of the iceberg, though. Below ground, […]
Image: Creative Giants Ltd For several years, it looked as though London could be getting its own version of Las Vegas’ giant planet-shaped music venue The Sphere. The ill-fated plans to build the humungous orb (which would have been as tall as […]
Photograph: chrisdorney / Shutterstock.comThe online fashion giant single handedly responsible for the nation’s ‘jeans and a nice top’ epidemic is reportedly eyeing up its first ever permanent physical space. ASOS is apparently currently scouting for a unit of between 4,000 […]