(L)ondon (I)nteresting (A)ctivities
At Christmas, words and concepts become elastic. ‘Family’ means literally anyone who happens to show up for dinner, even if they’re your fuckboy cousin’s girlfriend of all of three weeks. ‘Togetherness’ just means getting drunk at the same time. And ‘breakfast’ […]
Greggs is an oasis of bargainous food in an increasingly pricy city, famed for lifting Londoners’ spirits with flaky £1.15 sausage rolls and pretty pastel-tinted doughnuts. So it seems kind of weird that it’s now opening an outlet shop that […]
Fenwick is planning to close its iconic store on Bond Street after 130 years. You’ve still got some time to pop in, though, as it’s not set to shut its doors until 2024. After a ‘challenging’ few years, the store […]
Listen, you don’t need us to tell you that living in London is spenny. But seeing the cold, hard, numbers can still be pretty eye-watering. And with the cost of living crisis, they keep going up and up. Research by the […]
Update, Monday, December 12: tickets are now available. In the nicest way possible, the Old Vic’s current programming feels a bit like Groundhog Day: the show on now is ‘A Christmas Carol’, back for its sixth year in a row; next […]
Update: tickets are now available Still the fifteenth longest-running West End show in history, Ben Elton’s Queen musical ‘We Will Rock You’ was a true London icon. Okay, it received distinctly ‘mixed’ notices, but for 12 years the walloping great statue […]
A young tube fan, Felix Dennis, has declared transport justice for south London, which has notoriously bad Underground connections. He’s created an idealised tube map that’s ‘fairer to south London’, adding tons of new stops in Dulwich, Croydon, Bromley and […]