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East London culture vultures – the time has finally come. Yep, after a decade-long development, the V&A East is officially launching in Stratford this weekend. The Victoria and Albert Museum, an essential institution of art, fashion, culture and history in the heart […]
Finding a pub with a dartboard in the big city will no longer be a shot in the dark. Founded by Fraser Hamilton, Dart Finder is a free iOS app that’s equal parts innovative and actually useful. While summer steers […]
When Record Store Day started out in 2007, it really did feel like vinyl might be on the way out: thousands of independent music traders were closing their doors as fans fled to cheaper (but less magical) digital ways of […]
Photograph: ShutterstockPeople talk about the ‘north-south’ divide in terms of culture and economics, but it turns out we should be talking about it in terms of… spiders. That’s because a certain type of poisonous arachnid has become ‘hugely more abundant […]
Photograph: London Transport MuseumFancy yourself a keen ferroequinologist? If you know what that word means, the answer is probably yes. For anyone not in the know, it’s the technical term given to anyone who’s really, really into trains. For all […]
Photograph credit: Tom Jackson It’s time to dust off your tweed jacket, your most obscure tote bag and that battered copy of The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: legendary indie label Rough Trade is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with […]
Let’s play a little word association game. When we say ‘Pokémon’, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Cards? Pikachu? Go? If you said ‘EDM’… well, OK, that’s weirdly specific – but in this case you’d be right. […]