January 2019

• A human-sized kaleidoscope is coming to the Saatchi Gallery
• Xi’an Biang Biang
• Eight awesome things to do in your lunch break
• Dismantle This Room
• Most Googled: how do I make friends in London?
• 22 must-go places in Waterloo and the South Bank
• The State Between Us
• Rattled
• Kisstory festival is coming back but with one major difference
• ‘Counting Sheep’ review
• 19 cheap lunches that all Londoners should know about
• There’s a pop-up Lego café coming to London – and Chris Pratt and Tiffany Haddish are serving free coffee
• Belushi's Bar Camden
• Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch — Since She - Dimitris Papaioannou
• Miss Tapas
• What the hell is plogging? Where to try the new green fitness craze in London
• Everything you need to know about The Grimaldi Memorial Service
• This map shows where the most stressed Londoners live
• Meet the London artist who’s covered her entire house in mosaics
• ‘Crucible of the Vampire’ + Q&A
• 5 totally free things to do in London this week
• Babylon Festival
• BABYLON Beyond Borders
• ‘Cuzco’ review
• Vermuteria
• ICCO Camden
• Mighty Hoopla festival is back and the line-up is more poptastic than ever
• Just announced: The Strokes are playing Victoria Park this summer
• How London embraced rollerskating
• Five need-to-know lunch spots in Shoreditch and the City
• Work in King’s Cross or Euston? You need to know about these three lunch spots
• Three cheap and tasty lunches in Soho and Covent Garden
• Three brilliant places to get lunch in Hammersmith and White City
• Five tasty lunches to get in London Bridge, Waterloo and Elephant & Castle
• Monkey and Roy and Friends
• Live at the Empire with Rob Delaney
• Bush Hall Presents with John Robins
• Kilikya St Katharine Docks
• Live at the Chapel with Ed Byrne
• Kilikya Canary Wharf - CLOSED
• Live at the Chapel with David O'Doherty
• Live at the Chapel with Milton Jones
• Live at the Chapel with Sara Pascoe
• Jazzgir
• John Robins: Hot Shame
• Aziz Ansari: Road to Nowhere
• Michelle Wolf
• Rich Hall’s Hoedown
• Angela Barnes: Rose Tinted
• Stevie Martin: Vol 1
• Chris Redd
• Wanstead Flats
• Watford Colosseum
• Harriet Kemsley: Slutty Joan
• Brompton Cemetery
• Heidi Regan: Heidi vs Sharks
• Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art
• Five Bells
• Havering Museum
• Cheslyn House and Gardens
• Site of Prince's Picture House
• Walthamstow Cricket, Tennis and Squash Club
• Manor Aquatics Centre
• Enfield Skatepark
• Enfield Choi Kwang Do
• Cedars Park
• Cedars Nature Centre
• The Mill Community Centre
• Pymmes Park
• Blue Plaque: Sir Ernest Shackleton
• Roca London Gallery
• Clapton Round Chapel
• Harrow Arts Centre
• Fairkytes Art Centre
• Edmonton War Memorial
• Kings Head
• River Lee Country Park
• Oxhey Library
• The Pump House
• The Wireless Festival line-up has just been announced – and it’s peng
• Dugdale Centre
• North London is getting a hip wine bar from the Three Sheets team
• Crystal Palace Indoor Bowling Club
• Star Lane Park
• Art on the Estate
• Everyman Canary Wharf
• Royal Victoria Gardens
• Royal Docks Pumping Station
• Traffic Light Tree
• New Beckton Park
• Horsenden Farm
• Roxbourne Park
• Abbey Gardens
• Edwin Arnold's House
• Welsh Harp Open Space
• Ruislip Woods Nature Reserve
• The Tin Tabernacle
• East Ham Market Hall
• Red Door Studios
• Kenneth More Theatre
• Upminster Tithe Barn
• The White House
• Valence House Museum
• Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum
• The Florence Trust
• Putt in the Park
• University of East London
• Myq Kaplan: All Killing Aside
• Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care
• Laura Lexx: Trying
• Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Victim, Complex
• Tony Hinchcliffe
• Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace
• London’s best pisco sours
• John Hastings: Float Like a Butterfly, John Hastings Like a Bee
• The Delightful Sausage: Regeneration Game
• Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human
• Jayde Adams: The Divine Ms Jayde
• Danielle Walker: Bush Rat
• Amusical Valentine’s Show and Club Night
• Designing Time Out
• ‘No Show’ review
• ‘Leave to Remain’ review
• Deptford Heritage Festival
• Unhoused.org: a new way to help London’s homeless
• Things you only know if you’re a kitchen porter
• Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show
• ‘The Wider Earth’ review
• Sugar Cane
• Booze and Jerk BBQ Valentine's
• A Home Away from Home: The India Club
• Big Table, Big Heart Valentine's Supper
• Get Some Axe Appeal
• Andina Picantería
• What The Pitta Camden
• Make Your Own Valentine Zero Waste Gifts
• Heartbreak Hotel: Anti-Valentine's Day Extravaganza
• Heartbreak Hotel: The Breakup Party
• Sex Standing Up Comedy: Let's Make Lurve Valentine's Edition
• Valentine's Chocolate Cooking Class
• Adama Jalloh: the photographer shooting intimate portraits of black London
• These then-and-now images show the transformation of the Isle of Dogs
• There is a Field
• Meet the Londoner working to change the face of journalism
• Plosive Comedy in Dulwich with Nina Conti
• 22 must-go places in South Kensington
• Millennium Gloucester Hotel London
• ‘When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other’ review
• Mele e Pere
• The Snooty Fox
• Soho’s original Patisserie Valerie has closed
• Late-night opening hours at London museums and galleries
• London Pisco Week
• Hanger & Cellar
• Gunmakers
• Art and Beer Trail
• A Vegan Indian Feast
• Mikkeller Bar
• Tupi (Elephant and Castle)
• Flykick
• Ambit Issue Launch
• Soulful Suppers
• The best farmers’ markets in London
• The Westminster Ghost Walk
• Tate Tap Takeover x The Five Points Brewing Company
• Lillie's Gin Palace
• An Elegant Fusion
• 5 of the best things to see at Chinese Arts Now Festival
• ‘Dear Elizabeth’ review
• Celebrate Curzon Soho’s 60th birthday with a series of special screenings
• It’s showtime! ODEON Luxe Leicester Square has relaunched
• Lupita
• Here’s a complete list of the 2019 Oscar nominations
• Spit and Sawdust
• Prince Charming
• Rosie Jones: Fifteen Minutes
• Beth Vyse as Olive Hands in The Hand That Rocked the Cradle
• Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior
• Catherine Bohart: Immaculate
• South West Four
• Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter
• Cake
• Garrett Millerick: Sunflower
• Kourtney Kardashian
• dressed.
• Keith? A Comedy
• Giant Steps Record Fair
• Be Body Positive
• Late at Tate Britain: Don’t Worry
• Planet Party
• Beautiful Monsters with The Embers Collective
• Mien Tay
• The Good Life Eatery
• Roka Aldwych
• Antepliler
• ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ review
• ‘Nine Night’ review
• ‘Songs for Nobodies’ review
• ‘Asphodel Meadows/ The Two Pigeons’ review
• This is not a (Drizzy) drill! Drake just announced a load of live shows at The O2
• Red Farm
• Imperial Treasure
• Din Tai Fung
• Best shows to see at Vault Festival 2019
• JUST ANNOUNCED: Celine Dion is playing Hyde Park!
• Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge
• Flavour Bastard
• Burns, baby, Burns! Celebrate Burns Night in London with disco whisky drinks
• Spa Experience
• Londoners with stressful jobs share their tips for staying calm
• Gilles Peterson is launching a sweet new music festival
• WenLin Chinese New Year Fair
• Mariage Frères
• Chinese New Year Family Celebration
• Waltham Forest Town Hall
• Six totally free things to do in London this week
• China Lates
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Stockwell Playhouse
• Lloyd Park
• Colour House Theatre
• General Eyewear Archive
• Feast of St George
• Now Play This at Home
• Who ya gonna call? King’s Cross has been invaded by fluorescent green slime
• Chinese Arts Now Festival
• Pay attention, 007: More tickets are going onsale for Secret Cinema’s ‘Casino Royale’
• Leave London for an overnight snooze in an ancient church
• ‘The Unreturning’ review
• Things you only know if you’re a hotel manager
• Tamales Festival
• Aga Khan Centre
• UK Cold Water Swimming Championships
• Experience ‘How to Train Your Dragon 3’ in a secret Viking village
• Turn up the Archive
• An artist is playing Toto’s ‘Africa’ in the desert… forever
• ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ review
• Sky Pod
• Relax, Fabric’s not closing (again)
• Ladies & Gentlemen opens bar number two in a Camden toilet
• Rufus Wainwright
• Gabrielle
• Robyn
• ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’
• The Duke of Hamilton
• Foster London
• Giorgio Moroder
• It's Hot, It's Not
• Rok Islington
• Weather alert: it could (properly) snow in London next week
• Abuelo
• Sea Girls
• Alan Partridge Bingo
• Extraveganza: A Vegan Street Food Party
• Zero Waste Vegan January Supper Club
• Lady of the Grapes
• Hendrix Talks
• Wasted Chic Young Designer and Vintage Market
• Childish Gambino
• Sherlock Holmes' Birthday at the Ivy Cafe
• Yoga Under the Sea
• The Internet
• Need Street Food pop-up at Gipsy Hill Brewing Co.
• ‘Darkness, A Cultural History’
• WaterAid presents ‘The Water Effect’
• Nicki Minaj
• Dash Cafe: Songs of the Migrant Worker
• Billie Eilish
• Indiebeer
• ‘Pinter Five’ review
• ‘Pinter Six’ review
• Shape
• Lunar Legends Life Drawing
• Oval Space gets Framed
• ‘Mean Girls’ Quote-A-Long
• Vegan Cheese and Wine Party
• In pictures: Winter Lights at Canary Wharf is making the business district twinkle
• V&A Friday Late: ‘All to Play For’
• ‘Rosenbaum's Rescue’ review
• Stecca
• An ice-skating with penguins event has been cancelled after a backlash from animal rights charities
• ‘In the Winter Wood’ review
• Mind The Game
• Cirque Éloize: Hotel
• German Cornejo's Tango Fire
• Take the plunge! Where to try cold water swimming in London this week
• The Archers
• The People's Forest
• The People's Forest: GIANT
• Molecules on the Marshes
• From Page to Pavement
• Paint Jam Pop! Warhol x Bowie
• Bauhaus Centenary
• Seeds of Change Commission
• Chingford May Day Fayre
• Fera at Claridge's
• English Civil War Re-Enactment
• Travel bookshop Stanfords has moved after more than 100 years
• Africa Express: Circus
• Re-Textured Festival
• Meet Bobby Seagull: the east London genius fighting for Britain to love maths
• Macbeth
• Walthamstow Jazz Festival
• The Government Art Collection
• One Hoe Street
• Waltham Forest Tours
• ‘Summer and Smoke’ review
• ‘World’s best bar’ Dandelyan makes way for new bar Lyaness
• EastSide Story
• ‘Company’ review
• ‘Stop and Search’ review
• Leyton Sports Ground
• Violet
• A festival exploring ‘new masculinity’ is launching in London tonight
• One Hoe Street
• ‘Approaching Empty’ review
• The Green
• Where to find the best stargazing spots in London
• Wicked Vegan
• General Eyewear Laboratories
• Skepta, Jorja Smith, Diplo, Todd Terje and Octavian set for Field Day this year
• Science Fiction Theatre presents: ‘The Caller’ (1987)
• The year of our Lord: why Andrew Lloyd Webber is going to own 2019
• Simmons Mornington Crescent
• Simmons Liverpool Street
• Simmons Fitzrovia
• Piazza Restaurant
• This map shows London’s top meal deliveries of 2018
• Rooftop Astronomy
• Dark Skies Sky Gazing at Down House
• Stargazing with Walton Astronomy Group
• Stargazing with Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society
• Kenley Observatory
• ‘In Lipstick’ review
• Simon Munnery: La Concepta
• Plosive Comedy in Dulwich with Tim Key
• Zero heroes: the best alcohol-free cocktails in London
• Crouch End area guide
• Filming East Festival
• 575 Wandsworth Road
• Chinese New Year Lion Dance at Asia House
• Boston Manor House
• Frankenstein
• Art Supper Club: Celebrating Chinese New Year and The Spirit of Soho
• Holocaust Memorial Day
• ‘Calm The F**k Down’ with Sarah Knight
• Croydon Central Library
• Mad Atelier
• The Monstrous Child
• Katya Kabanova
• ‘The Favourite’ Costume Display at Hampton Court Palace
• ‘Les Mis’ is going to be restaged, and some people aren’t very happy about it
• TRIO ConcertDance
• La Traviata CANCELLED
• Waltham Forest is being bathed in light tonight and it looks incredible
• The Queen of Spades
• Mitsuryu
• Chinese New Year Fair
• 52 of the world's best young art galleries are coming to London this weekend, all for free
• Extraveganza
• Draw Me Close
• La Bodega Negra (café)
• Things you only know if you’re a vegan chef
• ‘The War of the Worlds’ review
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Secret Garden Storytelling Around the Fire
• Get Your Head in the Game
• Burns Night Celebrations at Craft London
• A Modern Burns Night Supper
• Are Londoners really drinking less?
• Escape Land
• Six totally free things to do in London this week
• Community Ceilidh
• The nine art exhibitions you need to see in 2019
• C Food
• Clockjack Oven
• Mennula
• Railroad
• Miss Chu
• Burns' Night at Cutty Sark
• Hummus Bros
• Dandy Café
• Archie's Bar
• Native
• New World
• Encant
• Dirty Burger
• HK Diner
• Gastro
• Bodo's Schloss
• Top Dog Diner
• The Richmond
• Stockpot
• Skylight Winter Rooftop's Burns Night Closing Party
• Beatroot
• Street Kitchen
• Temple and Sons
• Donostia Social Club
• Blue Elephant
• Caviar Kaspia
• Paradise Garage
• 100 Islington
• Burns Down the House
• A door-to-door Aperol spritz service is set to brighten Blue Monday in London
• Shanghai Blues
• Streetwise Opera Burns Night Ceilidh
• Abasto
• Burns Night at Fortnum and Mason
• Barnyard
• Twelfth Night
• Almeida
• Ganapati South Indian Kitchen
• Rita's
• Nahm
• Foxlow Chiswick
• Kricket (Pop Brixton)
• 8 Hoxton Square
• Big Red
• We're Staying Right Here
• Grain Store
• Bread Ahead
• Nama
• Mongolian Grill
• Madame D
• The Lockhart
• Brooksby's Walk
• Smoking Goat
• Zucca
• Meet the Londoner who founded Europe’s first BAME orchestra
• True West
• My Dad's Gap Year
• Wine Wharf
• The Colton's Supper Club: Burns Night
• The Rhythm and Booze Project Bermondsey Burns Night
• Yauatcha City
• Little Nan’s Bar is launching an ‘Eastenders’ obsessed south London pub
• Hippity Hop
• Watch ‘A Star is Born’ underneath a giant whale this Valentine’s
• Sam. The Good Person
• Vintage and Retro Tribe Market
• Plogolution
• Eurostar is selling tickets to Paris for only £29
• The Orchestra
• Winter Happiness Festival
• 7 low-impact fitness classes to ease you into the New Year
• ‘Paradise’ review
• FLY LDN
• A huge, secret ‘ice house’ has been discovered under London
• The best low-ABV London beers
• No 67
• Balls & Company
• Taberna do Mercado
• The Manor
• CHICKENliquor
• 10 of the best fitness and wellbeing festivals in London this year
• The Brewhouse
• The Taproom at London Fields Brewery
• London’s best ethical fashion shops
• Wolf & Badger
• Bethnal Green’s best-loved coffee vendor needs your help
• This London theatre company puts marginalised women’s stories on stage
• Punk Flea Market and Car Boot Sale
• The Annual Peep Show Quiz
• A Feminist’s Guide to Dinosaurs
• Secret Urban Suppers: Brooklyn, New York
• Most Googled: does London have a flag?
• Osterley NightRun
• Betsy's Closet Swap Shop
• ‘Wiltshire Before Christ’
• The Future of Renting
• Acoustic Night on The Golden Hinde
• Bushcraft Skills: Campfire Building
• Midweek Mulberries: Belsize Park to Hampstead
• Natural Born Storytellers
• Boom Jungle
• Buddhist Centre Open Day
• Six totally free things to do in London this week
• Collective Cinema
• Rise Up: Community Open Mic for Poets, Rappers, Singers and Storytellers
• Jive Party at the Rivoli Ballroom
• Folk Of The Wood's Burns Night Ceilidh
• An astrologer reveals your (cultural) horoscope for 2019
• Fulham Palace Garden Walk
• Anomaly
• Original Death Rabbit
• The Fat Walrus
• London Kilt Run
• Matty Matheson: The Greatest Cookbook Tour of All Time Dinner
• Burns Night Supper
• Burns Night London
• Behind the Scenes Tours at Tower Bridge
• Perfect Liars Club
• Festival of New Masculinity
• Full Moon Ritual with She’s Lost Control and Wolf Sister
• Abbey Bar
• Rosendale
• Abbevilles Restaurant
• Ping Pong Concert
• London Beer Week
• Earth Hour
• Slow Craft: Reuse and Creativity In Textiles
• Winter Dip
• ‘Time is Love’ review
• Bumper Cars on Ice
• Things you only know if you’re a stage manager
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• This is what the City of London skyline will look like in 2026
• You can now fly to New York from London for less than £145
• ‘Labyrinth’ Masquerade Ball
• Stuff!
• Ballroom Get Down
• In pictures: when London Zoo counts up the animals for its annual stocktake
• Some of London’s fanciest bars are serving free (and alcohol-free) cocktails this January
• London Mari Lwyd: Traditional Welsh New Year Celebration
• Teatulia
• Kiki Mellék's Starkers Academy
• Drag Quiz at The Duck and Rice
• Tap 13
• Franco Manca
• Below 20
• Sean Morley: I Apologise for My Recent Behaviour
• Stand-up comedy on Netflix: the best streaming specials
• In pictures: London’s New Year’s Day Parade 2019
• There’s a screening of that AMAZING Bros doc next week
• An Enemy of the People
• Coming Clean
• Pamban Chai and Coffee House
• Music & Beans