July 2020

• This tiny remote Scottish island is looking for new residents
• The world’s biggest illustration gallery will be in London
• Queer House Party: The Return
• Dominique Ansel to close both of his London restaurants
• Frederick's
• Watch outdoor cinema (without a car) this summer
• ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ to close ‘permanently’ in London
• Ciné-Real Presents: ‘King Kong’ (1933)
• Exclusive: Sundance London is back as a digital film festival
• Londoners recommend the books that have got them through lockdown
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Ioannis Grammenos’s oat energy bars
• Some of London’s biggest attractions are back this weekend
• The Halal Guys
• FYI, the best B&B in the world is in Devon
• Boris is handing out £50 vouchers to repair your bike
• The Tate Modern and Tate Britain reopen in London today
• This beach in Yorkshire has been named Britain’s best
• Socially distanced outdoor cinema is coming to London (no car required)
• Electric Dreams Online
• We reveal the winners of the Canary Wharf lockdown short story competition
• A new exhibition is celebrating 50 years since the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival
• See extraordinary photos of London’s empty theatres
• David Tennant’s West End play ‘Good’ has been delayed until 2021
• Gyms are reopening in London: here’s what you need to know
• Can this man become good at basketball in one week?
• Books, films and documentaries that will help you learn about anti-racism
• Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson are creating an alt tube map populated with iconic women
• Here’s exactly what’s reopened now in London
• View from the Frontline: the Londoners keeping the capital moving
• Sadiq Khan has launched an online course to help you brush up on your cycling skills
• ‘Monopoly’ and ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ announced for 2021
• Granary Square's grass steps are back in King’s Cross
• You can snooze right on the sand in this new Cornish campsite
• You might be able to commute to work in the fresh air on an open-top bus
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Adrian Hernandez Farina’s Dirty Cheese Toastie
• Picasso and Paper review
• The London Palladium trial of live theatre is going ahead this week
• London theatres given green light to reopen in August
• The Hoxton hotel has launched a pop-up countryside campsite
• Underbelly is putting on socially distanced street-food festivals now
• The grass steps are back in Granary Square from today
• Andrew Scott is performing new play ‘Three Kings’ from an empty Old Vic – and tickets are on sale today
• Seven Dials is being pedestrianised from next month
• Good news: rent in London is getting cheaper
• An expert reveals how to process back-to-work nerves
• Pret is launching its first vegan pastry counter
• The London Transport Museum shop is selling bits of old tube doorway
• See the punderful vegetable sculptures from the virtual Lambeth Country Show
• M&S is now selling Aperol spritz in a can
• The Beefeaters at the Tower of London are now facing redundancy
• Bubbledogs
• There was a ‘shark’ in the Thames – here’s how Londoners reacted
• The Fox & Pheasant
• National Theatre Live: updated YouTube streaming schedule for free plays every Thursday
• A BYOB crazy golf course is opening in east London
• A series of summer drive-in gigs have been cancelled over lockdown fears
• Are London’s all-new drive-in cinemas worth the petrol?
• Tanya Compas is changing the lives of Black queer young people in London (and beyond)
• Forget Zoom! You can now do these London pub quizzes in the flesh
• View from the Frontline: the food bank volunteer
• A Banksy face-mask work has appeared on the London Underground
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Robin Gill’s Pasta Nerano
• Buckingham Palace has released its own £40 gin
• Domestic violence charity Sistah Space is fighting to keep its premises
• Face masks to be made compulsory in shops in England
• Summer Science Exhibition Online
• Flying Ant Day hit London – here’s how the capital coped
• Lockdown Watchlist: Jason Isaacs shares what he’s streaming while stuck indoors
• Gym, swim and sauna? Here’s exactly what’s opening up next in London
• Lambeth Country Show is going virtual this year
• These places in the UK are trending for summer holiday bookings right now
• New cookbook ‘Community Comfort’ is raising funds for BAME Covid victims
• The Design Museum returns this month with an exhibition on electronic music
• London restaurateurs react to the £10 voucher scheme
• The best virtual movie clubs to see you through lockdown
• New Year’s Eve comedy in London
• A London distillery is delivering DIY Piña Colada kits
• London events you can stream online now
• Brixton Academy is putting on a series of virtual live gigs
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• London’s Cereal Killer Café won’t be reopening
• Meat, Reviewed: Will a lifelong veggie go wild for a doner kebab?
• Meat, Reviewed: A lifelong vegetarian tries meat for the first time
• Aubrey Beardsley review
• Andy Warhol review
• Titian: Love, Desire, Death
• Join Time Out and Instagram’s virtual festival supporting London’s amazing independent businesses
• Rate My Bake: An expert baker reviews Londoners’ lockdown sourdough
• Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory
• Masculinities: Liberation through Photography review
• Gauguin and the Impressionists
• Cao Fei: Blueprints review
• Time In Awards: the winners
• This is what London will look like in 12 months’ time
• View from the Frontline: the Covid ward nurse
• Lockdown Legends: the Londoners doing something amazing for the city right now
• Fringe! presents: Bona Rio! Dalston’s Fabulosa 80s Queertopia
• 11 things to do with kids to help them learn about racism
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Bettina Campolucci Bordi’s chickpea omelette
• Parts of London Underground should shut to halt spread of virus, say experts
• Hoxton’s The Shepherdess Café has closed after 37 years
• Feel like you’ve lost all your social energy? A psychologist explains how to deal
• Artwork by one of the victims of Grenfell will fill the windows of a building in Notting Hill
• Moon Festival Canada
• Chefs reveal the recipes for iconic London dishes
• Patty & Bun reveals the recipe for its confit chicken wings and BBQ sauce
• The UK is getting new pop-up campsites using bell tents from cancelled music festivals
• A landmark season of Black British cinema is coming to BFI Player
• The arts sector finally gets a £1.57bn government bailout – but what does it all mean?
• Pret is closing 30 of its UK branches
• Bao is launching a ‘nostalgic Chinese takeaway’ in Soho
• Marcus
• Sam Mendes and Netflix team up to help London’s struggling theatre workers
• Top cocktail bar Swift is launching a second London spot
• The Royal Opera House is streaming opera and ballet for free during lockdown
• Developing sexual expression and understanding intimacy
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Gabriel Pryce’s burnt tomato salsa
• What will London restaurants be like in the New Normal?
• View from the Frontline: the Covid ward doctor
• Black London restaurateurs reveal how their industry needs to change
• Wireless is throwing a virtual festival this weekend with Skepta, Stefflon Don and more
• Bernadine Evaristo has written a play for the Old Vic celebrating our NHS
• London is awake again, but something’s changed
• A protest calling for justice for the Windrush Generation is happening in London this weekend
• Bandcamp is hosting a virtual indie music market
• Watch National Theatre Live’s ‘Les Blancs’ for free this week
• How will camping in the UK be different this year?
• Brockley restaurant owner and cancer campaigner Saima Thompson has died
• This Cornish castle with a pool still has availability this summer
• A giant beer garden is opening in Walthamstow
• Will we be allowed to go camping in the UK this summer?
• Electric scooters will be legal to rent from Saturday to help social distancing
• The Jellied Eel
• Columbia Road Flower Market is back this Sunday
• Dishoom is back – and it’s taking bookings (no more queuing!)
• Hawksmoor has launched a UK-wide delivery service
• Exclusive: The Great Feast of London announces its full weekend line-ups
• 10 amazing houses near London for weekends away with friends
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