January 2023

• Pod Live Sport
• London Handel Festival
• An erotic odyssey through London’s sexy restaurants
• The Man of Aran
• Lara Ricote: GRL/LATINX/DEF
• BriTANick
• Mannions Prince Arthur
• ICA 75th Anniversary: P-R-E-S-E-N-T
• The Life Goddess Store Street
• Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird?
• Jazz Emu: You Shouldn't Have
• Now on the market: an amazing flat at the top of St Pancras station
• Old Spitalfields Market
• Piccadilly Piano Festival
• ‘Lucky Number 8’
• Grimaldi Service
• The UK’s first charity-shop department store has opened in Brent Cross
• Finsbury Park’s iconic Sylvanian Families shop is closing after 30 years
• Here’s how to get tickets for Madonna’s London shows
• Harlots and Strumpets and Tarts, Oh My! Valentines Special
• Why is everyone in London getting bitten right now?
• Is it just us or… is London covered in rubbish?
• Catherine Cohen: Come for Me
• Big Penny Social's Valentine's Variety
• Vintage Planet
• Genesis Seoul Racer
• Avora: A New World Cocktail Experience
• Amanda from ‘The Traitors’ is hosting a ‘betray ball’ at Two Brewers tonight
• Daniel Sloss: Can't
• Live at the Chapel with Dylan Moran
• Ivo Graham: My Future My Clutter
• John Kearns: The Varnishing Days
• Oh dear: turns out that HS2 might not actually reach central London
• Everything you need to know about this year’s new blue plaques in London
• Bar Kroketa
• The Bar at the Dorchester
• 40/40
• Saint Jude
• Ballet Icons Gala
• Secret Things / Everyone Keeps Me
• The Sacrifice
• Hackney plans to turn three-quarters of its roads into LTNs
• New report says London is the best city in Europe for street art
• Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen
• Mohammed Sami: The Point 0
• ‘Peaky Blinders: The Rise’ review
• Notting Hill Carnival founder Claudia Jones is getting a blue plaque
• Akub
• ‘Sound of the Underground’ review
• The Museum of London is bringing the Donald Trump baby blimp back
• ‘Noises Off’ review
• Wilderness
• The best sex toys to buy online for Valentine's Day
• Black Boy Lane street sign vandalised after Tottenham road is renamed
• Magic of India: Holi colour dance party
• Clyde Hopkins: ‘Paintings 1989-1993’
• Antoni Tapies
• Brunello Bar and Restaurant
• There’s a major immersive Disney exhibition coming to London
• Why London’s ingredient of the year is yuzu
• ‘Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial’ review
• Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal is heading to the West End with the Almeida’s acclaimed ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
• GALA Festival
• The Dorchester hotel has a brand new James Bond-inspired bar
• A brand new theatre has just opened in Elephant & Castle
• Aphex Twin will headline Field Day 2023
• Jacuzzi
• Flies
• South London could be getting new public spaces the size of 194 football pitches
• We saw the Yayoi Kusama robot at Louis Vuitton and it’s terrifying
• Happy Meal
• Home X
• Half-Term at the London Transport Museum
• Postal Museum Tunnel Walks
• Bootycandy
• Big Penny Beer Fest
• One Who Wants to Cross
• Half-Term Design Camps at The Design Museum
• My Brother’s Keeper
• The Beach House
• Akedah
• Dip & Flip
• Super cheap, entirely delicious meals for under £7
• Jonathan Baldock: ‘We Are Flowers of One Garden’
• Someone has renamed east London’s tube stations in cockney
• Pizza East Portobello
• Crybabies: ‘Bagbeard’ review
• Tozi Grand Cafe
• Cecconi's (Shoreditch)
• Duet for One
• Windfall
• The Oyster Problem
• Battle of the Buns – a Lunar New Year showdown
• West End theatres might be the next to go on strike
• Studio Limbo Candle Making and Painting Workshop
• Anti-Valentine’s Cabaret
• Liverpool Street station could be getting a serious glow-up
• Unlucky
• PopHorror Anti Valentine’s Ball
• The Camden Highline is finally happening
• Valentine’s Dinner in the Painted Hall
• Valentine’s Day at Sky Garden
• ‘how did we get here?’ review
• David Copperfield
• Breathless
• Smoke
• Drift Limits
• Beauty giant Sephora is finally returning to London
• Yet another beloved London restaurant has closed down
• Cirque du Soleil: ‘Kurios – Cabinet of Curiosities’ review
• Alex Edelman: ‘Just for Us’ review
• London gem Pollock’s Toy Museum says it must close
• Jenkin Van Zyl: ‘Surrender’
• Pastada
• Chet’s
• The Globe has announced its summer season (and the first ever price rise to its standing tickets)
• Josie Rourke: ‘I stopped being an artistic director in the hope I could do life things’
• ‘George Takei’s Allegiance’ review
• 10 legendary West End restaurants to visit after the theatre
• Rules
• Guinea
• Controversial Soho club The Windmill wants to bring back naked dancers
• Brixton Academy has had its licence suspended for three months after crowd crush deaths
• There’s a new exhibition of photos of the Queen and her corgis
• ‘Spain and the Hispanic World’ review
• The best cinemas in London for a date
• The Cinema in the Power Station
• How a neighbourhood meme went global: the fascinating story of Nat Has Herpes
• Gigantic shimmering bubbles will be appearing across the City this week
• Two out of five trains in London were disrupted last year
• It might snow again in London this week
• Suchard
• The nine best live podcast shows in London this year
• ‘Aspects of Love’ review
• Nutbourne
• How to use 2023’s bank holidays to get the most out of our time off
• Old Kent Road might be getting a brand new lido
• Half-term in London
• We win again: London named best city in the world to visit in 2023
• Liberty London is hosting its first ever in-store sample sale
• London Fashion Week
• Evening Ceilidh with Wee Movers and Deeney’s
• Tandoor Chop House x Auld Hag: Haggis Keema Naan
• Paul Mescal will star in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ at the Almeida
• Spiritland
• Blur
• 5 shows to see at the London International Mime Festival 2023
• The Games We Play
• Flesh
• Feste
• London’s best new galleries
• 2023’s first newborn at London Zoo is a healthy two-toed sloth
• Battersea Power Station Light Festival is back this month
• Triptych (The Missing Door, The Lost Room and The Hidden Floor)
• Kangnam Pocha
• Famous Puppet Death Scenes
• Arsenal has unveiled the artwork for the outside of Emirates Stadium
• Are the Parthenon Marbles actually leaving London?
• An apartment in the grade I-listed Isokon Building could be yours
• Jason
• Ronnie Scott’s wants your unwanted musical instruments for deprived schools
• An Ice Thing to Say
• Caceroleo
• You Shall Not Yass
• High Steaks
• Jawdance
• Burns on the Barge
• Rotunda Burns Night
• Burns Night at Skylight Rooftop Tobacco Dock
• Bourne & Hollingsworth Burns Night Party
• Mount St Restaurant Burns Night Supper
• Dinner Ladies’ Chinese New Year Feast
• Dan Flavin: ‘colored fluorescent light’
• Bao Lunar New Year 2023
• Tan Dun’s ‘Buddha Passion’
• There’s a big campaign to save the famous Hampstead Antique Emporium
• ‘On the Ropes’ review
• ‘Watch on the Rhine’ review
• A 200-year-old pub in London Bridge has just closed without explanation
• ‘It was like being in a sci-fi movie’: Londoners share their favourite memories of the Trocadero
• The Mistake
• How Not to Drown
• London’s traffic is STILL the worst in the world
• Welcome Home
• London’s getting a huge new photography gallery
• The Elephant Song
• We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants
• The Boys are Kissing
• The Star by Liverpool Street
• 2023 Cazoo Masters
• Saravana Bhavan
• The Ginger Pig
• The Ex Show with Xnthony
• Valentine’s Silent Disco
• Hamlet
• Joseph Yaeger: ‘Time Weft’
• If you do one thing in 2023… learn to sew
• St John Marylebone
• Fabled Holland Park celeb hangout Julie’s has closed after 53 years
• Le Bab, Old Street
• Princi
• John Mulaney: From Scratch
• Stand Up With Women!
• 21Soho
• Patti Harrison
• What's happening with the tube and bus price hikes?
• Sheeps: Ten Years, Ten Laughs
• Angler
• EVE Riot Grrrls of Wrestling
• Wassail in the Pleasaunce
• No Trousers On The Tube Ride
• Club Mexicana, Spitalfields
• ‘Salt-Water Moon’ review
• Locals are sharing their biggest London icks
• The Instrumentals
• The Trial of Josie K
• Is this London’s best-value home on the market right now?
• Prince Bonaparte
• Through the Grapevine
• Spectrum
• Madonna’s secret 40th-anniversary greatest-hits tour is coming to London
• Swan Lake
• Leggero
• All creatures great and small: London Zoo is doing its annual stocktake 2023
• Oriole
• Sticky Fingers
• These are the best new hotels coming to London in 2023
• RuPaul’s DragCon UK
• Will Elf Bars die in 2023?
• Now Elizabeth line rail workers are going on strike
• This is officially the best spa in London
• Go Ape Alexandra Palace
• Legendary Soho deli I Camisa & Son has been saved
• The No Trousers Tube Ride is happening again this January
• Romesh Ranganathan has done an epic vegan pizza collab with Yard Sale
• A legendary doughnut bakery is coming to London