Things to in London: August edition
From family days out to the best cultural events London has to offer, take a look at our guide to making the most of the capital this August
William Eggleston portraits, National Portrait Gallery ★★★★★
Would you rather go deaf or blind?
Looking at the photographs of William Eggleston, you know the answer. His work exults in seeing: colour, shade, the way sunlight moves.
Read more ...Let's talk Brexit: Talk by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz
It's been just over a month now since Brexit shook the world. And in the midst of such uncertainty, we've been asking some key questions. What will the future of burrata and escargots be on the menus of
Read more ...Meat Free week with Anna Jones, Grain Store
It's summer in London, so wherever we go, the alluring, ancient scent of cooking meat fills the air, pulling people into pub gardens or towards food stalls. No one wants a skewered pepper.
If you're veggie, veg-curious or just after something a little different, we'
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, National Theatre
It'll be girls gone wild this summer at the National's Dorfman Theatre as this riotous 'play meets gig' about a sextet of Catholic school girls who are far from god-fearing comes to London. Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour was talk of the 2015 Fringe, then
Read more ...Notting Hill Carnival 2016
For two days every summer, the leafy, distinguished quiet of West London’s ice-cream coloured squares is blown apart. On August Bank Holiday weekend, Carnival comes to Notting Hill, bringing with it goat curry, steel drums, rum punch, coconuts, jerk chicken and a whole lot of joy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Love and War, Southbank Centre
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is the Nigerian writer who stole the hearts of the English-speaking world with some of the best writing of the last decade. Her books are full of hard-edged heroines, often caught between continents, navigating issues of race and gender prejudice, and she is best known
Read more ...946 - The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, Globe Theatre, London
Based on beloved children's author Michael Morpurgo's novel The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, 946 is coming to The Globe this summer.
Michael Morpurgo's stories are regularly adapted for the stage -- and are more often then not prove to be turn
Tickled documentary 2016
Are you a secret fan
of 'Competitive Endurance Tickling'? We can understand why you might keep
quiet about it if you are.
On the off-chance that it’s
not your thing – or maybe you’ve never heard of it, innocent creature – we’ll
give you the heads-
Read more ...Eneko restaurant, One Aldwych, Covent Garden
Thank goodness it's nearly here! This hotly anticipated Basque restaurant at One Aldwych hotel comes from chef Eneko Atxa, whose three-Michelin Aurmendi restaurant in Bilbao, Spain, is no.16 in the World's Top 50 Restaurants. And for the month of August you can dine at his London
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