Highlights

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images – exhibition at the V&A . Beyond the V&A’s ornate and magnificently high-ceilinged walls lie an extraordinary wealth of historical and cultural displays. Indeed, you’d best plan your day around just one exhibition, or you’ll be there all week! And why not plan that visit around the Jameel Prize: Moving […]

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Features

London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places

What’s in a name? London place names decoded We’re surrounded by street signs every day and casually type these sometimes odd-sounding addresses into Google Maps without a second thought about what they mean or where the name came from. The Romans founded the city of Londinium [London], so you’d expect a Latin root somewhere. Let’s […]

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Reviews

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images – exhibition at the V&A . Beyond the V&A’s ornate and magnificently high-ceilinged walls lie an extraordinary wealth of historical and cultural displays. Indeed, you’d best plan your day around just one exhibition, or you’ll be there all week! And why not plan that visit around the Jameel Prize: Moving […]

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Highlights

  • DragWorld London 2018
    The Return of Drag Queens: DragWorld London 2018
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, People, Unused

    DragWorld, Europe’s largest Drag Convention returns to the UK after last year’s successful debut in London, where 11,000 tickets were sold and fans from as far as Australia, United Arab Emirates, USA and Japan all flocked in for the popular Drag experience. Set in London’s Olympia Convention Hall, DragWorld gets ready to welcome over 15,000 avid hardcore fans and […]

  • Mariarchi The Tequila Festival
    The Tequila Festival Returns to London on August 4th
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights

    The Tequila Festival toured the UK last year and fans of the infamous drink made from the blue Agave plant came from far and wide to enjoy the range of drinks, food and entertainment on offer. The festival returns to London for a second year on August 4th as it lands at Acklam Village in […]

  • Free Ice Cream in London!
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights

    Have you been frustrated lately to find ice cream tubs rapidly disappear off the frozen shelves at almost all supermarkets you visit? Exciting news! As temperatures soar, Jude’s ice cream is going to celebrate by giving away 4,000 mini tubs of ice cream in Soho. What makes this news even more exciting is that ten of […]

  • British Sandwich Week
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights

    BRITISH SANDWICH WEEK May 20- 26 may have caught many of you unawares, what with the constant influx of National Days, Weeks and Months celebrating everything from the capital’s cocktails to fast food chicken wings, but there are still a few days left to honour the humble British sarnie. The sandwich was named after the […]

  • Hot Male 2018
    Posted in: Highlights

    WHAT’S HOT LONDON? is bucking the fashion trend and seeking the less represented in the fashion and modelling industry. So if you’re male, aged 40-65 and see yourself as the Hot Male of 2018 why not enter our competition? Life doesn’t end at middle-age and we aim to prove this by providing you with the […]

  • Museums at Night: Artist Rachel Howard at Newport Street Gallery
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

    Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will be opening late for Museums at Night May 16-19.  Galleries and museums all over the UK will be extending their opening hours for talks, workshops and special events. Rachel Howard conducts a tour of her Repetition is Truth exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery and enlightens about how her large-scale […]

  • London Wine Week 2018
    Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights

    Those in the know amongst the capital’s wine connoisseurs would have marked London Wine Week 2018 in their summer diaries and headed for this seven-day festival’s hub at Flat Iron Square, Bankside. This Borough foodie yard will be hosting pop up bars from the likes of Muscadet from the Loire Valley and Spanish rose wine […]

  • Kew Gardens This Spring and Summer
    Posted in: Highlights, Places

    KEW GARDENS was originally the private woodlands and riding grounds surrounding Kew Palace, King George III’s convalescence home,  and the red-bricked state residence is still on the land despite being sold off by Queen Victoria. Today Kew is in the news because of the £18 million restoration of Temperate House which was recently reopened by […]

  • Sci Fi London 2018
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows

    Droids, jedis and stormtroopers took to the streets of Stratford, East London on the opening day of Sci-Fi London a film festival which screens the best of shorts and features in the genre. The festival opened with Chimera, a thriller about a disturbed scientist in a race against time to save his dying children. Star […]