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| Don’t pretend you’re not excited… PUBS are reopening this weekend | In Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’, people’s souls are animal avatars called ‘daemons’. Londoners don’t have daemons. Londoners have pubs. The Farrow & Ball gastro shack. The sticky-carpeted, ‘free pool’ local. The ‘Downfall’-style estate bunker. The one with plants. All have their place in London’s boozy pantheon, and all have been shut for months. That’s about to change, as our boozers are coming back . Not as they were, all jostly and full of loud berks shoving twenties at the barman. You’ll have to keep apart and you may have to book a table. But you will be able to buy a pint. In a pub. And drink it. In a pub. And then do it again. Hallelujah! Here’s where to raise a glass… |
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Fingers on buzzers The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich has doubled as which famous building in the movies? |
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Incoming: streaming stuff for your diary | | Tonight, 7pm The Rules of Contagion at The Royal Institution | When it comes to viruses, outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics and other by-now-all-too-familiar infectious goings-on, Adam Kucharski is metaphorically up to his elbows in ’em. The associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who worked on the ebola nightmare (remember that one?), is giving this live talk from the Royal Institution in which he considers the curious – often apparently random – courses that diseases take. Everyone’s a flipping expert these days, so why not hear from an actual expert for a change? | The best of the rest: | Until Thursday, 7pm Brienne of Tarth – aka Gwendoline Christie – heads up a ravey take on Shakespeare’s barmy ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Today, noon Want something else to worry about? How about volcanoes? The Natural History Museum talks through the science of exploding mountains. Wednesday, 7pm Sketch monkeys with Wild Life Drawing. Be prepared for them to be better than you at art. Check out our full list of virtual highlights, updated every day |
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SPONSORED CONTENT | A love letter to… | Brixton. Dalston. Crouch End. Highbury... and a bunch more, which you can read here. As part of our Love Local campaign to celebrate and support independent venues, Time Out editors are reflecting on what makes their neighbourhoods so darn special. Is yours on the list? | |
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More quality for your quarantine | | It’s melon time | How to make a watermelon cooler with just three very tasty items | |
| Vital tech | Meet the Londoner getting electronic tablets to vulnerable folks in care homes | |
| | Housemate hassle | The final straight of lockdown is not the time for allowing petty grievances to pull apart your home | |
| Drag delights | Miss our chatty Pride video party with Sink the Pink? You should catch up right now | |
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| ‘I’m not saying lockdown is getting to me... but I’ve just caught myself singing and dancing Justin Bieber’s “Yummy” to myself while doing the dishes’ | @NathanCaton | Overheard something weird or wonderful? Tweet us and you might see it here next week! | |
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Hey London, share the love! |
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Time Out has become Time In while our wonderful city is on lockdown. We are still dedicated to bringing you the best of London, even while London itself sits indoors for a while. Wherever you are in the city, if there's something happening, Time In will let you know about it. |
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