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Time In Couchbound No. #15 | Issue No. #2581 My Preferences | View Online
What does the future hold for London’s bars and pubs?
Chances are you’ve recently walked past a favourite local pub, stopped in your tracks and just stared at it in mute melancholy. It’s hard to fathom that we’ve been without our warm, noisy alco-havens since March 20. It’s harder still to imagine what life may be like for them once they reopen*. Well, you don’t have to imagine. We’ve asked around and worked out what pubs and bars could look like once the booze begins to flow again.

*Just typing the word ‘reopen’ was a thrill, by the way.
Fingers on buzzers
In which London borough will you find the world’s oldest continuously running film studio?
Incoming: today’s streaming highlights
7pm Feel the raw heat of New Orleans
Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster. You’re already interested. Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster, acting together on the Young Vic stage. Now you’re salivating. Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster, acting together in Tennessee Williams’s greatest (that’s a fact) play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, on the Young Vic stage. Now your head’s gone. You’re fist-pumping the air and hooting with delight. You must see it. You will see it. Tonight.
The best of the rest

10am The V&A’s stonking kimono exhibition goes online,with curator Anna Jackson taking you through each exhibit.

4pm Children’s illustrator Rob Biddulph is hosting (hopefully) the world’s biggest drawing class. With your help!

10pm Radiohead unleash another mystery concert from their twitchy archives.

Check out our full list of virtual highlights, updated every day.
Apparently burgers can be improved
We rounded up a greasy handful of chefs and asked them for tips on levelling up a home-delivered hamburger. Because, as consistent as the whole bun-cheese-meat-bun thing usually is, sometimes one arrives that could do with a bit of pepping up. Who doesn’t love pep? Get ready for multiple references to ‘meat juices’ and that eternal kitchen
fave tabasco.
Vital London venues in need
Royal Vauxhall Tavern
The LGBTQ+ haven needs help fast if it’s going to survive the crisis
The Clapham Grand
The beloved venue has to raise £40,000 if it’s to avoid closure
The George Tavern
Staring down closure is par for the course for this Stepney legend. This might be its greatest challenge, however
Omeara
The Mumford & Sons brainchild is holding a raffle to raise funds. Prizes include fancy merch and tickets to future events
Time Out asks
What kind of critters have you seen out and about on your journeys?  
‘A local walk around Harold Hill in Essex - It’s the first time I’ve been able to walk fairly close to them’
@rhyssmith55
‘Heron in Tottenham’ 


@Welshinldn
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Feelgood links to ease the pain
Drone footage of a mind-blowing butterfly swarm
YouTube

A fairly exhaustive list of links to Peel Sessions to dig through
www.davestrickson.blogspot.com

Someone’s invented a mask you can wear while eating, and it’s horrifying
Twitter

Guess whether a word is a Tolkien character or an antidepressant drug
www.antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh
 
The cast of ‘Community’ (including Donald Glover!) get together for a Zoom table read
YouTube
 
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