Plus, why you REALLY shouldn’t stand up your reservations and we say farewell to the National Theatre’s online plays |
Time In No. #31 | Thu 16 July 2020 | Issue No. #2589 Unsubscribe Me | View Online
We put your questions to the mayor
One of the good things about being The Famous London Magazine Time Out is our direct line to the city’s mayor. Sometimes we call Sadiq up just to idly chit chat about nothing for hours. Often, he’ll complain about being ‘busy’ or ‘in a meeting with 15 world leaders’, but he knows the score. We used this power most recently by putting to him questions sourced from some of our favourite London businesses, makers and creators. The Big Man addressed their concerns about our fine city’s post-Covid future.
Fingers on buzzers
What event led to the Proms being moved to their permanent home at the Royal Albert Hall in 1941?
Incoming: streaming stuff for your diary
Thursday, 7pm Watch the final National Theatre at Home
The National Theatre’s weekly free-to-stream plays have been a shining cultural beacon in the dark depths of lockdown – so much so, they were voted the cultural initiative that made life worth living in our Time In Awards. Alas, 15 productions and tens of millions of views later, the series is coming to an end, but going out with bang. The final play is ‘Amadeus’ starring brilliant National Theatre regular Lucian Msamati with a live orchestra playing Mozart’s greatest hits. Basically, an epic double whammy of highbrow culture to see us off.
The best of the rest:
Saturday and Sunday Lambeth Country Show’s sheep-shearing, wood-whittling, potent local cider and live music is going online. There’ll even be a virtual Vegetable Sculpture Competition, so you can still see the great and good of popular culture, recreated out of turnips and swedes.

Thursday, 7.30pm We’ll all be getting down, dirty and digital in the future, according to the Science Museum. They’ve gathered a panel of experts to discuss the role science and tech is set to play in our sex lives.

Friday, 6.30pm Join Charmaine Brown, senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich, who’ll be giving a Zoom talk that has the lowdown on Peckham’s history and how African-Caribbean people revitalised SE15 long before ‘regeneration’ hit.

Check out our full list of the day’s best events, updated every day
PSA: stop being so damn flakey
Picture the scene: you fancy some honest-to-God restaurant food, so you book yourself a sterilised table at your nearest socially distanced eaterie. But then something happens. You get cold feet. What if they’ve run out of anti-bacterial spray? What if a waiter sneezes into your open mouth? Probably best to just not show up, right? Wrong. So wrong, buddy. We spoke to a load of our restaurant pals and found out why reservation no-shows are a massive problem for their industry right now.
More quality for your quarantine
Turning Napolese
The Dairy’s Robin Gill on a surprisingly romantic three-ingredient pasta dish
Meet a hero
Get to know the volunteer helping keep a Wandsworth food bank going
Rat attack
If you don’t yet have an opinion on ‘the new Banksy’ are you even a Londoner?
Bab boy
Our in-house vegetarian (lapsed) experiments with a London kebab
Time Out asks
Show us your mask face
‘A mask that ties as a big bow in the back!’
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‘Ten extra points if you can spot the tube line inaccuracies’
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Feelgood links to ease the pain
The glory of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’, but in the bath
Twitter

The gritty, grim and great history of Chinatown’s Gerrard Street, in photos
www.flashbak.com

Old folks recreate classic album covers
Twitter

The ’90s UK festival line-up generator! As good as it sounds
www.monkeon.co.uk
 
Why we’re all so obsessed with that ‘everything is cake’ meme
www.inverse.com
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