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It’s a dispute that will never truly be settled. North versus south, east versus west – Londoners are steadfast in their opinion of what part of the city is the best to live in. We’ll unashamedly spend hours over a pint fighting about where has the best pubs, the coolest vibes, the nicest green spaces and the best value for money.  Now, the Sunday Times has weighed in on the debate. In its list of the 72 best places to live across the UK for 2024, the newspaper included seven London neighbourhoods and chose an overall winner for the region. And the victor for 2024 was... Clerkenwell, home to the likes of Exmouth Market and Sadler’s Wells theatre.  The Times said of the area: ‘From a rich past of riot and ribaldry to its present status at the heart of the capital’s culinary and creative scenes, Clerkenwell embodies all that’s best about life in London.’ To make sure that they really were picking the best of the best, judges travelled to each and every location on this year's round-up and spoke to locals themselves. Areas were ranked based on stuff like schools, transport, access to nature, the health of their high street and their community feel.  Tim Palmer, one of the judges, said: ‘Different people may be looking for different things, but what all our best places have in common is that people love living in them and are proud to call them home.’ Clerkenwell took the title from last year’s winner Crouch End, which still managed to claim a spot this year for cramming ‘an asto

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It’s officially the first weekend of Spring. That’s right, we made it through the rough Great British winter and now you can reward yourself by hitting up all of London’s new season of theatre, art and events.  There are some cultural treats in store this week, including Raven Row’s five-star art show ‘Some May Work As Symbols’, which according to Time Out’s art critic is a ‘gorgeous, in-depth, museum-quality’ exploration of mid-century Brazilian art. There are also glittering Ramadan light displays to spot across the city, an inaugural literature festival at Ally Pally to visit with some wonderful speakers, beautiful ceramics markets to browse and a film fest dedicated to Italian cinema to get stuck into.  Still got gaps in your diary? Embrace the warmer days with a look at the best places to see spring flowers in London, or have a cosy time in one of London’s best pubs. If you’ve still got some space in your week, check out London’s best bars and restaurants, or take in one of these lesser-known London attractions. RECOMMENDED: Listen and, most importantly, subscribe to Time Out’s brand new, weekly podcast ‘Love Thy Neighbourhood’ and hear famous Londoners show our editor Joe Mackertich around their favourite bits of the city.

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  • Art

It’s not every day you wake up to discover the side of your building has been plastered with a brand new Banksy artwork, but that was the reality this week (March 17) for some residents of Christie Court on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park. The wall of a building in the north London neighbourhood is now covered in dribbles and drips of green paint, and the world-famous anonymous artist has claimed it as his.  But just four days after Banksy officially claimed the work as his own, the new mural had already been defaced. A local resident discovered that the artwork had been strewn with white paint, covering some of the bright green paint.  Here is everything we know so far about this new Banksy so far.  Where is the new Banksy in London?  It’s been painted on the side of a building on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park, north London. The mural consists of streaks of green paint to create ‘leaves’ behind a bare tree which is next to the building, with a figure standing in the bottom corner, who’s holding a canister.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Banksy (@banksy) What does the mural represent?  According to James Peak, creator of BBC Radio 4 series The Banksy Story: ‘The message is clear. Nature’s struggling and it is up to us to help it grow back.’ Given it’s now spring, the tree should be sprouting leaves, and Peak thinks the artist might have cycled past and noticed how miserable it looks. The colour of the paint actually matches t

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Click for the full-sized map He may be the world’s most famous street artist, but that doesn't mean murals by Banksy stick around for that long. He’s done plenty of spraying around London over the years (including this new one), only for most of it to be painted over and lost forever. But, dotted here and there throughout the city, there are those that have survived – some in better shape than others. Here’s a list of what you should look out for on your urban art perambulations. Good condition Banksy Tree, Hornsey Road, N4 All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey, that's England for ya. But not on Hornsey Road in Finsbury Park, where the Bankster has sprayed green paint behind a tree to make it look perpetually in Spring.  Photograph: Alamy Rat, Tooley Street, SE1 Just where Tooley Street meets the underpass beneath London Bridge is this little rat – one of many that Banksy has left around London over the years. They’re kind of like his minions, wreaking havoc across the city.   Bansky 🐀 !! I kept rubbing it and people were staring at me not knowing why the hell i was stoked about a rat in a tunnel under the London bridge. #banksy #banskylondon #londongraffiti #banksyrat #londonstreetart #streetart #londonbridge # A post shared by GunMetalFlowerPetal (@blairefcknaimee) on Dec 27, 2016 at 8:06am PST   ‘You Lose’ rat, Steelyard Passage, EC4 At the eastern end of this passage running beneath Cannon Street Rail is this guy, holding a sign saying ‘You Lose’. Who’s

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  • Transport & Travel

Does anyone even remember what life was like in London before the train strikes? Union members have been walking out since all the way back in the summer of 2022, making it well over 18 months since the UK was blissfully rail-strike-free. And industrial action isn’t going away anytime soon – more strikes have just been announced throughout April and May.  Following a turbulent month in February (which saw ASLEF strikes across the country and RMT action called off at the last minute), now more tube and train strikes from ASLEF, which represents 96 percent of train drivers in Britain, have been confirmed. In slightly brighter news, we’re currently seeing respite from RMT workers striking on non-TfL services, as before Christmas the union’s members voted to pause strikes for now.  Here’s everything you need to know about planned industrial action on London’s train network.  RECOMMENDED:All you need to know about the train strikes across the UK. When are the next London train strikes? ASLEF drivers at 16 rail companies are going to walk out over three days, plus there will be a six-day overtime ban. These train strikes will be on April 5, 6 and 8. On April 8 the train strikes and tube strikes will coincide, while the other tube strike is on May 4.  Tram strikes are also heading for London at the end of March. You can read all about that here.  Which London train lines will be affected? The ASLEF strikes will affect 16 train companies, some of which operate services in and out o

  • Restaurants

March 2024: Our Top 50 Restaurants in London is an ever-evolving thing – as is our list of the Best New Restaurants in London, to which the incredible Morchella in Exmouth Market has just been added. As the first whispers of spring (aka £1 daffs in your local supermarket) make themselves heard across the city, we'd like to alert you to the most spring-like spots in the all-time Top 50, including the outdoor tables at St John Marylebone, the indoor window seats at Cafe Deco, and a sun-lit brunch upstairs at Akub. Failing all that, a big bowl of laksa at Sambal Shiok on Holloway Road should warm you up if the weather doesn't play ball.  From much-loved local favourites through to city classics and exemplary new openings, we have eaten our way through the very best that London has to offer and after much debate and degustation have compiled this definitive list of the capital’s current greatest spots. All of edible life is here; fine-dining in Fitzrovia, Kurdish cuisine in Camberwell, and the cream of Soho. We also have for your delectation a brand new Number 1 in Hackney’s sublime Cafe Cecilia, as well as new entries from Thai game-changer Chet’s, the west African tasting menu at Akoko and Indian-Irish fusion joint Shankeys. Everywhere on our list serves up incredible food you won’t forget. This is your guide to eating out in the capital. Don't forget to sign up to our free newsletter for unbeatable London restaurant news and tips. Tuck in.  Leonie Cooper is Time Out London’s

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The story goes that modernism ripped everything up and started again; and nowhere did more of that mid-century aesthetic shredding than Brazil. Helio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark, Ivan Serpa et al forged a brand new path towards minimalism, shrugging off the weight of figuration and gesturalism in favour of geometry, colour and simplicity. But Raven Row’s incredible new show is challenging that oversimplified narrative, showing how figuration, traditional aesthetics and ritual symbolism were an integral part of experimental Brazilian art from 1950-1980. It’s a nice idea, but the modernist paintings on display here are still the real draw. A deep black Lygia Clark circle, shattered squares by Judith Lauand, juddering reliefs by Lygia Pape, stacks of triangles by Ivan Serpa, tumbling blocks by Helio Oiticica; it’s so joyous, so wild despite its geometric rigidity, so full of the ecstasy of breaking with the past.  Mixed in among all that is a whole heap of flat perspective, faux-naive figuration. Heitor dos Prazeres paints women in striped dresses dancing in the street, Silvia de Leon Chalreo depicts workers toiling in a field, Madalena Santos Reinbolt weaves scenes of countryside festivities. This is all as joyous as the abstraction, but more rooted in the traditions and truth of life in rural Brazil. Full of the ecstasy of breaking with the past. So your job as you walk through the show is to try to follow the tangled threads that connect the ultra-simplistic rural figu

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March 2024: We made it, London! March is here at last, the official start of spring is just days away. Pretty soon we’ll be spending our weekends frollicking like baby lambs in parks filled with colourful spring blooms, day drinking at a rooftop bar or getting mild heat stroke at a day festival. But don’t go wishing the time away, because there’s plenty of fun stuff going on before then. March is also great month for culture, particularly for film fanatics; no sooner has Oscar season ended then several major film festivals arrive in London, including BFI Flare, Kinoteka, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and Cinema Made in Italy. Avid readers have plenty to look forward to as well, as the London Book Fair, Deptford Literature Festival, the Alternative Book Fair and the inaugural North London Book Fest all arrive in town.  Theatre-wise there are loads of big openings in March, including ‘Nye’, the National’s new play about NHS founder Aneurin Bevan starring Michael Sheen, the return of ‘For Black Boys...’ on the West End and the transfer of Broadway smash ‘MJ The Musical’. And exhibitions openings this month include ‘Enzo Mari’ at the Design Museum and Soufiane Ababri at the Barbican Gallery, while the Other Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair are both back in town too.  And that’s before you even mention the wealth of things to do around the city for Mother’s Day, St Patrick’s Day and the Easter bank holiday weekend. The fun quite simply never stops! No matter what your v

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  • Theatre
  • Musicals

I was blown away by the emotional power of this show, about three generations of incomers in Sheffield’s iconic – and infamous – brutalist housing estate, Park Hill. It’s a stunning achievement, which takes the popular but very different elements of retro pop music, agitprop and soap opera, melts them in the crucible of 50 years of social trauma and forges something potent, gorgeous and unlike any big-ticket musical I’ve seen before.  ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’ has deeply local foundations. It's based on local songwriter Richard Hawley's music. And it was made in Sheffield, at the Crucible Theatre, with meticulous care and attention from that theatre’s creative team. It’s been rightly garlanded with praise and awards already. But its West End transfer makes it clear that this singular show can speak beyond its own backyard. It is part kitchen sink musical, and part state-of-the-nation soap. It documents poverty, migration, hard graft, the painful decline of industry and working-class male pride, the double-edged hope offered by regeneration, the fragile joys of love in  ‘found families’ – not exactly ‘jazz hands’ themes, but vividly relatable and, more importantly, shared by communities. They deserve to be sung just as loudly as the more familiar stories of triumphant individuals expressing themselves, which tend to leave all this stuff behind.  What makes this an instant classic is the Crucible's outstanding production, a true ensemble achievement. It is the right way to a

  • Art

This city is absolutely rammed full of amazing art galleries and museums. Want to see a priceless Monet? A Rothko masterpiece? An installation of little crumpled bits of paper? A video piece about the evils of capitalism? You can find it all right here in this city. London’s museums are all huge and amazing, and the city’s independents are tiny and fascinating. So we’ve got your next art outing sorted with the ten best exhibitions you absolutely can’t miss.