February 2023

• Humo
• All the best new London restaurant openings in March
• ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ and ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’ lead the way in the 2023 Olivier Awards
• Rasa
• Wandsworth Common Beer and Cider Festival
• The #BakeforUkraine line-up has been announced and it’s elite
• Gail’s bakery is planning a drive-thru in London
• Eataly Wine Festival
• Anoushka Lucas: the struggling singer-songwriter who became a theatre star by accident
• Science Fiction Film Festival
• Quo Vadis
• Easter Wreath Making Workshops
• Cafe Deco
• The Lindt Gold Bunny hunt at Hampton Court Palace
• Horniman Museum Spring Fair
• Dilara
• Father Figures Presents A Very Very Good Friday at The Glory
• Gordon Ramsay Academy
• The grim reason parakeets are disappearing from London
• R.I.P. Germain: ‘Jesus Died for Us, We Will Die for Dudus!’
• Christathon XIII
• Finnish Spring Fair
• ‘The Walworth Farce’ review
• Shankeys
• Volunteers are needed to test the new Luton DART airport shuttle
• A London street is being renamed ‘Kyiv Road’ for the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
• ‘Wonder of Friendship: The Experience’
• A knife arch has been controversially installed in a Croydon McDonald’s
• West Ham’s stadium is being covered with a ‘solar membrane’
• Ideal Home Show
• BFI Flare: seven movies to see at the UK’s biggest queer film festival
• Local Makers Market: Samples & Seconds Sale
• Black Culture Market: Summer Market
• Royal Society Lates: Fakes, Forgeries and Misinformation
• ‘Grenfell: System Failure’ review
• Café Cecilia
• ‘Trouble in Butetown’ review
• Jayda G is in full control
• The Rite of Spring
• Coppélia
• Emily Wilson: Fixed
• Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!
• A massive David Bowie archive has been donated to the V&A
• ‘The Winter’s Tale’ review
• ‘Women, Beware the Devil’ review
• There are plans to transform Earl’s Court with new homes, culture and a massive park
• The Migration Museum is getting a permanent home in the City of London
• Primark in Westfield Stratford is doubling in size
• ‘Romeo and Julie’ review
• Claridge’s has opened a swanky new café
• Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea & City Cruise
• Mother’s Day Family Kokedama Workshop
• Painting and Prosecco Mother's Day Special
• Biscuiteers Mother’s Day Icing Classes
• Dabbers Social Bingo: Mother's Day Bingo
• Mike Nelson: ‘Extinction Beckons’
• Lahore Kebab House
• Aldi is planning to open at least 60 new stores in London
• A TikTokker has created a map of new London boroughs – with hilarious results
• Profession: Documentarist
• Women, witches and wenches
• Joseph Fiennes will star as Gareth Southgate in a new National Theatre play about the England manager
• ‘Medea’ review
• United for Ukraine Trafalgar Square Vigil
• The Beams
• The Jullius Hotel
• Is it possible to find true friendship on dating apps?
• The London borough with the most green spaces has been revealed
• All London primary-school kids will get free school meals for a year
• A new ‘Stars Wars’ experience inspired by ‘The Mandalorian’ is opening in London
• London Classic Car Show
• Charterhouse by Candlelight
• Revealed: the London A&Es with the shortest wait times
• Oliver Beer: ‘Albion Waves’
• London is officially the slowest city in the world to drive in
• Holi events: celebrate the festival of colours in London
• Babur's Holi Celebration
• The Mitre, Hampton Court
• ‘Graceland’ review
• Shrek Rave
• Somerset House has unveiled a huge 30m-wide installation spiralling from its courtyard
• This bizarre, lonely Thamesside house is up for auction next month
• St. Patrick's Day by Neverland
• St Patrick's Day at Waxy O'Connor's
• St Patrick’s Day at The George
• Club De Fromage - St. Patrick's Day Party
• Dublin Castle St Pat's Craic – St Patrick's Day Party!
• Gilbert & George are opening their own museum in London next month
• Tequila Mockingbird Charing Cross
• London Games Festival
• The Boat Race
• Hokus Pokus
• St Patrick's Day: Shamrock Sessions
• Five railway arches in south London are being restored and rented out
• St Patrick’s Day at Big Penny Social
• ‘Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle’
• St Paddy’s Day Party at Skylight Peckham
• Help put a statue of legendary peace protester Brian Haw outside the Imperial War Museum
• Leadenhall Market Pancake Race
• The Grenfell Tower fire is being made into a BBC drama
• Vault Festival’s future is under threat after losing its venue
• ‘Sylvia’ review
• Tina, We Salute You
• ‘Linck & Mülhahn’ review
• Cheap West End theatre tickets and day-seats
• ‘Phaedra’ review
• Eight easy ways to see theatre for cheap in London
• COMO Metropolitan London
• The 100 best children’s books
• Is the future of London's fun phoneless?
• See pictures of a doggy drag show in Dalston
• London renters are leaving the capital at the highest rate in a decade
• LGBT History Month in London: what's on
• Queer Britain
• Sistermatic x Nite Dykez Street Party
• Out at Sea
• Everything we know about the huge asteroid that exploded outside London
• Gizzi Erskine is flipping £1 Negroni pancakes for a very good cause
• For sale: a 170-year-old pub in Covent Garden
• Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel
• London City Airport wants to add extra weekend flights
• ‘You’ season 4 filming locations: how Netflix’s hit serial-killer show took over London
• ‘I couldn’t believe it had been a law’: ‘Blue Jean’ director Georgia Oakley on Section 28
• We went for a pint with Catherine Cohen
• Why is everyone in London obsessed with Steely Dan right now?
• First look: The new turquoise DLR trains are here
• JMW Turner’s grade II-listed house in Chelsea is for sale
• Daryl McCormack: ‘Five years ago I was waiting tables, now I’m at the BAFTAs’
• Risen Festival
• Exclusive: Curzon Mayfair’s future in jeopardy amidst massive development plans
• The UK’s best cocktail bar is in Bethnal Green
• A Drake waxwork has been unveiled at Madame Tussaud’s
• ‘Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance’
• Tavern On The Hill
• WAVE
• Bouchon Racine
• Jeff Goldblum will play a one-off jazz gig in London
• ‘Pod homes’ for 33 homeless young people are opening in south London
• The Social
• ‘Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70’
• Brick Dinos
• A huge new wild-swimming spot is coming to east London
• A rainbow-inspired food market is coming to Piccadilly
• London tube and bus fares will go up by 6% from March
• Holy moly! There’s a £2.85 million converted chapel for sale in Camberwell
• The Northern line could be extended to Clapham Junction
• 5 shows to see at Vault Festival in February
• Hyegyeong Choi: ‘Food Coma’
• You can try a fish ’n’ chip pizza for two weeks ONLY
• Gretchen Bender
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Quality Wines
• In PurSUEt
• Liv Ello: Swarm
• An intergalactic new ‘Star Wars’ exhibition is opening in London
• I Fucked You In My Spaceship
• London Bookshop Crawl
• Waterloo Station is getting gender-neutral toilets this year
• Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name
• Wrestival
• London is getting these futuristic electric ‘tram buses’
• 11 Cadogan Gardens
• Jon Rafman: ‘Minor Daemon’
• All the best new London restaurant openings in February
• ‘Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline’
• The Maine
• ‘Titus Andronicus’ review
• Some of London’s famous red phone boxes might be turned into vending machines
• 2:22 – A Ghost Story
• ‘People Make Television’
• Two adorable baby porcupines have been born at London Zoo
• ‘Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons’ review