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Bust out the party poppers: Time Out is turning 50! And to celebrate we’re throwing a massive party.
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Time Out is turning 50 – and to mark our half-century we’re throwing a huge birthday bash. Join us in Granary Square for this birthday bonanza celebrating the very best of London, across food, drink, performance, comedy and music.
Get the steins in at this Oktoberfest extravaganza taking over the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where you’ll find weissbier flowing in a beer tent big enough to accommodate 3,000 people.
Tuck into grub of the St John school of pared-back Britishness at this compact, attractive boozer in a backstreet near Mansion House. In a sea of macho City joints and faceless, suit-filled pubs, this is a brilliant little bolthole.
You’ll find nearly 40 short and feature films about inspirational female role models from the worlds of sport and the arts at this three-day flick fest.
Screen on the Green in Islington is one of the country’s oldest cinemas. Head there on Wednesday to see charming Gallic gem ‘Amélie’ with a free cocktail from mixology mecca 69 Colebrooke Row.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan collects ‘earwitness’ testimony: memories of the sounds of terrible acts. The mundane, silent objects that make up this show become horrifyingly sinister then, in one room, sound becomes real. This is ear-bleedingly shocking stuff.
Grab this chance to see eighteenth-century baroque ceiling artwork up close. It’s a once-in-a-century opportunity.
London’s brand new Science Gallery opens its doors with a show looking at addiction and recovery. The curators aren’t just talking about the hard stuff – caffeine and technology are under the microscope too.
Martial arts, traditional crafts, live music and good clean fun all feature at this annual celebration of Japanese culture. Go and give origami, calligraphy and manga-making a whirl.
Try and bag yourself a ticket to this sinister monologue about a theatre critic. Brendan Coyle is superb as the dead-on-the-inside Dublin critic and site-specific maestro Simon Evans’s production is profoundly creepy.
Watch Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce as a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. The mighty Close at the peak of her powers.
Catch this adaptation of Édouard Louis’s novel about growing up gay in rural France. It’s heartbreaking and inventive.
Music and mental health meet in Stoke Newington this week at a pop-up curated by ace DJ Gilles Peterson. Drop in to browse the record and bookshop raising money for mental health charity Safaplace. Or book tickets for interviews with Goldie, James Lavelle, The Connor Brothers and more, plus performances from the likes of Jordan Rakei and Yazmin Lacey.
Hung in the rooms of this show of work from the last two decades of Heidi Bucher’s life are latex casts of rooms, spaces and people. Ghostly, haunting and pretty damn gorgeous art.
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Poke around Buckingham Palace while the royal family are on their hols.
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Set in a former bullion truck depot in Shoreditch, Dinerama is a food and drink market from Street Feast, London’s leading street food market company.
The team behind 'The Play That Goes Wrong' hit the funnybone again
This staggeringly enjoyable musical about a teen drag queen transfers triumphantly to London
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's naughty but extremely lovable comedy
The biggest theatre hit of modern times bar none is Jack Thorne and JK Rowling's epic two-part eighth adventure for erstwhile boy wizard Harry Potter
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The coastal capital has always been one of Europe’s most beautiful walled cities, full of interesting winding streets and Baroque mansions, yet Mdina, further north, is even more fairytale, with its high bastions and moat.
The United Kingdom – made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - is a varied, fascinating country. You’ll find different dialects, celtic languages and unique communities, traditions, myths and legends.
Scotland is a country famed for its natural beauty – its rolling glens and hills, its windswept western isles and pristine lochs – and while we’re not arguing with any of that, it’s also true that there’s loads more going on than pretty flora and fauna.
At first glance Reading isn’t a cultural icon; if you spent your teenage years in its vicinity you might still consider the Oracle shopping centre to be the Home Counties equivalent of The Dubai Mall.
Manchester might be well-established as a haven of nightlife, from its rich musical heritage to its modern clubbing meccas. But if you want to head out for an altogether more civilised excursion, then it’s also got heaps of places, from the cute to the cash-splashing, to treat yourself to the ultimate in decadent eating: high tea.
If the city of Oxford is known for anything, it’s providing an education that’s second to none. But you don’t need three years and a student loan to leave Oxford feeling like you’ve learned a thing or two.
If you're travelling from further afield, Newcastle might not be top of your list as a city to visit. But those in the know are already familiar with the idea of Newcastle as one of Britain's best cities.
From delicious dive bars and brilliant boozers to chic cocktail bars with pricey drops and panoramic views, this city has it all when it comes to getting a bit squiffy.
Then Liverpool's got more picture perfect afternoon tea venues than you can shake a mop-top haircut at. So if you love them (yeah, yeah, yeah), then here's 11 spots guaranteed to send you all in a spin.
