January 2020

• ‘night, Mother POSTPONED
• Kisstory Festival is bringing B2B anthems to Crystal Palace this summer
• Sleepwalking POSTPONED
• ‘The Dumb Waiter’: Hampstead Theatre finally celebrates its 60th with this menacing Pinter classic
• Jordan Wolfson: Artists Friends Racists review
• Meet the 12 most badass bagels in London
• Things to do today in London: Sunday February 2 2020
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• Things to do today in London: Saturday February 1 2020
• Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: 13 Tongues & Dust
• This technicolour temple is raising awareness about extinction and climate change
• Ted’s Grooming Room Soho
• Tooting is getting a brand new 32-acre park
• TfL has had the best reaction to Brexit Day
• Chapel Down Gin Works
• Tea House Chinese Restaurant
• ‘Faustus: That Damned Woman’ review
• Why I love The Grimaldi Service, London’s emotional gathering of professional clowns
• ‘The Sugar Syndrome’ review
• ‘Roads to Freedom: Power, Pimping and Pride’
• London club Heaven has been granted Asset of Community Value status
• George’s Bar
• What’s actually happening at the Brexit Celebration party in Parliament Square?
• The best spring day trips from London
• ‘Persona’ review
• On McQuillan’s Hill
• This Londoner is the world’s youngest restaurateur
• Vault Festival: a survival guide
• A dotty interactive Lego playground has landed in King’s Cross
• The Grand Duchess
• Kiss My Grass
• The best gastropub in the UK is in London
• Lars Fisk
• This new exhibition revisits a forgotten subculture
• London’s 100 Club has been saved from an uncertain future
• Hoxton Hall
• A Fight Against...
• Harmless Store
• Kite Studios
• JUST ANNOUNCED: A$AP Rocky, Skepta and Meek Mill are headlining Wireless
• ‘The Song Project’ review
• A prosecco ATM is giving out free glasses of fizz to Londoners right now
• Fink's Gillespie
• This map shows London’s booziest boroughs
• Cocotte
• Sushi Fabrique
• Lost Society
• Bobo Social
• Push
• Ampéli
• Four Londoners with stressful jobs share their tips for switching off
• London’s best restaurants for dining alone
• London’s iconic Brick Lane Beigel Bake now has a delivery app
• Campaigner Amika George on why we should all be activists
• Pret is giving away free vegan croissants this Friday
• This event will give free emotional support to European Londoners affected by Brexit
• Baba G's Bhangra Burger
• Tuyo
• A London gallery is trying to change the way we think about opera
• American Pastoral review
• An essential guide to coffee counter small talk
• ‘Romeo & Juliet’, ‘Twelfth Night’ and ‘Much Ado’ are at the Globe this summer
• You can donate plants to Somerset House’s lush Earth Day installation
• Kingston Market Place
• Antony & Cleopatra
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Shoreditch is getting a boozy new bingo hall
• London cafés need to start taking tea seriously, okay?
• Rich Kids
• Valentine’s Day parties in London
• You can eat a pie baked by a Michelin-starred chef for just £8
• Boyz Nite Out:Valentines Disco
• The Spirit
• Yung Filly presents: The Yeahhhman Valentines Day Party
• Daughter
• The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Hackney is getting an edible forest with 6,500 fruit and nut trees
• Rumble Gym
• When It Breaks It Burns
• Outhaus: I Feel Love
• Friendly Fires present Club Inflorescent: Valentine's
• Valentine's Day with Egyptian Lover (Live)
• Seven ways to spot a perfect London café
• Disco Freaks - Love is in The Flare
• The secret discount for London renters that nobody told you about
• Terms and conditions: Seedlip competition 2020
• Rankin: Why every Londoner deserves a bit of wellbeing
• What the hell is 'London throat'?
• An ode to the corner shop, the underrated glue holding London together
• Vagina Cupcake Decorating
• Robert Pattinson on how he almost lost the Batman role before he'd even got it
• Gabby Best: ‘10,432 Sheep’
• Girl Code
• Johnny White Really-Really: ‘Unending Torment’
• The Honk Show
• The Good Ship Comedy Club
• Live at the Empire
• Most Googled: Why don’t Londoners talk on the tube?
• ZAPspace
• A Doll’s House
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Ben Target: How to Build a Lighthouse
• Guardian Live: Building the Hospital of the Future
• A new cinema is opening on the banks of the Thames in west London
• Yes, you really can eat mouse-shaped steamed buns for Year of the Rat
• Bloomsbury Art Deco Walking Tour
• A New York-inspired all-day diner is coming to Peckham
• Where to celebrate Dydd Santes Dwynwen in London
• We Started to Sing
• Things to do today in London: Sunday January 26 2020
• Broken Water
• Pipeline
• Gentlemen
• 15 places in London with Scottish roots
• Where to celebrate Chinese New Year in London
• Things to do today in London: Saturday January 25 2020
• ‘Aisha and Abhaya’ review
• The Cutting Edge
• Shoreditch Grind is giving away 500 free espresso martinis today
• The Petticoat Lane Foxtrot
• Uncle Vanya (online)
• You can get married for free in Fortnum & Mason’s Chapel of Love next month
• ‘Dirty Dancing’ is cha-cha-cha’ing at Secret Cinema for an extra week
• Veganuary+
• Catch ‘1917’ and ‘Queen & Slim’ for £3 as the Castle Cinema celebrates its third birthday
• The Pecs Gala: ‘Camp’
• Coqfighter
• Fleetmac Wood: Sea of Love Disco
• Corpse!
• Romesh Ranganathan presents: Hip Hop Saved My Valentines
• Nutshell
• 10 Miles Club
• Friday Late: In the Palm of Your Hand
• Time and Tide
• Le Cordon Bleu
• The Mac Factory
• Davies and Brook
• The Borough Market Kitchen
• London Sketchbook
• Merchant House
• ‘The Welkin’ review POSTPONED
• Naked City Festival
• MOB Kitchen is giving away free veggie lunches to anyone who turns up with their own lunchbox
• Hugo Weaving explains why he wasn’t in ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and won’t be appearing in the new ‘Matrix’
• Last Crumb Café
• Petit Pois Bistro
• Spring has sprung (very) early at this wisteria-filled London bar
• Moio
• The Foundry Bank
• Sylvanian Families is opening a Christmas pop-up in London this week
• Tom's Kitchen
• Tom's Kitchen
• Tom's Kitchen
• This art installation is a jukebox playing London-themed songs
• Monsieur Le Duck
• Struggling to finish Veganuary? Here’s why you should
• We tried (pretty much) all the new vegan junk food. Here’s our verdict
• This ingenious Twitter account is sharing the door codes you need to pee in London’s loos
• This piece will inspire you to keep going with Dry January
• There’s a new pool being built at London Fields Lido
• These are London’s best parks to run in, according to Run Dem Crew’s Charlie Dark
• Lanka
• Chez Elles
• O’ver St James’s
• Okan Brixton East
• Wild Honey St James
• Bun House
• ‘The Sunset Limited’ review
• The best restaurants in Hoxton
• ‘You Stupid Darkness!’ review
• Nightlife news: Old Street’s Club Aquarium has had its licence suspended
• ‘Faces in the Crowd (Los Ingrávidos)’ review
• ‘Scenes with Girls’ review
• Chinese New Year at William Morris Gallery
• The best sustainable running gear to wear when you hit London’s streets
• Chinese New Year Celebrations at Bang Bang Oriental
• You can have a candlelit dinner by the Spice Girls stairs in the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
• Six free things to do this week
• Afro Caribbean Dance Fitness Party
• Charity Drag Bingo
• Veganuary Celebration Wellbeing Rave
• Mike Skinner, Michael Kiwanuka, Kate Tempest and more are heading to Camden for the BBC 6 Music Festival
• You can now have breakfast at Tiffany’s IRL in London
• Dominic Hawgood: ‘Casting Out the Self v3.1’ review
• Harley Quinn’s Roller Disco
• London’s best pedicures
• The Contingency Plan
• In the Blood
• Mitcham VR Festival
• Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
• ‘The Canary and the Crow’ review
• This London pub has started adding a late-night fee to orders
• Field Day has gone totally dancey for 2020
• How Londoners can help fundraise for those affected by Australia’s bushfires
• The best wellbeing weekends near London
• Timberland
• ‘A Taste of Honey’ review
• Timberland Workshops
• Pret has launched 15 new vegan dishes to save your plant-based new year’s resolutions
• Does ‘Les Mis’ still matter?
• Beer & Buns
• Swap the tube for a free taxi ride today for Blue Monday
• Why Greta Gerwig is still great (despite the Oscars snub)
• London on screen: how ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ took over Canary Wharf
• The Hyde Bar
• Most Googled: where does London's rubbish go?
• Londoners reveal the places they go to make friends
• ‘Beckett Triple Bill’ review
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Macbeth
• How Not to Kill Your Houseplants
• Vinyasa Yoga at the Garden Museum
• How to deal with anxiety? Four London experts share their tips
• Things to do today in London: Sunday January 19 2020
• Hope & Anchor
• Things to do today in London: Saturday January 18 2020
• Eight double-deckers’ worth of rubbish was dumped in Alexandra Park last year
• This remote island is looking for two mates to run its coffee shop
• Alcohol-free experts Club Soda select the best London bars to save your Dry January
• Wetherspoons is opening a huge pub in ‘The most beautiful bank in London’
• Help a Mate Bushfire Crisis Fundraiser
• Hot Gin Roof
• Smashing It: Working class Artists Making it Happen
• Good news: commutes in London are shorter than those in most European capitals
• There’s a new bottomless brunch craze in London: kebabs!
• Lightopia
• The Jago Dalston
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Burns Night Remixed
• Burns Night Hosted by Chef James Cochran and Candice Carty-Williams
• Exhibition London
• There are free laughter yoga sessions happening in east London on Blue Monday
• A Leave party is officially taking place in Parliament Square on Brexit Day
• Megan's at the Sorting Office
• Patri
• Mozzasando
• The best fitness and wellbeing festivals in London this year
• ‘Touching the Void’ review
• 9 stunning World Heritage Sites in and near London
• 11 blockbuster art exhibitions we can’t wait to see in 2020
• The Nelson's
• These glowing arches have returned to light up Granary Square
• Wahlburgers
• K-pop band BTS have just launched a global art project at the Serpentine Gallery
• ‘A Star is Born’ Screening at The View from the Shard
• Pizza Pilgrims
• Yori
• The Love Shake
• Andina Notting Hill
• Andina Café
• Ceviche Old St
• ‘Rags the Musical’ review
• What actually is Burns Night and how can you celebrate it in London?
• It happened here: Lloyd Griffith’s funniest London moment
• Boris wants Big Ben to bong for Brexit: here’s why it’s currently silent
• Eight things you must never do over Easter weekend
• Oklava Bakery + Wine
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Reunion Bar at Abma Hotel Grosvenor
• Grand Imperial
• Sonia Friedman: ‘We are going to find a way to do this and nobody is going to stop us’
• Flash back to ’80s London at this exhibition celebrating queer women
• Here’s a complete list of the 2020 Oscar nominations
• I was a London taxi driver for 58 years – here’s what I learned
• F Cooke
• No money? No problem. Learn a new skill for free at these courses and classes
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• Here’s what the new Museum of London will look like. Fancy!
• Five fun free things to do this week
• Broadway Market’s iconic pie and mash shop F Cooke has closed after 120 years
• Anti Diet Riot Club is bringing a new body-positive festival to London for 2020
• Celebrate 100 years of cinema with this interactive sculpture trail in Leicester Square
• The best pictures from London’s No Trousers on the Tube day
• ‘Shackleton and his Stowaway’ review
• ‘Antigone’ review
• Why I love Ciné-Real, London’s monthly 16mm film night
• Things to do today in London: Saturday January 11 2020
• A ‘wolf moon’ is rising above London tonight – here’s how to see it
• The Time
• Pinocchio
• Things to do today in London: Sunday January 12 2020
• The Actual Reality Arcade
• Swish and Style Clothes Swap
• Sing-a-Long-a-‘Grease’
• The Glass Will Shatter
• Artificial trees are popping up in London to suck up the city’s pollution
• Madame Tussauds has already moved Harry and Meghan’s waxworks away from the royal family
• Apple Yowling
• Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing a ‘Cinderella’ musical to London this year
• Big bus news: you won’t be able to board New Routemasters in the middle or at the back any more
• Sewing for Australia Wildlife
• Sx/Crime
• Robotology
• Tortilla
• It’s No Trousers on the Tube Day this weekend: here’s how to get involved
• Top ten London gigs in January 2020
• Slipknot
• While She Sleeps
• Top ten London gigs in March 2020
• ‘Scrounger’ review
• The Blast Off! Tour
• Lovebox
• The best classes on ClassPass in London
• ‘Magic Goes Wrong’ review
• Help rebuild the 24-hour Tea Hut in Blackheath – it’s urn-ed it!
• Ikea is bringing homeware (and its beloved Swedish meatballs!) to Hammersmith next year
• London’s Low Line is set to be transformed with a green makeover
• Square Root Soda Bar
• Butcher and the Farmer
• I, Cinna (the poet)
• Mirth, Marvel and Maud
• The Bee in Me
• Mouse & De Lotz
• London Hughes
• Suzi Tros
• Lipstick CANCELLED
• Siren at The Goring
• Ko Coffee
• People Show 137
• Cops
• Hamlet; Rotten States
• Fix
• The Violence Season
• Original London Sightseeing Tour
• This map shows the most popular Amazon purchases in 2019
• The Ivy Victoria
• Mthr
• Bong Bong's Manila Kanteen
• Dominique Ansel Treehouse
• Zinester’s Coffee Morning
• Folk Of The Wood's Burns Night Ceilidh
• Sodo Pizza Hoxton
• Kinilaw & Buko
• London Model Engineering Exhibition
• Rapsa @ 100 Hoxton
• There’s a giveaway of 5,000 free ‘chicken’ nuggets at Boxpark on Sunday
• Mahalia
• Damon Albarn
• Young Vegans
• Pet Shop Boys
• Brockhampton
• Dua Lipa
• ‘The Tyler Sisters’ review
• Evans & Peel Pharmacy
• A coffee shop featuring a giant slide has just landed in Selfridges
• Balans Soho Society Seven Dials Cafe
• Zebra
• Make Some Noise
• Anima
• Cling on to Christmas at the last festive events in London
• Eurostar is selling tickets to Paris for just £29
• Optraken
• The Water Babies
• Dead Good
• Tria Fata
• 3D
• Oh my gouda! There’s a cheese-themed hotel coming to London
• The Island
• 27 London events (and new openings) to get excited about in 2020
• Museum of Neoliberalism
• Chimpanzee
• Cold Blood
• Ockham’s Razor: This Time
• 'London is Love': the exhibition celebrating south London's community spirit
• TfL has confirmed that Crossrail now won’t open until the end of 2021 😭
• This eco-friendly afternoon tea raises money for a rainforest charity
• Oi Sadiq! Has it been a good or bad decade for London?
• City envy: we want a Nutella Cafe like New York
• City envy: we want a four-day working week like Helsinki
• Burger King’s first plant-based burger launches in London this week – but vegans can’t eat it
• You can now have a floating Sunday lunch aboard this London boat
• The Hidden Spirit
• Riverford's Big Worm Dig – Big City Dig
• This Londoner is an amputee pole champion
• The Londoner who set John Boyega on the path to fame
• The Courtyard
• Guide to Camden Market
• Meet the woman behind London’s most magical toy shop
• Sacré bleu! Pret is selling a vegan croissant
• Heal's
• Overheard in London: this week’s #wordonthestreet
• ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’
• Late-night restaurants in London
• David Bowie From Space Oddity To Starman: Bowie’s Beckenham Tour
• Kyseri
• Are these the most tranquil places in London?
• Levi Roots Caribbean Smokehouse
• Great Queen Street - CLOSED
• Hix Soho
• Dindin Kitchen
• Des Lys
• Delancey & Co
• Death by Burrito
• Daphne's
• The world’s first alcohol-free beer bar is launching in London
• Cork & Bottle
• Corner Room
• Comensal
• Cocoro
• Collection
• Sadiq Khan pledges free London travel for disabled people's carers
• Cockneys Pie & Mash
• Cocoro
• Clutch
• City Social
• Chucs Mayfair
• Chop Shop
• Chiltern Firehouse
• Chicken Shop
• Chez Antoinette
• Chang's Noodle
• Canela
• Buenos Aires
• Canvas
• Canvas Chelsea
• Canvas & Cream
• Café des Amis
• Busaba Eathai
• Byron
• Bunnychow
• Matt Forde: Brexit Pursued By a Bear
• Julian Clary: Born to Mince
• Andrew Maxwell: Reality
• Larry Dean: Fudnut
• Brown Eagle Restaurant
• Bread and Bean
• Chris Ramsey
• The Guilty Feminist: Live
• Stand Up for Jeremy Hardy
• Pat Cahill: Uncle Len Needs a New Part for His Hoover
• Bite Me Pizza
• FOC It Up
• Alistair Green: ‘Volume 1’
• Strip Light Night
• Always Be Comedy
• Annie McGrath: Shepherd
• Bill's
• Bill's
• Bill's
• Steve Martin and Martin Short: The Funniest Show in Town at the Moment
• Big Apple Hot Dogs
• Bertie & Boo
• Benugo Bar & Kitchen
• Battersea Pie Station
• Barrafina
• Banana Tree
• Banana Tree
• Banana Tree
• Aux Pains de Papy
• Aux Merveilleux de Fred
• Arabica Bar & Kitchen
• Antidote Wine Bar and Restaurant
• Anima e Cuore
• Amici Miei
• Ali Baba