June 2020

• Cineworld and Picturehouse postpone their reopening date
• UK cinemas can reopen from July 4
• 10 ways cinemas will be different when they reopen in July
• The Barbican is back – and its conservatory is now open all week
• London authors Candice Carty-Williams and Bernadine Evaristo are first Black writers to win top prizes at the British Book Awards
• Two-Michelin-starred restaurant The Greenhouse won’t be reopening
• A London barge might be converted into a floating spa, complete with an open-air swimming pool
• When are London’s biggest art galleries reopening?
• A Judge Dredd escape room is coming to London in 2021
• London’s best virtual events to help you celebrate Pride Month from home
• Alexandra Palace is opening a massive beer garden for the summer
• There’s a drive-in musical coming to London this summer
• Drive-in cinemas in London: where to join the socially distanced cinema trend
• Sir Ian McKellen will play Hamlet in a new age-blind production – and rehearsals begin next week
• Virtual LGBTQ+ spaces will be just as important when lockdown’s over
• Support the first ever Black Pound Day this weekend
• Lockdown Legend: the volunteer who started a scheme to donate iPads to care homes
• Telegraph Hill Upper Park should be temporarily closed, say Lewisham councillors
• Here’s what to do if things are getting tense with your housemates as we come out of lockdown
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: James Cochran’s watermelon cooler
• Salvador and Amanda Covent Garden
• Catch Gwendoline Christie in National Theatre Live’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ tonight for free
• Fortnum & Mason is doing BOGOF on its fancy afternoon tea from July 4
• Ealing Park Tavern
• Tate is part of a global stream of Arthur Jafa’s ‘Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death’
• Sadiq Khan set to move Mayor’s Office out of City Hall to cut costs
• Veterans of London’s Gay Liberation Front will lead a Pride protest parade this weekend
• When can we go on holiday again? The UK’s quarantine rule might be lifted by July
• Cult London horror festival FrightFest is going online this August
• Some of the best restaurants reopening in London where you can now book a table
• MPs are pushing for a four-day working week
• Baking brownies with Jessie Ware cured my lockdown blues
• Meat, Reviewed: A lifelong veggie gets messy with bangers and mash
• Terms and conditions: PayPal #keepthechange
• What will gyms look like when they reopen in London?
• A peaceful Black Trans Lives Matter protest is taking place this weekend
• We asked an expert about London’s connections to slavery beyond its statues
• There’s a campaign to erect a statue in honour of London’s first Black mayor
• London’s pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, museums, galleries and cinemas can reopen from July 4
• Holidays in England are officially allowed from July 4
• These virtual events are taking place to mark Windrush Day
• How LGBTQ+ Londoners are keeping the community together in lockdown
• Women of the World is hosting a free 24-hour festival online – with Angela Davis just added as a speaker
• Rivington Greenwich
• The V&A is putting on a virtual Glastonbury exhibition to mark the festival’s fiftieth year
• Jake and Dinos Chapman, Julian Opie and Boy George are auctioning their art on a postcard
• 450 classic movies will be returning to UK cinemas in July
• London’s congestion charge has risen to £15 a day
• Where to see wildlife in London year-round
• Indian Accent
• Two-metre rule looks set to be relaxed ahead of London pubs reopening
• Hackney is getting two new sculptures to honour the Windrush Generation
• Two new drive-in cinemas are coming to London
• London’s independent cinemas unlikely to reopen in July
• Travellers entering the UK now have to self-isolate for 14 days – unless they’re from Ireland
• Revealed: the UK’s most lusted-after Airbnbs this summer
• An amazing mural to Black Lives Matter has appeared in Greenwich
• Rooftop cinema is returning to London in July
• There’s a crowdfunder to create a London monument from the Empire Windrush’s anchor
• Festival of Making
• Junction 2 is putting on a 3D, three-stage virtual music festival
• An Indian Summer
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Thomasina Miers’s crushed summer peas
• Donate to these anti-racism charities and organisations doing amazing work in London
• Benji B is streaming a Deviation fundraiser for Black Lives Matter tonight
• Watch the National Theatre’s ‘Small Island’ tonight for free
• Shoryu has launched a ramen at home kit
• Xi’an Impression has revealed the recipe for its legendary biang biang noodles
• This is how Coal Rooms makes its giant yorkshire puddings
• Here’s a list of West End streets that might be pedestrianised – making way for alfresco dining this summer
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Arbinder Dugal’s tandoori shakarkandi
• Top London chefs share their Three-Ingredient Recipes
• Isolation SOS: we put your lockdown problems to the experts
• Vote now in the Time In Awards
• Secret Cinema is opening a drive-in cinema at Goodwood race track this summer
• Dishoom has launched a DIY kit for its famous bacon naan roll
• ‘Hamilton’, ‘Les Mis’, ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ will not return to the West End until 2021
• East London’s Dusty Knuckle bakery has launched a sourdough delivery van
• The London cat that inspired ‘A Street Cat Named Bob’ has passed away
• A London café is putting on a series of socially distanced classical concerts
• Feeling nervous about going back to real life? A life coach gives his tips
• Somebody walked the whole of the Monopoly board in lockdown – and it looked pretty deserted
• Meat, Reviewed: It’s Big Mac week for our resident ex-veggie
• Next year’s Baftas are postponed by two months
• Picturehouse and Cineworld cinemas will be reopening on July 10
• This campaign wants you to bring your own glass for takeaway pints
• Face mask vending machines are popping up all over London
• Buckle up! A swanky new drive-in cinema is coming to London
• A drive-in theatre for stand-up comedy is coming to London
• Depop listings and postal donations: how charity shops have changed during lockdown
• London is getting a heatwave next week with temperatures up to 28C
• The Tube Tube: the £95 social-distancing invention nobody asked for
• There’s a new drive-in cinema coming to the UK this summer
• London rooftop bar Skylight will reopen next month
• The Caketail Club
• The Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race presents: The Goat Rave
• London’s Selfridges reopens today with one customer per 20 square metres of floorspace
• Art Night is launching an experimental online version of the London festival
• This new light installation is being powered by Londoners’ screams of frustration
• This ancient windmill near London is available to rent for a summer escape
• Oxford Street reopens with new safety plans in place
• The Globe is streaming ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ for free for the next fortnight
• 9 reusable masks created by London makers
• Covent Garden’s shops and market are open again after lockdown
• Face coverings are now compulsory on public transport in London
• This street art initiative wants to celebrate diversity in the NHS
• How a group of unionised London strippers launched an industry-transforming virtual strip club
• There’s a virtual Oxford v Cambridge boat race happening this weekend
• This cocktail van is delivering Espresso Martinis on tap around London
• View from the Frontline: the firefighter delivering PPE
• The Black Lives Matter protest in Hyde Park has been called off – here’s how you can still show your support
• In need of a comforting drink? Here’s the recipe for Dishoom’s Masala Chai
• Here’s a list of the London tube stations reopening next week (and those still closed)
• How to help (and get help) in London during lockdown
• Nearly 2,000 Santander Cycles and 14 docking stations are being added around London
• National Theatre Live’s free-to-stream plays will come to an end in July
• Help stop this 150-year-old tree in Hackney from getting the chop
• Nando’s has launched a recipe kit so you can peri-peri at home
• Campaign reignited for London slavery memorial in Hyde Park
• Michelin-starred pub The Harwood Arms is now delivering its epic Sunday roasts
• Watch Mark Gatiss in National Theatre Live’s ‘The Madness of George III’ for free this week
• These virtual events are taking place to mark the third anniversary of Grenfell
• There are calls to reopen public toilets as London’s parks get ‘smelly with excrement’
• Remains of a playhouse predating the Globe may have been found in Whitechapel
• Wild Food Café (Islington)
• Zoos and outdoor attractions set to reopen on Monday June 15
• Tom Kerridge is launching a foodie take on the drive-in cinema trend in London
• London’s small art galleries are reopening next week
• Tracey Emin’s art created in lockdown in London is being displayed online
• Michelin-starred restaurant The Ledbury announces it won’t reopen
• A celebrity fashion stylist’s guide to doing a lockdown wardrobe clear-out
• East London statue of slave trader Robert Milligan taken down
• Strawberry Hill House Flower Festival
• The best virtual quizzes to get you through lockdown
• Thames Clippers will be running again from June 15
• London has climbed up the list of the world’s most expensive cities to live in
• White Cube is reopening its two London art galleries on June 16
• Michelin-starred restaurant The Ledbury has launched a fancy at-home experience
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Will Bowlby’s boulanger potatoes
• Sadiq Khan orders review of London’s landmarks including slave trader statues
• The one thing I’ve worn the most in lockdown
• Meat, Reviewed: A lifelong veggie butchers a leg of lamb
• Plans revealed for London’s new theme park, the UK’s answer to Disneyland
• White Cube Mason’s Yard
• Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is going virtual this year with an epic line-up
• TfL is giving out free face masks on the tube today
• London’s Great Get Together street party will be ‘on air’ this year
• Black Cultural Archives is asking Londoners to share photos and videos from the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
• This London bar might use mannequins to enforce social distancing when it reopens
• Beer gardens and restaurant terraces could reopen on June 22
• Michaela Coel’s ‘I May Destroy You’ will make you laugh, cry and think about consent
• Sheep and Wool Week
• Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair
• There are protests taking place in London this weekend over the death of George Floyd
• The best restaurants in west London now doing home delivery
• Londoners are sharing pictures of the city’s empty streets in lockdown
• Abbey Road Studios has reopened
• Young’s Pubs in London won’t reopen under two-metre rule
• Petersham Nurseries has launched a posh picnic service for park-goers
• Matt Smith and Claire Foy are doing socially distanced live stagings of ‘Lungs’ at the Old Vic
• The Old Vic is streaming ‘A Monster Calls’ tonight for free
• Three-Ingredient Recipe: Bin Li’s egg-yolk-and-garlic noodles
• This is how you start a vegetable patch on your balcony
• Array 360 Music Festival
• Ting
• Another drive-in cinema is pulling into London this summer
• The Royal Opera House is bringing back live performances
• Maltby Street Market is back this weekend – but it won’t be selling street food
• The best restaurants in south London now doing home delivery
• The world’s first ‘socially distanced immersive music venue’ is coming to London
• Tom Hiddleston stars in the National Theatre’s free live stream of ‘Coriolanus’ this week
• The best restaurants in north London now doing home delivery
• The best restaurants in east London now doing home delivery
• ‘The Great Gatsby’ plans its West End return as early as October
• Mei Mei has revealed the recipe for its deep-fried chicken sando
• Eggslut is opening a new London branch next month
• What will shops look like when they reopen?
• Dishoom is delivering in London... finally!
• Four simple games that will keep your unruly kids entertained for at least 20 minutes
• Mirror Room
• Bi-Fi Festival
• The top ten London musicals on and off the West End
• The best London theatre shows of 2019
• The Whisky Exchange Great Portland Street
• Brick Lane Market and Columbia Road Flower Market will remain closed this weekend
• Kew Gardens has reopened to the public
• There’s a virtual Pride festival happening this weekend
• Camden Market is reopening from today
• Pizza Express
• The Globe is streaming ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ tonight for free
• McDonald’s is reopening nearly 1,000 of its UK restaurants this week