Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.
London news
- The new Crystal Palace has been denied Lottery funding
- The inner London average rent is £1,500 per month (but there's a smidgen of good news too)
- London did well in the UK’s Top 50 Gastropubs 2014 awards
- Updates on the three men charged with taking food from a skip
- Would you use a part-time travelcard?
- Bedford to Brighton Thameslink service to be reduced by 50% from December
- What's happening with The Pinnacle/Helter Skelter skyscraper?
Must-read articles
- London's ghost stations, mapped (again). Or the coffee tube map, if you'd prefer somewhere you can actually visit
- Spot the difference: photos of old and modern London side by side
- Here's a short but ship-shape video about Wapping's pirate history
- Stop for a tipple in one of these lovely but lesser-known hotel bars or one of the 10 best craft beer pubs in London
- Indian, Italian, Polish, Jamaican: the first in a mini-series on London's most authentic restaurants
- London's street nipples exposed. Snigger.
- We have some (entirely serious and creditable) suggestions on how to improve London's train network
Top reviews
- Artists explore the duplicity of the mirror image at Double Blind
- Fear and Loathing ... in the Waterloo Vaults
- New restaurant review: Trip Kitchen in Haggerston (we loved it)
- Downton Abbey meets X Factor at impressions show The Only Way is Downton
- Turner Prize winner Martin Creed asks what is art? at Hayward Gallery
- Impressive ensemble acting in The Robbers at New Diorama
Things to do
- It's the Super Bowl today. Here's where to watch it
- Party at a modern frost fair tomorrow (it has been 200 years since the last one)
- Phlegm has arrived in Shoreditch
- Valentine's Day ideas on London's South Bank for lovers and cynics
- Book ahead for London archaeology tours
- Save your pennies with ideas from our Free London map
- Londonist is celebrating year of the bus. Share your favourite bus spots then join us on the walk in April
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