Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up
London news
- The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) begins new campaign for an east London bridge
- Crossrail has been granted a line extension to Reading
- Lack of housing could affect London's economy by billions
Must-read articles
- Earlier this week we introduced Mike Turnbull, who has taken a snap of every tube station's roundel. We then heard from others who have undertaken similar London Underground projects. And then we heard from even more. Good work, team
- Dine out for less by bringing your own booze, at these top BYO restaurants
- London's best bars for drinking Tequila and Mezcal
- Could London become the capital of the video game industry?
- Usually stick north of the river? Here's a beginner's guide to south London's cultural gems
- Seven places you can learn music programming in London
- We broke a London taboo and visited Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Here's what we thought
- All aboard for our video of a day in the life of a Thames Clipper crew and our podcast with the CEO
- Lunching in London, it can be a strange affair
Top reviews
- Site-specific and large-scale installations by Miroslaw Balka on show in two London locations
- Angela Lansbury is back (and still bewitching) on stage with Blithe Spirit
- Best new food shops: Ergon Deli on Picton Place
- London’s oldest music hall, Wilton's, is the setting for new puppet-show Father Nandru & The Wolves
- Vegetarian restaurant Trishna serves vibrant yet traditional Indian fare
- "When a child loves you... then you become Real" - The Velveteen Rabbit at Unicorn Theatre
- We got shivers at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse's first opera, L'Ormindo
- Floating schools and Lego calendars: inventive Designs of the Year at the Design Museum
- Lovely miniature sculptures on display at Curious Duke
Things to do
- Modern contemporary circus has arrived in Camden, with CircusFest at the Roundhouse
- A week of theatre, poetry and film as young Londoners take control of Tricycle Takeover
- Fan of the flat white? Then London Coffee Festival should be on your caffeine calendar next weekend
- This April, mark the centenary of the start of World War I with Cityread London
- Make the most of spring with this all-day walk following the Thames from Erith to Greenwich
- What happens when you get 32 Londoners, talking about 32 other Londoners, in each of the London Eye's 32 capsules? A blimmin' good event, that's what
- Films influenced by the post-punk aesthetic, at the BFI in April
- Markets and shopping and art events around the capital next month
- Bishopsgate Institute explores the nature of protest in their Troublemakers season in May
- Book ahead: an overnight Macbeth performance staged in an east London tower block
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