Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up
London news
- New London TV station London Live launched this week
- Where to find the Delay Compensation form after TfL's website redesign
- TfL opens a pedestrian safety consultation
- New towers approved for Deptford and City Road
- Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park reopened this weekend
- A cyclist died on Thursday after a collision with an HGV at Ludgate Circus
Must-read articles
- We've picked out 10 of London's best Italian restaurants. Gnam! And the best smokehouse cooking. Smokin'
- Whore's Nest and Naked Boy Court: London's strangest back passages
- Some pictures of last weekend's WWF Earth Hour
- A round-up of London's best April Fool's Jokes
- Another time-lapse video, this time from the top of one of Barbican's towers
- Discover the history of London's forgotten workhouses
- Some facts about food poverty in the capital
- We look at the rise of 'stranger shaming' on London's public transport
- Bizarre London history: the Edwardian Londoner with a girlfriend on Mars
- Affordable fizz? We approve. Here's where to find it in London
Top reviews
- La Meute at the Roundhouse presents the Russian Swing (that's a type of circus that propels performers into the air at high speed)
- Behold the bunny boiler: Fatal Attraction at Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Diverse photographs of the American West, by Lucas Foglia
- Bank of England Museum shares curiosities from its vaults
- Veggie review of BiBimBap on Charlotte Street
- Playful scaffolds by Phyllida Barlow at Tate Britain
- New skyscraper exhibition looks at London's changing skyline
- Kingston 14 at Theatre Royal Stratford East is a "hard-boiled Caribbean cop opera"
Things to do
- Beer festivals and foodie pop-ups in London this month
- Let's All Be Free film festival starts tomorrow, celebrating the theme of freedom
- Speakers, workshops and debates at London Electronic Music Festival next weekend
- Try out a new instrument at Learn To Play Day, also next weekend
- Exhibitors, talks and workshops at April's Handmade Bicycle Show
- Comedy producers Invisible Dot begin a West End tenancy later this month
- Tickets are on sale for Southbank Centre's annual Meltdown music festival
- Keep an eye out for booking opening to this year's BluesFest, featuring Elvis Costello, Van Morrison and Sheryl Crow
- Plenty of ideas for things to do in London during the Easter holidays