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Best Of Londonist: Fares, Poppies And A Periodic Table Of Film

Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.

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Top reviews

  • Gold in art and Middle Eastern photographs: underwhelming pictures but striking artefacts at Queen's Gallery ★★★☆☆
  • Curiosities from the Hanbury Collection is fun, cheeky and offers strange paraphernalia galore ★★★★☆
  • Semi-sung, semi-spoken, semi-comic performances at Soho Theatre's Symphony ★★★☆☆
  • Setting aside controversy of his work, Allen Jones's new exhibition still misses the mark ★★☆☆☆
  • Plum + Spilt Milk's vegetarian offerings are limited, but full of earthy, autumnal goodness ★★★★☆
  • English National Opera's latest edition of La bohème does the much-staged opera justice ★★★★☆
  • More lols than lulls: La Soiree is one heck of a trip ★★★★★
  • Cop drama Wildefire would be more at home on the small screen; this isn't why we go to the theatre ★★☆☆☆
  • Have a heart-warming night out with White Christmas ★★★★☆
  • Explore high Arctic adventure at the British Library ★★★★☆
  • The Taylor Wessing prize at the National Portrait Gallery features some stunning images ★★★★☆
  • Over-complicated staging mars Streaming, what should be a great play about sex workers ★★★☆☆

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