Things to do
What we're reading
- Just how bad are Southern rail services?
- Why the Piccadilly line is in trouble.
- Plans to extend the Metropolitan line to Watford Junction seem to have been cancelled.
- Sadiq is putting residents first in estate regenerations
ACROBATIC ARTS: As a part of Devonshire Square's Art for Love Christmas Festival, two aerial artists are performing a breathtaking acrobatic art show inside a giant winter globe. Free, register in advance, from 12.30pm
WASTE LAND CITY: Explore TS Eliot's The Waste Land as you walk through the city, seeking out the places that inspired the poet. £12/£9, book ahead, 2pm-4pm
KEVIN!: Watch Macaulay Culkin defend his home from Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern after his family accidentally abandon him at Christmas. Head to Prince Charles Cinema for your annual fix of Home Alone. £8/£4 members, book ahead, from 4.10pm
PENNY LECTURES: London is full of little curiosities and unknown stories. Join author Henry Eliot for a discussion about his amazing book Curiocity: In Pursuit of London... for just a penny! Free, just turn up, from 5.30pm
STARGAZING: Get stargazing with Print the Moon: Stargazing and Lunar Photography. Astronomer Paul Hill guides you on a tour of the night sky. You can take away your very own unique photograph of the moon. £20, book ahead, 6.30pm-10.30pm
CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT: Jump into Victorian London at the Charles Dickens Museum with Christmas By Candlelight. Explore Dickens's home as he would have known it, in flickering candlelight and 'ruddy, homely... glow'. £20, book ahead, from 6.40pm
WEST END UP CLOSE: Head to the Chapel of St Barnabas for West End Up Close... at Christmas. Enjoy intimate acoustic sets from favourite musicals, performed by West End stars with a festive twist. £30, book ahead, 7pm-9pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES: Go on an adventure with Holmes and Watson at the Tower Theatre Company's production of Sherlock Holmes. Follow the deer stalker-ed one as he tries to escape the rut he's, all the while knowing that Moriarty is out there waiting for him... £14/£12, book ahead, from 7.30pm
CHRISTMAS MARKET: Get that festive feeling with the Paternoster Square Christmas Market. Enjoy mulled wine, delicious food and boutique shopping. Free, just turn up, until 15 December
BRICK FLICKS: Enjoy large-scale images of LEGO recreations of your favourite scenes and films on Monday. Head over to the artdepot's Apthorp Gallery for Brick Flicks, an exhibition bringing film's most iconic moments to life in LEGO, by Warren Elsmore. Free, just turn up, until 31 December
Good cause for the day
GRIMM BEGINNINGS: Learn the dark past behind fairy tales (now usually sanitised), in the atmospheric surroundings of The Brunel Tunnel. The event supports the fantastic work of Great Ormond Street Hospital. £20, book in advance, 7.30pm
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE: Flashing test cards, stop motion, 3D and spinning spotlights. There is plenty of visual stimulus here... unfortunately it doesn’t have the substance to back it up. Lucy Raven: Edge of Tomorrow at Serpentine Gallery. Until 12 February, free. ★★☆☆☆
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