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We recently discovered the underground delights of Somerset House. We’re gladly recommending River Sounding, a new sound installation by artist Bill Fontana that covers part of the regular tour, adding an extra aural dimension to murky depths below the building. Fontana collected audio and video …

Curated by Glue, Scratch Interact will be taking over the whole of Soho Theatre on the evening of Monday 12 April filling all the spaces in the building with interactive artists and theatre-makers trying out new work for the first time. The confirmed programme includes …

Bleak, harrowing, traumatising, devastating. Not the usual things itemised as highlights of a theatre production, but for Cheekish Productions’ Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat and Eschara at Union Theatre, these are the downbeat elements that make this an extraordinary evening. Three-part Eschara by Philip …

… except where the postcode begins with E. Thames Water confirmed by website and recorded phone message that a large water main had burst within the Olympic Park, leaving homes and businesses in the area without water. The last recorded message on the Thames Water …

TV doyenne Barbara Windsor and current fictional landlady of the Queen Vic in ‘London’ soap opera Eastenders is apparently calling on the programme’s bosses to create a West End EastEnders musical based on the long-running drama. Considering the last known attempt at making music around …

Comedienne and TV busybody Ruby Wax has been hired by the Home Office to coach senior staff in leadership and communications, launching some gleeful outrage from the usual suspects. Even with our sceptical goggles on, we can see that there will always be expensive professional …

Londonist and some conventional magazines Woe, nobody wants to buy magazines any more! Alas, the internet is the only medium anyone is interested in! Wrong, cry the Blood, Sweat and Fears team as they present their magazine as a real life event in central London …

Photo by W P Wiles There’s a touch of Spring in the air and even in London, it’s hard to ignore the longer days and touches of green emerging around the place. So embrace it and get across to east London to engage the green …

Wanstead locals and animal lovers are dismayed by a mystery blight on Victoria Lake wildlife where over 70 birds have suddenly died in recent days. The birds were found with no discernible cause of death; the number and suddenness has prompted tests on the carcasses …

Photo by Francis Loney Like secretly favouring one child over your others, it’s unfair to single out one play in a trilogy as the most enjoyable, uplifting and clearly structured. But we’re going to do that about The Festival, the third, most recent part of …