Your Sunday morning best-of-Londonist weekly round-up.
London news
- Eight London councils are having action taken against them over freesheets
- RMT called a 48 hour tube strike this week. And then recalled it
- Enter the ballot to see all four of the Magna Carta manuscripts together next year
- 20mph speed limit is Islington now being enforced with fixed penalty notices
- The lions of London Zoo are getting a new home
- Protesters filled north London streets in support of Kurds fighting IS
- Swish new tube designs unveiled, although we're not getting them until mid 2020s
- London tops the list at the World's 50 Best Bars awards
- Tottenham residents don't like the council's plans to regenerate the area
Must-read articles
- More of a must-see than a must-read: the floating building in Covent Garden
- The 20 biggest Londonist stories ever (we're getting nostalgic because we're turning 10 next week!)
- A round-up of our round-ups, helping you make the most of London
- We asked London Film Festival’s director for her top picks this season
- Remnants of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s career can be found all around London
- Charge your phone at London's first Solarbox
- A look back at the first bombs to hit central London
- London's curious and infamous neighbours
- Your assistance is required to photograph every street in London
- London's buses (or at least one particular vehicle) are trialling new technology to tell you if there are seats available upstairs. Handy
- Listen to our podcast, looking back at a decade of Londonist (have we mentioned we're turning 10?)
Best pubs in London
We’re building a new website of the best pubs in London (mostly as voted for by Londonist readers). We still have a few areas to explore but we’re asking readers to take a look through what we have so far, and let us know what we’ve missed and where we need to visit next.
Top reviews
- The Girl of the Golden West at London Coliseum is worth its weight
- Harrowing Science Museum exhibit shows poor housing in the UK between 1968 and 1972
- Not for the wimpish: the history of the Gothic horror genre laid out at British Library
- Romanian deli Ileana Artisan Food And Butcher is the last thing we expected to find in the grey dusty area around Hendon Central
- Unseen London book has photos from the man who's conquered bank vaults, abandoned theatres and ghost stations
- A rare chance to glimpse the Russian perspective of World War One at GRAD in Fitzrovia
- Chef Marcus Wareing shows a little bit of his fun side (not too much, mind) in new casual dining restaurant Tredwell's
- Influences from Lichtenstein and Warhol are clear in the Sigmar Polke retrospective at Tate Modern
- Liam Williams's comedy show is sort of about Capitalism, but not as we know it
- Tracey Emin is back with a new exhibition, but it's all a bit samey
- We ate the veggie options at Notting Hill restaurant The Shed
Things to do
- Eat your way round the capital at the London Restaurant Festival
- If you're quick, you might just get tickets to hear ‘place-hacker’ Dr Bradley Garrett speak at Southbank Centre this afternoon. The guy sneaks into tunnels and onto the rooftops of buildings, for goodness' sake — HE'S OUR HERO
- Maya Angelou and Nelson Mandela are top of the bill at Black History Month
- ZSL London Zoo's photography exhibition has some great photos, including a chameleon photographed midway through catching his lunch
- Theres's a whole day dedicated to Ryan Gosling at London Fields Free Film Festival. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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Overground, Underground, geekery for free at King's College London arts and humanities festival - Dulwich and Kilburn are both premiering brand spanking new literature festivals at the end of the month
- With a game called Electric Poo, who wouldn't want to be at this family-friendly monster-themed event, part of The Big Draw?
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Londonist Has Joined Instagram
Love a #hashtag? So do we, which is why we've joined Instagram (stylishly late to the party, we know). Come join us — we're at @londonist_com, and we'll be sharing our snaps of the streets of London. Tag us if you've got a corker of a pic that you want us to share. Be gentle with us though — we're still new to this!
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