Best Of Londonist: 3 April 2022

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Best Of Londonist: 3 April 2022

Your weekly Londonist roundup.

What Will You Call The Elizabeth Line?

The Lizzie? The Betty? The Purp?

Photo: Matt Brown

Those Futuristic Piccadilly Line Tube Trains: An Update

New Tube for London mock-ups unveiled.

A mock up frontage of the new tube train
Image: TfL

Eel Pie Island Museum: Visit Twickenham's Tiny Temple To Rock And Roll

You can get some satisfaction.

Exterior of the Eel Pie Island Museum. The upper floor is painted white and is quite shabby, the lower floor has windows filled in with promotional images. A black car and white van are parked outside

Last Chance To Catch This Art Spectacular, Hailed "The Show Of The Season"

Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty at Dulwich Picture Gallery. (sponsor)

Madame Butterfly room. Image: Alick Cotterill

Meet East London Phoenix: The Game-Changing Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team

"The things you regret are the things you don't do"

Amy Conroy, pro athlete, practices with her coach for a wheelchair basketball game.
Image: Paige Kahn

Could TikTok Be The Unlikely Saviour Of London's Cable Car?

Johnson vanity project looks to young influencers.

a cable car whizzes past the o2  - lit up at night
Image: TfL

Remember These Classic Bits Of London Street Art, Now Long Gone?

Seven long-vanished classics.

Usain Bolt's painted head at the centre of a spectrum of colour, all painted onto an end wall

Big Ben's Scaffolding Has Been Removed From HP Sauce Bottles

Or Elizabeth Tower, if you insist.

two bottle of the cause - scaffolding and no scaffolding
Image: HP Sauce

Dine Beneath Chandeliers At This Ravishing Regency Afternoon Tea

Exquisite cakes — and an ice cream trolley too! (sponsor)

London Wildlife Spotting In April: 7 Natural Wonders That Are Easy To Find

From warblers to primroses.

Yellow primroses with green leaves
Image by the author

The Fight Against Antisemitism Goes On - As This New Exhibition Shows

Wiener Holocaust Library explores struggle with fascism.

Protests against the work of antisemite and Holocaust denier David Irving, likely in relation to his employment by The Sunday Times, c. 1992. Courtesy of CST.

Jubilee Legacies: The Bits Of London Built And Named For Previous Jubilees

From windows to parks to... public loos.

The front of Buckingham Palace, with red flowers in the flower beds
Photo: Matt Brown

Postal Museum's Postcode Exhibition Gets Our Stamp Of Approval

A fun, trivia-packed show.

A big letter C welcomes people into an exhibition about postcodes

Review: To Kill A Mockingbird At Gielgud Theatre

Aaron Sorkin puts Atticus Finch centre stage in this reworking of Harper Lee's novel.

Photo: Marc Brenner

Last Updated 01 April 2022