15 h. ago TOM PARKER BOWLES: I tried America's famous Philly cheesesteak for the first time

Kensington's new crush? Philadelphia's famous cheesesteak sandwich. Tom knows where to try it

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48 h. ago The Great Gatsby, London Coliseum review: Pretty but dumb musical adaptation of the great novella

The Great Gatsby, London Coliseum review: Pretty but dumb musical adaptation of the great novella  Time Out

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50 h. ago Review: Flying British Airways Business Class from Los Angeles to London

Review: Flying British Airways Business Class from Los Angeles to London  Business Traveler USA

Transport

56 h. ago Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMultitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic OrchestraThe Southbank Centre’s cross-genre Multitudes festival opened with a double bill of Ravel’s ballets Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and performed by the Australian company Circa with choreography by their artistic director Yaron Lifschitz. Circa’s style amalgamates circus and acrobatics with contemporary dance, and the combination of athletic beauty, agility and strength suits Ravel uncommonly well.Rather than use the music as accompaniment to display, Lifschitz worked with the score rather than against it, though he dispensed with Daphnis et Chloé’s narrative, replacing it with a sequence of contrasting abstract tableaux, now exhilarating,now erotic, always rooted in the pulse and throb of the music, played with exquisite finesse and detail by the LP...

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59 h. ago David Ellis reviews One Club Row: Imagine the Dev and the Dover hooked up

It’s as if the owners actually want you to have fun, writes David Ellis — can you imagine?

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3 d. ago Personal Values review – shocks as sisters reunite for the first time since their father’s funeral

Hampstead theatre, LondonBea, a hoarder, is visited by Veda, who carries a secret, to fix the rift between them in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play, full of vivid dialogue and foreboding rumblesObjects pile and tower as walls in Chloë Lawrence-Taylor’s debut play. Since their father’s funeral, when Bea scratched an obscene picture into Veda’s car bonnet, the two sisters have lost contact, and Bea has been isolated in an ever-growing haven of “stuff”. Old vinyl, books, crockery, bags for life and mountains of cutlery have turned her home into a graveyard of the past. To an outsider, it is the depths of hoarding; to Bea, every dusty item is a relic to be pored over and adored.But, now Veda has stopped by unexpectedly to “fix” things. Lawrence-Taylor’s vivid dialogue paints the sisters both as strangers, with years missing between them, and familiars, bound by their shared youth. They remember intimate details about each other; Veda drinks camomile tea, Bea loves bonsai trees. The ac...

Events

6 d. ago The Edwardians: Age of Elegance; Cartier review – excess all areas

King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; V&A, London British royal history in the era of Fabergé, photography, empire, war and tiny waists is an expertly spangled soap opera. And a blockbuster Cartier show of jewels, maharajas and movie stars rises above the gossipThe future Edward VII looks out from a white marble bust at the start of The Edwardians: Age of Elegance. His eyes have a familiar exophthalmic bulge beneath heavy Saxe-Coburg lids. The sculptor has turned the prince’s head a fraction, to give him a flatteringly distant air of authority, but is otherwise faithful to the facts: Edward’s love of upturned wing collars, of informal jackets and the wide tie knot he popularised, known to this day as the Windsor.Edward (1841-1910) – Bertie, as he was familiarly known – was the eldest son of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. She is said to have blamed the boy, or at least his chronic philandering, for her husband’s premature death. Prince of Wales until the age of almost 60, waiting...

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6 d. ago Dove, London: ‘inventive, unusual, tantalising’ – restaurant review

Dove, London: ‘inventive, unusual, tantalising’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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7 d. ago Now Play This 2025 review – the end of an era of experimental game design

Somerset House, LondonAfter 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The TraitorsWhen she was a child growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Holly Gramazio made up a game with her friend Summer. The two girls would lie back on swings with their eyes closed. When someone made too much noise nearby, they’d sit to attention and yell as loudly as they could: “Don’t wake me up!” The game captured a child’s view of grownups and their irksome inconsistencies – the self-defeating idea, or perhaps threat, that an adult could scream themselves awake amid their stated efforts to remain asleep. It was a co-operative game: the two girls “won” if they shouted in unison. If only one yelled, they lost. “This is the first game I remember playing,” records Gramazio in the printed guide (which also doubles as a delicious compendium of folk g...

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7 d. ago 'This is a lunch of heartily refined cooking with service to match': TOM PARKER BOWLES reviews a Bath restaurant

Tom falls for a Bath restaurant that has risen from the ashes of a former nightclub

Society

7 d. ago Sézane’s Clyde Trench Coat Is the ‘It’ Piece in London—I Reviewed It

Sézane’s Clyde Trench Coat Is the ‘It’ Piece in London—I Reviewed It  PureWow

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8 d. ago 'Indulging Kleptocracy' Review: Inside the Industries Enabling Dirty Money in London

'Indulging Kleptocracy' Review: Inside the Industries Enabling Dirty Money in London  Foreign Policy

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1 week ago Live Review: The Delines + Peter Bruntnell, Union Chapel, London – 4th April 2025

Live Review: The Delines + Peter Bruntnell, Union Chapel, London – 4th April 2025  Americana UK

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1 week ago Moment village pub is forced to close after 50 travellers descended on Surrey beauty spot forcing 'Britain's Beverley Hills' to close down

The shocking footage, exclusively obtained by MailOnline, shows the huge group pile into the pub and demand they are served alcohol as other regulars struggle to get drinks.

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1 week ago Moment 50 travellers invade Surrey pub: Huge group snatch bottles, pour alcohol all over the floor and smash glass during rampage that saw 'Britain's Beverly Hills' locked down

The shocking footage, exclusively obtained by MailOnline, shows the huge group pile into the pub and demand they are served alcohol as other regulars struggle to get drinks.

Events

1 week ago UK city pub serves earliest pint at 6am for people who fancy a drink first thing

The Stoney Street pub’s early morning hours are popular among night shift workers such as nurses, police officers or anyone who fancies starting their day with a tipple

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1 week ago Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots; José María Velasco: A View of Mexico – review

Serpentine South Gallery; National Gallery, London The arte povera veteran’s passionate celebration of trees risks being eclipsed by the real ones that surround it. And a 19th-century Mexican polymath becomes the first Latin American artist to have a solo show at the National GalleryA tree towers upwards in Kensington Gardens, slender but unimaginably strong, grey boulders perched like vultures among its branches. Another gestures directly to the sky, twigs spreading in eloquent appeal. A third can be seen at great distance, shattered as if by lightning, its broken glory shining bright cold in the sunshine.For one exhilarating moment it seemed as if the acclaimed Italian artist Giuseppe Penone had come upon these trees and simply adjusted them, with poetic ingenuity, to emphasise their exceptional strength and beauty. Then, just as viewers were discussing how miraculous trees are – everyone stunned, everyone photographing this radiant glade – someone knocked on a trunk. And we heard...

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1 week ago Dorian, London: ‘Truly refined decadence’ – restaurant review

Dorian, London: ‘Truly refined decadence’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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2 w. ago FLIGHT REVIEW: Virgin Atlantic Business Class From London to Atlanta

FLIGHT REVIEW: Virgin Atlantic Business Class From London to Atlanta - "I Was Wrong"  Turning left for less

Transport

2 w. ago Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer

Palladium, LondonThe singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans“I’m all about playful subversion,” declares Olly Alexander with a grin on the final night of his UK tour. Clad in a series of outfits whose shiny buttons nod towards London’s pearly kings and queens and the dressing-up box – there’s one handily located on the left side of the stage – he is outlining the essence of Polari, the slang once used by the LGBTQ+ community, showfolk and the denizens of London’s Soho, as was.Evolving out of the vocabularies of Italian immigrants and Travellers to evade the understanding of law enforcement and mainstream society in the 19th and early-mid 20th centuries, Polari also doubles as the title of Alexander’s latest, queer-club pop-themed album. Released two months ago, it was the first under his own name; previously, he had traded as Years & Years, first as a band, then as a ...

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