Avenue Q is wonderfully lawless chaos (with very rude puppets) April 17, 2026 Avenue Q review and star rating: ★★★★ Could brainrot actually be good? Well, no: but if it were to take an IRL form, in many ways it would be Avenue Q. The puppet musical has no significant overarching narrative. Instead, its main goal is to stitch together as many very silly jokes about willies and [...]
The golden boy: What we can learn from the late Henry Kelly April 16, 2026 If you’re of a certain age – by which I mean at least in your 40s – you may have memories of wasting afternoons watching the extraordinary Reg Grundy-produced Euroquiz Going for Gold. Its genius loci was an affable Irishman called Henry Kelly, a man whom you suspected of having a different brass-buttoned blazer for [...]
The Galvin brothers: Our Toast the City award means the world April 16, 2026 Our Toast the City Awards return for a second year, bigger, better and more ambitious than ever. We will once again shine a light on the restaurants, bars, green spaces and cultural hotspots that make the Square Mile one of London’s most exciting places to work and play. This year we’ve invited the winners from the [...]
Toast the City Awards return bigger and better for 2026! April 16, 2026 We’re back! Our Toast the City Awards return for a second year, bigger, better and more ambitious than ever. The awards will once again shine a light on the restaurants, bars, green spaces and cultural hotspots that make the Square Mile one of London’s most exciting places to work and play. Last year, you told [...]
Cognac: The storied history of France’s luxury spirit April 16, 2026 Whisky Business: City AM’s monthly look at the world of whisky. This week, a look at the world of Cognac. Cognac is one of the world’s most storied spirits. Created around 500 years ago, more out of necessity than anything else, Cognac is today associated with luxury, high-end quality and refined craftsmanship. The story of its [...]
The new V&A East Museum is a bold addition to Stratford April 16, 2026 If the purpose of art is to provoke a reaction, the V&A East Museum manages that feat before you’ve even stepped across its threshold. Design studio O’Donnell + Tuomey’s £135m creation is a mad-looking thing, an impossible collection of angles and aspects, animalesque, squatting on its haunches beside Sadler’s Wells and overlooking West Ham’s London [...]
Celebrating Pan Am’s iconic legacy as airline plans return to the skies April 15, 2026 Pan Am was the airline that defined the jet-set timepiece. Sam Kessler asks what made Pan Am an icon and why it’s still catnip for watch collectors It’s hard to talk about air travel without talking about Pan Am. Pan America Airways wasn’t just a big name in cross-continental flight: it was essentially a monopoly. [...]
A Doll’s House at the Almeida: Thrilling, steamy and ambitious April 14, 2026 A Doll’s House | Almeida | ★★★★☆ As Oscar Wilde probably never said, “Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” I can’t think of a pithier summary of this propulsive, steamy, ambitious retelling of Ibsen’s most enduring play, A Doll’s House. In this thoroughly modern version by Anya Reiss, [...]
The Last Supper: Michael Socha on his mum’s Sunday roast April 14, 2026 This is England and The Cage star Michael Socha tells us what he’d eat for his last meal on earth, from his mum’s Sunday roast to a Pizza Express dessert I’ve always liked food that’s a bit weird. I like going to the local store in different countries to try and find something strange. As [...]
Aziz Ansari talks cooking and writing over dinner at Hoppers April 13, 2026 Stand-up, actor and director Aziz Ansari is interviewed by his friend Karan Gokani, the restaurateur behind Hoppers. They tuck into a South Indian banquet at the brand new Hoppers Shoreditch to talk careers, inspiration and Indian cooking The Meal: Karan Gokani: Do you remember how we met? Aziz Ansari: Yeah, of course – I started [...]