Culture
Review: What the Moon Saw, The Place
You’ll have to hurry as it’s only on this week, but the 2Faced Dance Company have created the perfect diversion for kids now they’re on festive holidays
‘I’ve never really kept a diary. But I am an inveterate reader of other people’s’
Writer Travis Elborough on why he’s trawled through personal journals spanning the entire 20th Century
Watch a festive time-lapse from St Pancras International
The station’s mahoosive 2017 Christmas tree has just gone up, and it’s made from over 15,000 flowers
The curious history of the Almeida Theatre
The influential Islington theatre is featured in a new book by Michael Coveney. Photography by Peter Dazeley
MUST DO: Jasper Johns, jazz & pizza
It’s the last few weeks of the American legend at the Royal Academy
The big new Everyman in King’s Cross is now open
North London’s largest new cinema in years flung its doors open last night – and we had a sneak preview
Why you must catch Jean-Michel Basquiat at The Barbican
It’s the first ever big UK show by one of the world’s most highly prized artists – with a fascinating story too, says Stephen Emms
MUST DO: Reflect on gentrification (and then hallucinate)
Documenting Dalston’s Ridley Road Market. And an immersive boundary-pushing new show
Is it a bird, is it a plane…no it’s Jeremy Corbyn
A new comic book celebrates the unique quirks of the PM’s #1 adversary
A potted history: Bloomsbury’s top three hidden corners
Author Matthew Ingleby explores the area’s identity in a new book – and gives us a heads-up on where to wander
