Urban Junkies London | Weekend Guide September 25

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Fashion Week is over, The Design Festival ends this weekend, we lost Patrick Swayze, and you feel emotionally spent. So, either get out of town entirely with Mr and Mrs Smith, hook up some retail therapy with sample sales, rebel with bingo, bag art booty, and oh yeah, relax. And don’t forget to check out our LFW coverage - because nobody puts UJ in the corner. Though they didn’t exactly plant us front row either. We’re taking out Wintour with a watermelon next time.


• FRI Underground Rebel Bingo • SAT The Art Car Bootique • SUN Turner and the Masters

OFFER
Urban Junkies half price membership & Mr and Mrs Smith 2 for 1 Rooms

Mr & Mrs Smith have persuaded some of their favourite boutique boltholes to give you the ultimate special offer – two nights for the price of one – exclusively for Smith members. They’ve chosen their three most popular destinations at this time of year – the UK, Paris, and Morocco – so you can take your pick between autumnal countryside, chic city break and late summer sunshine. UJ subscribers can join the luxury hotel specialists for half price and take advantage of this offer, so now there really is no excuse.

FRIDAY

Underground Rebel Bingo
There’s something clandestinely fun about finding a dirty bingo hall behind the visage of a second–hand clothing store inside a shopping mall. Underground Rebel Bingo promises late night, dirty, noisy, hardcore bingo for people who like loud music, shouting, and need an outlet in which to indulge in their secret, shameful vice – the passion that dare not speak its name. Bingo. Prizes come from Kings of the useless novelty gifts, I Want One Of Those, and there’s the promise of top name DJs and a bar. The last tickets are available on the door – if you can find it.

Time:		10:30pm – 3am
Place:		Secret location near Angel Tube
Cost:		£8
Info:		Underground Rebel Bingo

Love’s Labour Lost
Taking a vow of celibacy in exchange for academic enlightenment is rarely a good plan (as anyone who’s benefited from the British university system knows, you’re far more likely to ditch the books for the bootay). Life gets especially hard (ahem) when an entourage of sexy French maidens make their way into your Kingdom. Dominic Dromgoole’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s wittiest comedy is full of puns, wordplay and parody, as well as geriatric mooning, drug addiction, and a spot of ‘snake strangling’.

Time:		7:30pm
Place:		Shakespeare’s Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, SE1 9DT
Cost:		£5 – £33
Info:		Love’s Labour Lost

SHOP
Lara Bohinc & Temperley London Sample Sales

Two of our favourite designers are kicking off double–day sample sales today – head to Lara Bohinc for beautiful metal wrought leather goods and jewellery with up to whopping 90% discounts, and Temperley for dreamy bohemian ready–to–wear, samples and accessories at up to 60% off.

UJ’s FASHION WEEK
We came, we drank, we saw some clothes

Fashion Week is over, Editors nationwide are bathing their blistered feet, and regular folks on the street are probably wondering what all the fuss was about. Yep, another LFW, another year – and we’ve got the best gossip, the funniest overheards, the prettiest invites, and some party parting shots to prove how hard we’ve been working. Yes, it is a tough life.

SATURDAY

Alternative Village Fête
You’d think a village would be prerequisite for a ‘village fête’ – which is where we, in grand old London town, fall sadly short. Luckily, Home Live Art have come to the rescue, setting up an alternative event with everything from Ukelele jams and rock–a–hula games to participatory skipping and hula hooping. There’ll be stalls by guerrilla knit artists ‘I Knit London’, The Make Lounge, The Society of Wonders, and cupcakes, candyfloss and popcorn.

Time:		1pm – 7:30pm
Place:		National Theatre, South Bank, SE1 9PX
Cost:		Free
Info:		Alternative Village Fête

The Art Car Bootique
Tom Dixon’s Design Festival ‘Dock’ is hosting this twist on the staid car boot sale – the Art Car Bootique will serve up all manner of artworks, artwares and services from the likes of Sir Peter Blake, Nick Reynolds, Gavin Turk, Pretty Taxing, Scrawl Collective and the House of Fairytales. Forget Monopoly boards with half the houses missing and scratched vinyls – this is stuff you’ll want to keep

Time:		10am – 6pm
Place:		The Dock, 344 Ladbroke Grove, W10 5BU
Cost:		Free
Info:		The Art Car Bootique

BOOK AHEAD
Pierre Koffman Pop–Up Rooftop Restaurant

As part of the highly anticipated London Restaurant Festival, legendary chef Pierre Koffman will be cooking on the rooftop of Selfridges, and hosting guest chefs including Tom Kitchin, Eric Chavot and Tom Aikens. Due to massive demand the week-long pop up has now been extended until the end of October – meaning you still have a chance to grab one of the 80 coveted seats.

8th – 31st October.
To book: 020-7318-7778 or
email restaurantontheroof@selfridges.co.uk

SUNDAY

Patrick Swayze Double Bill
Losing Patrick Swayze and Keith Floyd in the same breath is almost viciously unfair. One made us swoon with lust, the other spent most of his time swooning on red. So, as an homage, The Roxy are putting on a Ghost and Dirty Dancing Double Bill, with plenty of food and cheap plonk on the side. There’ll be dancing, there’ll be crying, there’ll be erotic pot–making and a few watermelons. The time of our lives? We owe it all to you Patrick.

Time:		5pm/ 8pm
Place:		Roxy Bar and Screen,128-132 Borough High Street, SE1 1LB
Cost:		Free to members / £3
Info:		Patrick Swayze Double Bill

Turner and the Masters
Remember that old kids song, ‘Anything you can do, I can do better’? Turns out Turner never really grew out of it. This exhibition lays out the artist’s own copycat work next to the likes of old masters Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian, showing how his fierce competitiveness drove him to prove that he could be just as good, if not better, as his own idols. Kind of like Gladiators for art – and you get to play referee. No giant ear–bud battles though – that would just be childish.

Time:		10am - 5pm
Place:		Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG
Cost:		£12.50
Info:		Turner and the Masters

TODAY
Central Perk Pops Up in Soho

No, we’re not over it either. Friends pretty much remains the only sitcom we can tune into anytime, anywhere, any episode. And now it’s time for The One In London, as the gang’s favourite hangout, Central Perk, prepares to take over a space in Soho. Props from the show including a bar of Mokolate and Rachel’s wedding dress will be on display, coffee will be served, and Gunther will be in situ for the opening night party.
24th September - 7th October
Central Perk, 67 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QY

Sweet Root Bombay Sapphire
Created by Chris Amey, The Soho Hotel

Muddle half a plum & 3 blackberries in a highball glass.
Add 50ml Bombay Sapphire, 10ml liquorice liqueur & 10ml fresh lemon juice.
Stir, add ice, top with ginger beer & stir again.
Garnish with half a fanned plum.

Available exclusively at the Bombay Sapphire Dusk Bar from 18th September - 5th October.

Bombay Sapphire Dusk Bar, River Terrace, Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA

Ten exquisitely crafted cocktails have been created by leading mixologists from some of London's most fashionable bars, inspired by dusk from the countries in which the ten exotic botanicals in Bombay Sapphire are sourced.

Weekend guide by AC & MaM

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