TODAY
LRF Eat Film Screening: Waitress

We love the hip, five-star Covent Garden Hotel. We love the smart, quirky rom-com Waitress. And sipping champagne is always on our to-do list. So this London Restaurant Festival screening is one of our picks of the fest. Food writer Lauren Santtini will talk after the film, as the Laurent-Perrier gets handed around, and then everyone will sit down to a three-course dinner of fennel and grapefruit salad, slow-roast pork and moon pie.

6.30pm, Covent Garden Hotel, 10 Monmouth Street, WC2H 9HB, £55

TONIGHT
Supreme and O H W O W afterparty at The Nest

Combine a 90s hip-hop skate brand and the hottest talent to come out of NYC’s art scene and what do you get? A progressive art exhibition and equally cool afterparty to match. Lucien Smith of the O H W O W art collective debuts his first major solo show today at the Ritter/Zamet Gallery. Entitled ‘Needle in the Hay’, his various art forms look at rites of passage and the struggles of contemporary youth. Luckily you can forget your youthful frets at the after party – hosted by Supreme with music from No Fear and Physical Therapy. It’s sure to be a Supreme-ly good night.

The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ

SHOP
Own A Colour

Perhaps this is what you get the person who has everything: their own colour. It’s not quite as useful as, say, a gift voucher for DSM, but then it is for charity. Dulux is offering a choice of more than 16 million colours to “own” for £1 each, with all money going to the children’s charity UNICEF. So far, it looks like cool shades are the most popular: all the celebrities who have signed up so far, including Roger Moore, have gone for blues.

AGENDA PICK
Experimental Food Society Spectacular

The members of the Experimental Food Society reads like a list of our favourite gastronomists: Bompas & Parr, Lili Vanilli, Rebel Dining Society, Choc Star, Paul A Young. So when they get together for a two-day exhibition and banquet the following day, it’s a must-do event. Previous instalments have been innovative, fun and as spectacular as the title suggests; look out this time for edible clothing, a gothic chocolate house sculpture and camel milk ice cream.

Exhibition Fri 21 Oct-Sat 22 Oct 11am-6pm, £5
The Truman Brewery, Dray Walk Gallery, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL

Banquet Sun 23 Oct 7-11pm, £60, The Folly, 41 Gracechurch Street, EC3V 0BT

COMPETITION
Win a pair of tickets to see Death and The Maiden

When this play premiered at the Royal Court 20 years ago it was a huge hit, scooping an Olivier, making a star of Ariel Dorfman, and inspiring a Roman Polanski movie. Now Royal Court Associate Director Jeremy Herrin is bringing it back to the West End, with Thandie Newton as Paulina, the tortured political prisoner who thinks she has stumbled across her former tormenter. There are 3 pairs of tickets up for grabs for UJ readers – just email us to be in with a chance.

Previews start 13 Oct, Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, SW1Y 4DN, 0844 871 7622

T&Cs: Winning tickets are valid Mon-Thur until 31 Oct, subject to availability. Tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.

BOOK NOW
Curated by Lyle & Scott

There’s a special glow that comes with seeing an artist in a small venue just before they hit the big-time, which is why it’s a good idea to keep an eye on this series of gigs curated by the chic sportswear brand Lyle & Scott. They’ve cherry-picked a line-up of emerging talent for two gigs at XOYO (and others around the country) that includes Chad Valley, a one-man outfit playing Balearic-style sunset synthscapes, and Alex Clare, whose Major Lazer-produced album comes out later this year.

11 Oct & 29 Nov,
XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP, £6