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This weekend we’ve peppered the schedule with a bit of everything. Highlights include live jazz, sweat-infused techno and an homage to Stanley Kubrick. For sustenance in between, we’ll be checking out the recently refurbed St John Bread and Wine and joining the queue for Bao Fitzrovia. Enjoy!
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| • FRI St John Bread and Wine • SAT Bao Fitzrovia • SUN Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick |
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| | Top 5 places for low alcohol cocktails | | | Want to have a lunch with a bit of buzz? Here are our top 5 spots. | |  | | 1. For some of the best cocktails, low boozers and mocktails in London, it has to be Dandelyan, with Ryan Chetiyawardana in charge of the botanical menu
2. For some serious fun, pull up a seat at 45 Jermyn St. and make your way through the menu of apéritif sodas, Rickies and ice cream floats
3. For the lighter side of afternoon drinking, try the ‘bridging’ menu at Hawksmoor Air Street
4. Looking for a fix of Aperol Spritz and dose of Vitamin D? Make your way to Bird of Smithfield’ rooftop Aperol Spritz Terrazza
5. Learn the 101s of the traditional Mediterranean aperitif and try the new vermouth cocktail menu at The Remedy
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| | Friday | |  |  |  | | | EAT: | | Party: | | St John Bread and Wine | | Krankbrother at Dance Tunnel | | | If, like us, you love a bit of bar dining, good news, St John Bread and Wine in Spitalfields has reopened, with brand new counter dining . The new area (where the kitchen was) doesn’t take reservations, so it’s just the tonic for the less-organised among you. Simply pull up a stool, enjoy some French wine and St John classics for a leisurely meal. Or simply pop in for an espresso and some freshly baked madeleines or doughnuts.
| | Another one bites the dust: Dance Tunnel is closing its doors in August meaning this will be last Tunnel Vision party with Krankbrother. Playing a guaranteed sweat-soaked five-hour set, the brothers will be on decks spinning their brand of techno from 10pm-3am. Finish the night off with a Giorgio Moroder pizza slice from Voodoo Rays upstairs. Perfect.
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94-96 Commercial Street,
E1 6LZ
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£10
95 Kingsland High Street,
E8 2PB
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| | Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern | | | Until 30 October | | | Sponsored Listing | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II 1930 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, USA). Gift of The Burnett Foundation © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London | | | Georgia O’Keeffe is an American icon, trailblazing artist and fundamentally important to the history of modern art. Best known for her paintings of magnified flowers, animal skulls, and New Mexico desert landscapes, the exhibition brings together over 100 of her most important works from six decades of her career. With no works by O’Keeffe in UK public collections, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for audiences outside the US to view her vast body of work. Book tickets now.
| | | | Georgia O’Keeffe at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG. until October 30
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| | Saturday | |  | |  | | | EAT: | | PARTY: | | Bao Fitzrovia | | Brilliant Corners’ Backstage | | | If you’re still queuing at Bao in Soho, good news: their second site in Fitzrovia has opened. Aside from the classics, the new site will focus on fish and rice dishes (such as fried fish baos and congees). As for us, we’ll be joining the queue (yes, no reservations!) for the BAO milkshakes: think ‘choc & toasted rice’ and ‘condensed milk’.
| | One of our favourite Dalston bars, Brilliant Corners, will be heading south this weekend, popping up at Sunfall Festival in the form of ‘Brilliant Corners Backstage’. Basically, it’s the bar, in pop up form. We’re told to expect their audiophile sound system, with the don of recorded collectors playing their curated handpicked selection of vinyls, an intimate dance floor and, of course, Japanese food.
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Prices vary
31 Windmill Street,
W1T 2JN
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£67.50 (includes a day pass)
Brockwell,
SE24 0NG
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SEE TENNIS DIFFERENTLY THIS SUMMER | | | The Time Portal, 7th-10th July | | | Sponsored Listing | |  | | Travel back to 1877 London in this immersive theatrical adventure where a host of colourful Victorian characters will help you get to a little known tennis tournament called Wimbledon. And when you’re ready to go back to the future, the main bar will be serving up your favourite premium Belgian beer, Victorian-inspired food from gastronomical geniuses Bompas & Parr, and screening Wimbledon 2016.
Created with Olivier nominated Les Enfants Terribles, and Framestore, the studio behind Oscar-winning movie Gravity.
| | | | Tickets from £13.50 (incl. a £1 booking fee) available here.
Your ticket includes two complimentary drinks. Additional drinks may be purchased after the experience.
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| | SEE | | | THE LUNA CINEMA SCREENINGS | | | Sponsored Listing | |  | | | Fancy a different kind of outdoor cinema experience? Then check out The Luna Cinema. Whether you choose to sit in a moat at the Tower of London for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo+ Juliet, sit sky high at One New Change for Die Hard, or head for the water – Brockwell Lido for Jaws or The Titanic – this is outdoor cinema at it’s best. There are premium chairs, food and drink options and films include recent blockbusters like Mad Max: Fury Road as well as old classics like Mean Girls and Top Gun across several locations. So get a picnic, and go somewhere new to see a great film under the stars.
| | | | To book tickets visit thelunacinema.com
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| | Sunday | |  | |  | | | EAT: | | SEE: | | Souljazz at the Jazz Cafe | | Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick | | | After last week’s live orchestra (to Psycho), we’re amped for some more live orchestral tunes. So, this Sunday we’ll be heading to the newly renovated The Jazz Café for a blasting by the Souljazz Orchestra. Expect nothing short of their signature brand of jazz, Afro, Latin and Caribbean mashups, with horns, keyboards and an “arsenal of earthquaking percussion”. A cure for the Sunday blues, surely.
| | If you’re a fan of Stanley Kubrick, then you’ll love the surreal homage to the cult director at Somerset House. Over 50 works by artists, filmmakers and musicians, including Anish Kapoor, Gavin Turk and Sarah Lucas make up the haunting exhibition. Expect to pass through the carpeted corridor of The Overlook Hotel, lose yourself in a maze of mirrors and listen to a choir performing the chilling composition from The Shining. And that’s just the start. There are short films to watch, scents to sniff, and immersive video art to take in.
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£12.50
5 Parkway,
NW1 7PG
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From £12.50
Strand,
WC2R 1LA
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Covent Garden After Hours | | | #CGAfterHours | | | Sponsored Listing | |  | | | As you know, Covent Garden is getting involved in some after hours fun. Throughout July, shops will be open until 9pm and buzzing with late night shopping events. Tonight, stop by The Beauty Spot at The Market Building for a complimentary makeover and rummage thorough a dressing up box. Peruse the beauty shops for free in-store activities (Charlotte Tilbury is doing Touch Ups, Aveda has a braid bar on the Piazza, Chanel is offering manicures in store…to name a just few activities). And, finally, finish up at the Portobello Road Gin Bar (inside The Market Building) for some gins and live tunes. Thursday night, party! For more information, visit www.coventgarden.london/after-hours
| | | | Covent Garden After Hours, from Wednesday to Saturday every week in July. Find out more about Covent Garden After Hours and visit: www.coventgarden.london/after-hours
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| | George Shaw: My Back to Nature | | | Free Exhibition | | | Sponsored Listing | | 
Detail from George Shaw, The Living and the Dead, 2015-16 © Courtesy: The Artist and Wilkinson Gallery, London | | | Take a walk in the woods with the National Gallery’s current Associate Artist, George Shaw, who has been busy creating new work in response to the collection. A former Turner Prize-nominee, Shaw is renowned for his contemporary suburban subject matter and for using Humbrol enamel paint, typically used to colour model trains and aeroplanes. To celebrate this free exhibition, the National Gallery is hosting a series of events including talks with poet Paul Farley and writer Iain Sinclair, as well as workshops exploring contemporary art and urban landscapes.
| | | Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. #GeorgeShaw
George Shaw: My Back to Nature, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN. Until October 30
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