Personalities
What makes a city more than a collection of strangers? On 12 September in Gloucester and 14–15 September in London, How to Build the City turns theatre, dance, gaming and live interaction into a three-hour exploration of how cities — and communities — are built. We spoke to the artists behind it.
Travel & Food
Kimchi is the new black and the UK is obsessed. British makers are taking this Korean staple and making it their own. We've rounded up 12 UK-based brands that are redefining fermentation and proving that gut health never tasted this good.
Travel & Food
Why the world is falling for English wine
Fashion & Beauty
all the drops that mattered this week
Art
The internet is drowning in AI slop, but at the Southbank Centre’s new Creative Intelligence festival, artists are using technology to examine memory, labour, ecology and identity rather than simply generating another woman with seven fingers.
Hot takes
Gen Z's newest go-to insult, explained so you get it
Films
The Venice Film Festival is just around the corner, so now is the perfect time to put together a shortlist of favourites to avoid getting lost in the sea of spoilers and posts.
First autumn partnerships: from cathedrals to couture, fancy matcha bars and a very robotic Barbie
A supper club is an intimate dining experience, typically hosted in someone's home or a private setting. There's no booking your own table — everyone gathers around one shared table, enjoying the same carefully curated menu.
At Roca London Gallery, Resonant Lightscapes brings together light, sound, reflection and architecture in a responsive environment. We spoke with artists Gadi Sassoon, Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan, and curator Alisa Lisovskaia about collaboration, feedback and letting go of control.
Microtonal explores the endangered tradition of the borindo, bringing together 200 handcrafted instruments, technology and the knowledge of the musicians and craftspeople keeping its legacy alive. We talked about this work with Invisible Flock in this interview
The collabs you need to know about this week — from ballet pink to fried chicken wine
This year, a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective is travelling through Europe. Here’s whether it is worth a visit and why you might not get in.
ChatGPT said: Creative Director of sova Restaurant — an Eastern European wine and vinyl bar in Notting Hill — creates a list of perfect drink-and-music combinations that you’ll love trying for yourself.
From cultural milestones to pieces we'd genuinely queue for — this week has it all.
Best Pizza was created around the idea of reviving the neighbourhood pizzeria. What do you think makes a pizzeria feel like a genuine part of its neighbourhood rather than simply another restaurant? I think a pizzeria feels like part of the neighbourhood, especially when someone who lives in the neighbourhood
Meryl Streep’s wardrobe at auction, feasteables sparkling water and new Disney T-shirt – another week in collabs
It’s not spooky season yet, but the ghosts are already back. They’re not here to scare us; instead, they make us reflect on death, grief, and the small, unseen stories of big cities — stories we may not see, but can somehow feel. An interview with Simon Wroe, author of Ghost Month.
Walks we love. The city we adore.