Culture, food & travel from London and beyond | The Upcoming

London to celebrate Asian cocktail culture with week-long Taste The Orient festival in June

A new week-long cocktail festival, Taste The Orient, will run across London from 22nd to 28th June 2026, bringing together 45 Asian bars and...

Food & Travel Desk

Gorillaz at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Into Film Awards 2026: On the red carpet with the winners and presenters in London

Stories – Brought to Life at Frameless

Cristiana Ferrauti

Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe

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Movie
SXSW London 2026: Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day
★★★★★

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, with a cast rich in...

Mae Trumata
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Movie
Toy Story 5
★★★★★

You’ve got a friend in screens. Or do you? That’s the question at the heart...

Antonia Georgiou
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Movie
Effi O Blaenau
★★★★★

Adapted from Gary Owen’s one-woman play, Iphigenia in Splott, Marc Evans’s Welsh-language...

Andrew Murray
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Movie
Your Fault: London
★★★★★

Have you ever wondered what a Gen-Z Mills & Boon makeover would look like? Well,...

Antonia Georgiou

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Live music
Gorillaz at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
★★★★★

Exhilarating, expansive, multilingual and multigenerational – Gorillaz...

Sylvia Unerman 21st June 2026
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Live music
McFly at British Airways ARC in pictures

The editorial unit Photos: Nick Bennett For further information and future events,...

The editorial unit 19th June 2026
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Live music
Self Esteem at British Airways ARC
★★★★★

With the devastatingly high rate of recent music venue closures, the emergence...

Gem Hurley 17th June 2026
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Live music
OMD at Hampton Court Palace
★★★★★

Since the 1993 inception of Hampton Court Palace Festival, legends like Elton John,...

Gem Hurley 13th June 2026

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Theatre
Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe
★★★★★

Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s beloved...

Gala Woolley 20th June 2026
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Theatre
Compañía Rafaela Carrasco: Creaviva at Sadler’s Wells
★★★★★

For 23 years, the Flamenco Festival has been an...

Megan Merino 19th June 2026
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Theatre
RON at Riverside Studios
★★★★★

Veering from comedy into horror with some thorough detours into crime thriller, Ted...

Sylvia Unerman 17th June 2026
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Theatre
Radiohead and Shakespeare collide as Hamlet Hail to the Thief heads to the Barbican

Following acclaimed, sold-out runs in...

The editorial unit 11th June 2026

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Food & Drinks
London to celebrate Asian cocktail culture with week-long Taste The Orient festival in June

A new week-long cocktail festival,...

Food & Travel Desk 20th June 2026
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Food & Drinks
Foodie father figures: Ten London venues with special offers for Father’s Day

For anyone who might have missed it:...

Food & Travel Desk 19th June 2026
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Food & Drinks
Benugo branches nationwide are honouring father figures with freebies this weekend

Food and drinks are most delicious when...

Food & Travel Desk 19th June 2026
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Food & Drinks
London Epicerie to open in Belgravia, for specialist foods and everyday groceries

London Epicerie, a new food shop founded by...

Food & Travel Desk 18th June 2026

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Show
Sugar season two
★★★★★

Colin Farrell returns as the titular sharp-suited private investigator in the second season of...

Andrew Murray 19th June 2026
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Show
House of the Dragon season three
★★★★★

Two years after the season two finale left audiences on a tantalising cliffhanger...

Andrew Murray 18th June 2026
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Show
The Agency season two
★★★★★

Michael Fassbender is back as undercover CIA operative Martian for the second season of...

Andrew Murray 17th June 2026
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Show
Funboys season two
★★★★★

Co-creators and writers Rian Lennon and Ryan Dylan return alongside co-stars Lee R James and...

Andrew Murray 15th June 2026

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Album
Graham Coxon – Castle Park
★★★★★

With Castle Park, Graham Coxon, formerly of the Brit-pop parish with his time...

Ronan Fawsitt 19th June 2026
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Album
Pond – Terrestrials
★★★★★

It’s wild to think Western Australia’s indie outfit Pond has been going for...

Hannah Broughton 18th June 2026
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Album
Embrace – Avalanche
★★★★★

With their band lineup remaining unchanged since 1996, Embrace are celebrating 30 years...

Gem Hurley 8th June 2026
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Album
Freya Ridings – Mother of Pearl
★★★★★

Freya Ridings is gifted at turning songwriting into storytelling. Written...

Kadzy Kagura-Watson 29th May 2026

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Self-expression in full colour: The art of dressing for pride

Of all the ways people mark Pride, the most immediate and the most...

The editorial unit 22nd June 2026
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The rubber revolution: how a humble material became luxury watchmaking’s favourite upgrade

Once dismissed as poolside kit, the...

The editorial unit 17th June 2026
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How cheese boards are becoming the centrepiece of modern entertaining

After years of rushed schedules and busy social calendars,...

The editorial unit 17th June 2026
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James Bond is getting younger and the clues are out there now

Denis Villeneuve is busy finishing Dune: Part Three, but the...

The editorial unit 12th June 2026

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How British pop culture has influenced digital games

British pop culture has had a noticeable influence on the development of...

The editorial unit 17th June 2026
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Interactive learning apps: Ten best tools to use in 2026

Adult participation in self-directed professional training has risen...

The editorial unit 11th June 2026
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The Highest Stakes (2026): Why people are still obsessed with the gaming thriller

Society remains completely obsessed with...

The editorial unit 10th June 2026
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Summer earns spot on quarterly best album chart

Recently,NetEase Cloud Music released its official music chart for the first...

The editorial unit 9th June 2026