Author: Storefront City Team
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Made in Ancient Egypt
At the Fitzwilliam Museum, the past showed its working. And before its recent close (3rd October 2025 – 12th April 2026), Made in Ancient Egypt became one of the most tactile and human exhibitions to hit the UK in years. This wasn’t another parade of gods and gilded afterlives. Instead, it slipped behind the spectacle…
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It Walks Around The House At Night
There is something devilishly pleasing about a play that asks its audience to be frightened by a man pretending to be a ghost only to learn, slowly, that he may not be the only spectre walking the boards that evening. Tim Foley’s It Walks Around The House At Night, the latest from ThickSkin at Southwark…
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The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition
There are moments in archaeology when the past does not sit behind glass but rises about you, bright, living, and (especially when it speaks of disaster) troubling. The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition at Immerse LDN (until 15th March, 2026) understands this. It’s an informative, engulfingly advanced, multisensory spectacle that is as ambitious…
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A Ghost In Your Ear
A Ghost In Your Ear (6th December 2025 to 14th February 2026) is a classic ghost story, and it wears this ancestry with pride. M. R. James is evident in the tale’s fascination with haunted spaces, unwise inquisitiveness, and the slow encroachment of the eerie. Yet this is not some sort of retro pastiche. Writer-director…
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Plonk Crazy Golf at Borough Market
Plonk Crazy Golf at Borough Market is exactly the kind of place you hope to find hiding under London Bridge. Tucked away beneath the arches of Borough High Street, it feels a bit clandestine, a bit chaotic, and full of energy. This is one of two Plonk locations across the city, with its sibling over…
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Secret Maps
Away from the research archives of the British Library, a new exhibition invites you into a world shaped as much by omission as by exposé. Secret Maps (24th October, 2025 – 18th January 2026) is a study of human inquisitiveness and caution. It shows how our species has long charted the Earth while guarding the…
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Notting Hill Carnival 2025
On the final Monday of August, the streets of West London transformed into a kaleidoscope of Caribbean culture as Notting Hill Carnival 2025 unfolded in its full, dazzling glory. Now in its sixth decade, Europe’s largest street festival is a living, breathing celebration of migration, resilience, and joy. The air pulsed with energy as throngs…
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Ancient India: Living Traditions
Step into the hushed galleries of the British Museum and you are immediately enveloped in veils of silk, soft light, and the murmuring soundscapes of ritual. Ancient India: Living Traditions is more than an exhibition of stone and bronze; it is an attempt to conjure the enduring vitality of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, from their…
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Malta Themed Tours presents: Sinful Secrets of Valletta- Blood, Booty and Courtesans
Malta Themed Tours offers unique and immersive guided experiences in Valletta, focusing on dark tourism. Their tours, led by passionate local guides like Giacomo, blend history with roleplaying to engage participants deeply. This approach allows travelers to explore Malta’s vibrant past in a cheeky, insightful way, providing a memorable experience.
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The Pilot Greenwich
WHAT: The Pilot GreenwichWHERE: 68 River Way, London, SE10 0BE OUR RATING: Do It! Steeped in history, The Pilot Greenwich stands as a living testament to London’s storied by-gone eras. Housed in a building dating back to the early 1800s—with a stone tablet proclaiming “CEYLON PLACE New East Greenwich 1801”—this establishment is one of the…