Time Out Worldwide • 7th July 2026

The world’s most liveable cities in 2026 have been named – with one European capital topping the list again

This year’s Global Liveability Index has landed– can you guess which city came out on top for the second year running?Here at Time Out, ranking cities is basically our love language. Every year, we round up the best cities in the world according to thousands of locals, so we know a thing or two about what makes somewhere great to live – not just nice to visit.
Our annual rankings rely on thousands of responses from locals around the world, but if you're after the hard-data-driven version, the G...

Cable Magazine • 7th July 2026

At Schiaparelli, a creative block became a couture collection cast in silicone

Couture press notes often promise transcendence, especially if they’re opening Paris haute couture week at the Petit Palais on Monday 6 July. The ones handed out at Schiaparelli’s autumn/winter 2026 show described a failure instead. Daniel Roseberry admitted that after last season’s breakthrough he tried to rerun the formula and flew to Barcelona to be inspired by Gaudí, only to come home with nothing. He described the months that followed as a “possibility-denying, misery-making cycle” and said...

Cable Magazine • 22nd June 2026

Louis Vuitton Is Spending Summer in Arles and the Itinerary Looks Incredible

If you have ever needed an excuse to spend July in the south of France, Louis Vuitton has just provided several. This summer, in celebration of ten years of the Louis Vuitton City Guides, the house is heading to Arles for Les Rencontres de la Photographie, one of the most important photography festivals in the world. From 7th July to 5th October, Louis Vuitton will transform Le Buste et l’Oreille, a venue in the centre of Arles, into a temporary bookstore and exhibition space, hosting a series o...

Cable Magazine • 19th June 2026

What Is Max Mara? The House Heads to Shanghai to Find Out

New Yorker staff writer Patricia Marx observed that New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn’t even sit down. It is hard to imagine a more fitting backdrop for a brand that has spent seventy-five years making the case that a woman in motion should never have to think about what she is wearing. Max Mara chose the Long Museum for its Resort 2027 show, and in those soaring vaulted spaces, surrounded by a city that has always understood the relationship between ambition and aes...

Time Out Worldwide • 2nd July 2026

Revealed: the trending European ‘coolcations’ to escape the heatwave

Ditch your flip-flops and pack some layers instead – these are the best not-so-hot holiday spotsJust when you thought it was safe to pack away the desk fan, the heat is mounting a comeback. Following last week’s record-shattering European scorcher, forecasters warn the UK is due for a repeat performance. But instead of stripping off, plenty of us are packing bags for much crisper climes. 
New data from travel agent Opodo shows a massive spike in travellers hunting for milder European getaways i...

Time Out London • 2nd July 2026

The 6 best free things to do in London this weekend [July 3-5 2026]

July has arrived and, if you’re lucky, your wallet is looking particularly plump post-payday. The temptation would of course be to spend the weekend splashing all that cash eating at London’s finest al fresco restaurants, lounging at its outdoor cinemas, sinking ice-cold cocktails at its rooftop bars or securing last minute tickets to BST Hyde Park. 
But let’s rein that in a little. We’ve still got an entire month ahead of us, full of day festivals and other fantastic goings on that you’ll want...

Time Out Worldwide • 1st July 2026

The best bars in Europe have just been named for 2026

Athens has swept in to claim the inaugural title of best bar in Europe, with a spot that turns leftover ketchup and potato water into award-winning cocktailsGrab a glass, because there’s a brand new ranking to get stuck into. European bars have long featured heavily on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, but now the continent has its own dedicated spin-off: the aptly-named Europe’s 50 Best Bars. 
The inaugural edition (sponsored by Perrier) was revealed at a ceremony in Amsterdam on June 30, and the...

Time Out London • 30th June 2026

Why does this posh south London bingo hall now have a blue plaque?

Eyes down at the Granada in Tooting, where the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix once playedMove over Brixton Academy. South London’s most rock n roll venue isn’t a stadium, pub or even, these days, a place with live music. It’s a Grade I-listed bingo hall in Tooting called Buzz Bingo. And this past weekend, after a three-year grassroots campaign, it’s received a new blue plaque. 
What has a bingo venue done to deserve such an accolade? Well, Buzz Bingo Tooting was once a legendary music...

Time Out London • 30th June 2026

The magCulture Fair | Pentagram Design | Things to do in London

If you’ve ever rifled through the interesting titles in specialist indie magazine shop magCulture and wished you could meet the people behind the glossy pages you were flicking through, here’s your chance. The print mecca is hosting its inaugural magazine fair at design studio Pentagram’s Islington HQ, bringing together 40 independent titles to browse and buy directly from their publishers. Expect magazines covering design, wine, sex, food, sport, juggling and everything in between, with publish...

Time Out London • 30th June 2026

London Indian Film Festival | various cinemas | Things to do in London

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan (aka India’s answer to Tom Hanks) is heading to the BFI Southbank this July for the London Indian Film Festival (LIFF).  Returning for its 17th year to take over six UK cities for ten days, the festival is bringing an absolute mammoth of a line-up. The biggest coup? Snagging the notoriously private Khan for a rare live Q&A. His appearance sits alongside a 25th-anniversary IMAX screening of Lagaan, the Oscar-nominated cricket epic that catapulted him to fame. 
The...

Time Out London • 26th June 2026

K-pop group ATEEZ are headlining London’s BST Hyde Park on Sunda

The K-pop group headline BST Hyde Park on Sunday June 28 for the first time with Taemin, FLO and Bazzi in support. Here’s all the essential informationThis Sunday, ATEEZ are taking over BST Hyde Park with a headline slot. They’re only the third K-pop act ever to headline the Great Oak Stage, following BLACKPINK (in 2023) and Stray Kids (in 2024).
If you’ve never seen ATEEZ live, brace yourself. The eight-piece are famous for choreography that leaves you exhausted just watching. This is their fi...

Time Out London • 26th June 2026

Time Out’s ultimate guide to Take That at the London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is bringing the massive DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS world tour to north London this weekend. Here’s all the essential informationIf you’ve got tickets to Bad Bunny this weekend, you’re in for a treat. After playing 10 nights in Madrid and staging one of the most watched Super Bowl Halftime shows in history, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio is bringing the DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS world tour to London for his first ever UK stadium shows. If those aforementioned performances are...

Time Out Worldwide • 26th June 2026

‘Flesh-rotting’ bacteria and water shortages: The heatwave’s impact on Europe’s beaches

As the summer holiday season begins, Europe's holiday hotspots are running out of water and filling up with bacteria – here’s what’s going onEurope is mid-heatwave and mid-meltdown.
A ‘heat dome’ has built over much of Western Europe this week: think of it as a giant lid trapping hot air over the continent, suppressing clouds and sending temperatures soaring. France, Spain and Italy have seen temperatures of 40C while the UK has experienced its hottest June on record.
It comes as the contine...

Time Out London • 24th June 2026

Peggy Gou presents The Gou,tique | Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes | Things to do in London

Even if the name Peggy Gou doesn't immediately ring a bell, your eardrums are almost certainly familiar with her work. The South Korean cultural phenomenon is the brains behind ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’, the inescapable, planet-conquering dance anthem that soundtracked every single festival and pub beer garden back in summer 2023. Now, the global DJ and fashion icon is playing fairy godmother to East London.
To celebrate her euphoric new single ‘Wo,man’ (featuring Ayra Starr), she’s opening a on...

Time Out London • 26th June 2026

A massive outdoor pasta terrace is coming to Bloomsbury

There are plenty of spots throwing flour around in London, but few command a cult following quite like Bancone. Known for churning out affordable, Michelin-grade fresh pasta, the chain is set to open its sixth location – and this one’s got a sprawling 60-seat al fresco terrace.
Bancone opened its first outpost in Covent Garden in 2018, where it has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand (Michelin’s award for affordable grub) for the past seven years. The group has since expanded to Westminster’s Golden S...

Time Out Worldwide • 26th June 2026

You can now get an overnight bullet train between Japan’s major cities

The one-time service is the first sleeper train to run between Tokyo and OsakaJapan has a talent for making the rest of the world feel behind. Ramen dispensed from a vending machine at 2am? Of course. A toilet that anticipates your needs before you’ve even sat down? Standard. The latest futuristic venture? The first overnight bullet train service between Tokyo and Osaka is hitting the tracks this summer.
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) has announced the Tokaido Lumière Express, an ov...

Time Out London • 25th June 2026

The 6 best free things to do in London this weekend [June 26-28 2026]

From browsing Peggy Gou’s wardrobe to dancing through Hackney, here’s what you can do for free in the capital this weekendThere’s only one thing that Londoners have been talking about this week: the sweltering, stifling, skin-melting heatwave. Summer has arrived with a vengeance and not to be dramatic but the city is one ginormous oven right now. We’ve all had to reshuffle our plans and routines to cope. 
Much of this weekend will be no different. Friday is set to hit an aggressive 37C and Satu...

Cable Magazine • 24th June 2026

The Ordinary Avant-Garde of Hair Stylist Pablo Kümin

Long before he was building gravity-defying structures that even Elphaba would envy for avant-garde runways, Kümin was cutting wigs for cancer and alopecia patients. “I think that was my groundwork,” he says. “It set me apart from most people working with wigs and gave my career the nudge it needed.” It is hard to spend that much time understanding what hair means to someone who has lost it and come away thinking of it as just a styling medium.This grounding hasn’t stopped him moving into strang...

Time Out London • 24th June 2026

A new five-floor queer club has opened at Soho’s iconic former G-A-Y bar

Nine months since it closed, the former home of G-A-Y has opened as a new queer venue. Reclaiming the legendary space at 30 Old Compton Street is Coven: Headquarters. The massive new club proudly bills itself as a space for ‘every letter of LGBTQIA’ and, better yet, it’s spread over a whopping five storeys.
The venue is the brainchild of Matthew Jacobs Morgan, who started Coven as a club night in Hackney Wick just last year. Morgan has rapidly scaled the concept into a major queer cultural proj...

Time Out Worldwide • 24th June 2026

It's about to get a lot more expensive to visit and live in Japan – here's why

Japan is hiking its tourist visa fees fivefold in the country’s first price update since 1978Is Tokyo on your 2026 travel list? Well, we’ve got some not-so-great news: travel to Japan from July 1 is becoming a lot more (as in, five times more) expensive.
In the first revision to its visa costs since 1978, Japan is quintupling visa fees for tourists and business travellers starting next week. 
So, how much will travellers have to pay? A single-entry visa for one-time visitors will increase from...

Time Out London • 23rd June 2026

ASOS is planning its first ever London high street store

The online giant is reportedly set to open its first permanent shop in the capitalThe online fashion giant single handedly responsible for the nation’s ‘jeans and a nice top’ epidemic is reportedly eyeing up its first ever permanent physical space.
ASOS is apparently currently scouting for a unit of between 4,000 and 8,000 sq ft in a high footfall London location. On the shortlist are the usual suspects for big-brand shopping in the capital: Oxford Street, Regent Street, Long Acre and King’s Ro...

Time Out London • 23rd June 2026

This beloved east London theatre is finally getting a new lease of life

Consider this your warning in the intermission. The lobby lights are finally flashing for The Broadway in Barking and the east London theatre is officially on track to reopen. Last week, council leaders voted unanimously to appoint artsdepot as its new operator, with the Finchley-based arts organisation planning a partial programme from 2027 before a full reopening in 2028. 
The Broadway’s sudden curtain-drop happened in January 2024, thanks to crumbling RAAC. Reinforced autoclaved aerated conc...

22nd June 2026

Harry Collett isn’t sitting pretty

At six years old, Harry Collett was standing outside a musical theatre audition with his parents, watching other children be rude to their mums. Amid all the dramatics, he quickly decided that this path wasn’t for him. But just as his dad opened the door to leave, Collett’s name was called. “You might as well give it a go,” his dad said. He went in and got the part of Small Boy in Billy Elliot at the West End’s Victoria Palace Theatre. It was the first of many worlds he wasn’t expecting to enter...

Cable Magazine • 15th June 2026

Graff’s new Foufou collection is proof that diamonds can have a sense of humour

Graff is not a house typically associated with playfulness. Founded in 1960 by Laurence Graff OBE, the London house has spent six decades operating at the very top of high jewellery, responsible for cutting some of the most significant diamonds ever certified. Among them is the 302.37 carat Graff Lesedi La Rona, the largest highest colour, highest clarity diamond the GIA has ever seen, which makes Foufou, its new stacking ring collection, something of a departure French for “just a little bit ec...