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Time Out
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
When will Covent Garden's Wimbledon screens return for 2025?
It's almost that time again. In just a few weeks, we will be sipping a Pimm's and munching on strawberries as we watch world-class athletes frolic about in white as they thwack balls at each other as hard as they can. We're of course talking about Wimbledon. And if you didn't get tickets to the championships, no worries, because massive screens will be returning to Covent Garden this summer showing all of the tennis action. Wimbledon will be screened live in the central London piazza as part of Covent Garden's Summer on the Big Screen programme. From Monday, June 30 to Sunday, July 13 matches will be streamed from Wimbledon's Centre Court and beyond into the piazza. It's completely free to attend, just pitch up and grab one of the deckchairs that will be set up in the square. They will also have everything on hand to make the screening a proper occasion, serving Pimm's, strawberries and cream, artisan hot dogs, pick 'n' mix, ice cream and Godfrey's strawberries and cream flavoured popcorn. So, you won't have to make the pilgrimage all the way to Henman Hill to catch the tennis this summer (and there won't be any risk of having balls flying at your face, so it's a win-win). And if you can't make it to Covent Garden, there are all sorts of screenings and viewings taking place across the city. Here's our guide to all the Wimbledon screenings in London.
Axios
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Richmond named one of the world's top queer-friendly destinations
Richmond is one of the world's most queer-friendly destinations, per a travel guide released last month. Why it matters: Our underdog of a city is placed in the same league as Brooklyn, Milan and London. The big picture: " The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide," a hardcover book from Lonely Planet, gives Richmond a seven-page feature that includes where people should go when they visit. The recommendations come from local Paige Poprocky, who you may recognize as one of the faces of The Richmond Experience. "I feel like queerness has always been in Richmond's DNA. Richmond is so vibrant, very artsy, and diverse," Poprocky writes. "Frankly, it's weird here. It's weird! And we like it that way." Some of her recommendations: 💃🏻 Start your day with drag brunch at Godfrey's. 🍇 Hit the Saturday farmers markets. 🛍️ Check out queer-owned shops in Carytown like Mongrel or shop at Diversity Thrift. 🚶🏻♀️ Walk over the T. Pott Bridge. 🍆 Dinner at phallic-filled L'Opossum, where the queer chef and owner was a James Beard nominee — and which Axios Richmond readers voted as the " best special occasion restaurant" in the city. 🪩 Go dancing at Babe's, one of the last remaining lesbian bars in the country.
