Is there anything better than Time Out?

Not only Lost Rivers, but also London's best Fish and Chip Shops! What more could a sentient Londoner want?

oh right, a city limits nostalgist.

do you run flavourpill then? you seem awfully keen to plug it.

kittens
beer
the smell of freshly cut grass
the love of a good woman
Albert Finney
the Mach 3 razor

Not that keen on Albert Finney.

Don't use razors.

The smell of freshly cut grass gives me hay fever.

I agree with the fourth one though.

There's room in the market for a pauper's time out.

It's a shame Alternative London isn't still going.

Last week: RED HOOK HAS ARRIVED (ie, no need to go there anymore)

This week: Rufus Wainwright (about to cover Judy Live at Carnegie Hall, ye gods) with related (?) tease, HOW TO BE A MALE DIVA (DIVO).
Now, is there a guy in NY who's interested in that who DOESN'T know? (ie, act like Rufus Wainwright)

The new free distribution version is flimsy as fuck, which is saying something for a magazine that's been getting progressively flimsier for three or four years. I'm not sure what the point even is without listings. RIP big man.

It does feel like the beginning of the end. I've been reading it since the 80s - i.e since before internet listings.

i read the website regularly, never bought the mag in my life.

Tme Out Chicago has definitely become more influential than our town's two alt-weeklies. Having a year's subscription throu Groupon for smething like $8/year must've boosted circulation.

The thing about the mag was that you could trail around London the arts section and circle things and find yourself looking at completely unexpected things over the course of a day. It was really easy to see everything on one page. You can't do that with an app. Maybe on an iPad, but I wouldn't stand around with an iPad in the vicinity of some of London's galleries.

When the dust has settled on the print media apocalypse, one of the few things that will have survived will be TV listings magazines because they're practical and utilitarian. I gather they're leaking money like nobody's business, but Time Out removing its print listings is idiotic.

There is definitely room for more innovation in listings apps, and I never feel any of the art ones are all that comprehensive when it comes to an area. Certainly a "build an art safari between two points" would be wonderful. But many of my favourite art discovery moments have been completely random without Time Out or the art map. When Time Out slimmed down last time to reduce page numbers the shortage of up to date reviews int he listing sections felt like a hole, but I soon managed to deal with it. The ability on the website to print out, or create at least some sort of list of art, with mini-reviews intact, to basically create you own useful section of Time Out which is useful for wandering is currently missing from the website.

I am not sure (paid for) TV listings mags will survive.

still read it as its free (obv) and the film section is still quite good, but most of TO these days is so thin, both physically in terms of less pages but also just the content - its all just hyper enthusiastic london boosterism and 'funny' quotes that have to be made up by interns in the office. it used to be so much better - you felt like the writers had more to say than just smiley 'hey this is great and we are going to tell you why' over and over.

I find TO's site annoying to use, and I still feel like there is no really good, one-stop "what would be fun to do tonight/tomorrow/this week in NYC" shopping.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/29/time-out-plans-200m-stock-market-flotation

Bit amazed to see this...I used to buy it regulary back in its golden age, but never look at the free magazine or the website these days.

Disappearance of the old Time Out was the biggest single disaster in the cultural life of London, in the time I've been living here. Gave up on the shitty website some time ago so, I don't know, maybe it's fkn awesome now.