We bring you our guide to living well in the world’s capitals, from exhibitions to cinema, food, drink, fashion, music and beyond. Just call it culture and take it, it’s yours.

LONDON, SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST – MONDAY 26TH AUGUST 2013

JOURNEY FROM CLUB TO CATWALK, with the best of 80s London at the V&A
What makes London fashion so thrilling? It was – and is – all about going out, entwined in clubs and personalities. The 80s set a liberating blueprint, with clubs such as Taboo, Blitz and the dawn of the New Romantics. Movements came direct from the dancefloor. Celebrating the symbiotic relationship between clubbing and style to create Fashion (capital ‘F’), the show features 85 looks from Vivienne Westwood and Leigh Bowery through to Katherine Hamnett and John Galliano.
Daily from 10:00-17.45 (until 22:00 Fridays) until 16th February 2014, £6, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL

GO KING SIZE and buy the long-awaited debut LP from Archy Marshall
King Krule’s album Six Feet Beneath The Moon, a don’t-pigeonhole conflation of guitar, blues, beats and dub drops on the singer’s 19th birthday, featuring Out Getting Ribs (first released under the name Zoo Kid) and recent teasers Easy Easy and Neptune Estate. Not bad taste in shirts, too. Feed your stereo the real deal.
Out Saturday 24th August, LP/CD/iTunes. Support your local independent record shop

WATCH HOLLYWOOD MAINSTREAM PORN in the new Linda Lovelace biopic, Lovelace
Amanda Seyfried stars as the woman with a hungry throat in a story of drugs and heartache. James Franco plays Hugh Hefner and, brilliantly, Seth from The OC (Adam Brody) is pornstar Harry Reems.
Three showings daily, tickets from £8; The Hackney Picture House, 270 Mare Street, London E8 1HE

BURGER ME at The Advisory
The latest patty contender aiming for our heaving arteries? Enter The Advisory, set in a former Asian Women’s Advisory Centre. Good decor and best burgers in East, they say. Judge for yourself.
161 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

GET INAPPROPRIATE at The Book of Mormon
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring their Broadway hit musical to London. They’re good with a tune – Team America: World Police‘s America! Fuck Yeah! is an earworm that’s been with us since 2004, still wailed under our breath on packed tube trains.
Until 8th February 2014, up to £152 for premier seats, The Prince of Wales Theatre, Coventry Street, London W1D 6AS

DICE WITH ZOMBIES IN THE 1940s at The Vaults
This theatre sensory game – basically a living play in which you’re part – takes no prisoners, said to be the best out there. Who wouldn’t want to risk heart attack as zombies scare the living hell out of you and you live out all those botched stage school dreams?
All-day Sunday 25th August, £65, The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN

DRESS YOUR DOG UP at Battersea Dog and Cat Shelter’s Paw Pageant fundraiser
It’s bank holiday Monday. You’re hungover. And anyway, your dog loves it…
Monday 26th August, 13:00-15:30, £13 to take part, Old Spitalfields Market, 16 Horner Square, Spitalfields, London, E1 6EW

NO DOG? NO BOTHER, BANK HOLIDAY MOVIE BINGE INSTEAD:
Jurassic Park at the 3D IMAX
The classic remastered and in. Your. Face.
Monday 26th August, 12:00 and 15:00, from £12:00, 1 Charlie Chaplin Walk, South Bank, Waterloo, London, SE1 8X

Then go home and rent:
Classic – Gone with the Wind
One of the greatest epic love stories set during the American Civil War. Came out in 1939, won eight Oscars including best actress, director and picture. At 3hr 40min this famously included an interval.

Action – The Fast and Furious
Fast cars and babes. The original.

Art/Foreign – The Seventh Seal
Includes one of the most referenced images in world cinema when Death plays a game of chess with a knight.

Independent – The Paper Boy
Directed by Lee Daniels who is currently making waves at the US box office with The Butler. Nicole Kidman is the penpal lover of an inmate on death row. She fakes an orgasm in front of everyone in prison and pisses on Zac Efron. Also features Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and Macy Gray.

Comedy – Priceless
Audrey Tautou plays a professional gold digger looking to secure the man (*cough* money) of her dreams. Much funnier than the simple premise sounds.