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 12TH OCTOBER – SUNDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2013

MOVE IN at the V&A’s new show – Tomorrow
The V&A has commissioned leading contemporary artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (the pair behind Texas’s Prada Marfa sculpture/store set in the middle of the desert) to create a major site-specific installation in the former Textile Galleries of the museum. Tomorrow will transform these spaces into a grand apartment inhabited by a fictional character; an elderly and disillusioned architect.

More than your typical walk-through exhibition – think of it as an entire life to delve into, complete with a detailed residence dreamed up by the duo. Visitors will be able to explore the apartment, sit on the sofa and read the inhabitant’s books and magazines, immersing themselves in the artwork. A script, written by the artists, will be available for visitors as a printed book.

If you fancy a snoop for a few hours, this is an intriguingly dark slice of Saturday afternoon escapism, inside one of London’s most beautiful buildings. If you delve into the plot of the exhibition’s story, you’ll soon realise that domestic bliss this isn’t…

V&A Museum: Tomorrow: Elmgreen & Dragset, until 2nd January 2014
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
10am – 10pm on weekends

VIOLENCE, SEX, DESIRE – business as usual for Phoebe Collings-James
If you’re looking for something equally as involved but on a smaller scale this weekend, check out The Flesh Is All You Have If You Mortify That There Is No Hope For You, the first solo exhibition at the Ritter/Zammet gallery from young British Goldsmiths’ graduate, Phoebe Collings-James.

Desire, sexuality and conflict are explored, with her use of minimalist painting and sculpture as an unsettling narrative. The human body sets the tone and mood for Collings-James’ exhibition and her continued concern with racial and gender-based inadequacies.

Ritter/Zammet Gallery Phoebe Collings-James: You Have If You Mortify That There Is No Hope For You, until November 23rd 2013
Unit 8, 80A Ashfield Street, London, E1 2BJ

SCARLETT JOHANSSON – an alien life-force in human form. In a transit van. In Scotland.
Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin will be one of the many films premiering at BFI London Film Festival (see below). It features Scarlett Johansson, or rather an alien life-form in her image, running about the streets of Glasgow, being generally terrifying. The film is tipped as providing an unnervingly brilliant adaptation of Michel Faber’s 2000 Sci-Fi novel. Doing intergalactic horror in Glasgow gets a thumbs up.

Under The Skin
Watch exclusively at Odeon West End on Sunday, or Monday if it’s busy

BFI Film Festival

The 57th BFI London Film Festival has reared up again since Wednesday October 9, bringing with it screenings of the most-anticipated and debated films from Summer’s big international film festivals – many of them months ahead of their release dates.

BFI London Film Festival 9th – 20th October 2013
Check 2013 Schedule online for info

DEFINITIONS OF: imbiber. 1. n a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess). Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper.
Those clever sods at the BFI seem to have planned the opening of their film festival at the same time as the London Cocktail Week. They must be a thirsty bunch. We could tell you about the tasting masterclasses or snazzy pop-up bars, but most importantly take note of an insider tip for all intrepid imbibers… there is a wristband offer!

It’s not as all-inclusive as a Benidorm resort, but it does mean participating adult beverage suppliers, especially in the Seven Dials area or on Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, will be offering £4 cocktails. Yes, £4. All weekend.

London Cocktail Week 7th – 13th October
See website for participating bars. Wristbands here

COMFORT EATING Yes it’s that time of year already
Regular Weekend Combo readers will notice we like to include a new feeding hole each week, from a posh pop-ups to a market burger vans. This week you can sample the Far Eastern wonders of Tonkotsu Soho – in their new gaff just off of Kingsland Road (trendy). It’s in an arch that used to house a mechanic’s yard, right beside Haggerston station.

They’ll be serving up the same ramen, karaage and gyoza that is such a winner in Soho, as well as Japanese octopus pancakes too. The Ramen recipies are changing all the time, but  currently it’s Tsukemen dipping ramen with grilled, wobbly slices of pork.

Tonkotsu East, weekdays, 12–3, 5–10:30pm. Weekends, 12–10pm
Arch 334, 1a Dunston Street, London E8 4EB