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RITES OF PRIVACY New End Theatre By EMMA KLEIN A particularly affecting moment in David Rhodes’ compelling one-man show, Rites of Privacy,...
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THE THREE STIGMATA OF PACMAN Old Red Lion Theatre By SARAH RAINEY When he walks on stage carrying a flip-top bin with “time capsule”...
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• Of the shows I have seen this week as part of the London International Mime Festival, the award for the most bizarre and mesmerising goes to...
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ALMEIDA, Almeida Street, N1, 020 7359 4404. Rope, Mon-Sat 7.30; Sat Mat 3pm; £8-£32. Until Feb 6. Review in last week’s issue....
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Clare Latimer attempts to lift the January gloom with some cheap and tasty comfort food to create an uplifting supper This has been a trying time,...
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Matthew Lewin finds an old favourite offering hearty, fresh variations on gastropub (and gastropod) dishes that keep pulling in the punters It’...
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THE women would arrive in batches, like the supplies of feed for livestock or winter fuel. And when they had disembarked, they’d be placed in a... -
TOM and Jerry may appear to have little in common with the Italian Futurist movement that exploded on to the art scene at the end of the 19th... -
IT'S been the coldest snap for 30 years. But while we struggle to keep warm indoors, just imagine the effect on plants and gardens. This big freeze... -
IMAGES of contemporary north London are among the artworks in this year’s exhibition of contemporary British painters, sculptors and... -
THEY may have been works in progress, or simply experiments before she launched into bigger pieces for public consumption, but the studio sculptures...
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WHILE many think the conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East can never be resolved, there is hope for the future, according to the Jewish... -
WHEN I was growing up, I thought Kilburn was the capital of Ireland,” says Frank McGuinness, the prolific dramatist best known for his award-... -
NOW the new Year has arrived, I suppose we should all think about our resolutions. I am going to try harder and carry out my beliefs. I think we...
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IF we believe the mass media, the only path to success in today’s world is to beat down all competition, especially in the realm of...
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TARIQ Ali, the famous firebrand left-wing protester of the 1960s, is coming to Burgh House in Hampstead next week. He still has strong opinions, as... -
IT seems incredible today that anyone should care about the country of origin of our footballing heroes in the Premiership. The absence this week of...
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START reading Quentin Letts’ love/hate letter to our sovereign land with patience. Think of Miss Marple unravelling her wool and at the...
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HIGHGATE prize-winning harpsichord player Laura Tivendale is off to Moscow early next month to compete in the first Volkonsky Competition being held...
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MULTI-talented jazz musician Jason Yarde will be demonstrating why he is such a key mover and shaker in today’s jazz scene at a concert next...
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TREATS galore are being laid on for Early Music buffs over the coming week. At Burgh House on Sunday afternoon, there’s music from Paris for...
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FRIDAY JANUARY 15 Jack Honeyborne with Paul Jayasinha & Kelvin Christiane, Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus, W1, 020 8647 2114, 12.30pm, £5/...
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EVERY year the Camden Crawl is so packed with bands and singers that we hardly have time to pay attention to the daytime programme. So this year we...
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IN a world not exactly starved of winsome young folky singer-songwriters, Alessi’s Ark stand out from the earnest hordes of plaintive strummers...
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FOR the first time in as long as I can remember, I missed Christmas Top of The Pops. For so many years it was the afternoon highlight for me and my...
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THERE is a demographic of film-goers who like movies with tough guy Cockneys running through a lexicon of ridiculous slang in gruff voices. And at... -
HOLLYWOOD studios can appear like sandwich-board men, strolling around telling us the end of the world is nigh. But despite the huge number out there... -
GEORGE Clooney takes the lead in this rom-com as the jet-setting heartless business executive who criss-crosses the States working as a “...
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GEORGE Clooney takes the lead in this rom-com as the jet-setting heartless business executive who criss-crosses the States working as a “...
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MY attention has been drawn towards a new Japanese film out this week called Still Walking. Written, directed and edited by Hirokazu Kore-Eda, it is...
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IMAGINE making eight series of Two Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, quite possibly the worst sitcom of the last decade. And for all that...
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HOLLYWOOD is full of beautiful, unattainable women, but Greta Garbo was particularly so. The actress’s most famous line, “I want to...
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SPOOKY, startling and more than a little bit fruity – is there a stranger show on in London this week? The night began with a plea from theatre...
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HIGH society can be frightfully dull without a little murder. In Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 thriller, aristocratic ennui reaches its cold-...
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IS it farewell to the Hackney Empire? The rose-red Edwardian playhouse will operate a vastly reduced programme this year so it can undergo a “...
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ALMEIDA, Almeida Street, N1, 020 7359 4404. Rope, Mon-Sat 7.30; Sat Mat 3pm; £8-£32. Until Feb 6. ARCOLA THEATRE, Arcola Street, E8, 020...
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Friday, January 15 CLUB NME – Lowline + Mikey Four (DJ), Ed Wilder (DJ), Brainlove Records (DJ), Koko, (Morningston Crescent tube), 9.30pm,...
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THE night that we visited the Chinese Cricket Club, London was experiencing its first flurry of festive snow for 2009. The city looked a picture,...
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THE changing face of Whitechapel over the past 100 years is the subject of a performance by playwright and poet Bernard Kops. The writer, who lives...
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HE'S the mystery postman whose book, which is highly critical of the privatisation Royal Mail, is expected to be one of the runaway best-sellers of...
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