Doctor Who

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Arts Ahead 3-10 Dec

Temperatures drop, shopping stress rises, and London rolls into festive season good and proper this week. Here’s our guide to the saner side of London’s arts scene; it’s not all about carols and pantos, you know. That Hamlet starts at the Novello today, without the …

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Londonist Stays In

A rainy bank holiday really isn’t fair, is it? We feel very strongly that you should stay in for the rest of the week, in protest of nature’s unfairness. We’re sure nature will take the notice and reward our protest with better weather. That’s how …

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Londonist Stays In

April already? How did that happen? We feel the best way to avoid getting April Fooled is to stay in and watch some TV. Here are a few things you may want to take a peek at! On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 31 March Poppy …

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The Book Grocer: Valentine’s Events Preview

Congratulations – you can read! (Presumably. Unless you just look at Londonist for the pictures.) Literacy is sexy. Hyper-literacy, even sexier. Or so we at Londonist tell ourselves as we don our Coke-bottle glasses and curl up each night with a bottle of wine and …

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Londonist Stays In – Christmas Day

Merry Christmas! (Or, if you’re not so much into the whole Christmas thing, Happy Tuesday!) We hope you’re having a very lovely Christmas day. If you need a break from the family madness, here are a few things you might want to take a peek …

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The Book Grocer

Fresh this Week: If news of the impending Doctor Who hiatus is giving you palpitations, fear not – the Book Grocer brings you not one but three new books based on the popular series: Paul Magrs – Sick Building The Doctor and Martha travel to …

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Hidden Houses

They’re rehousing their residents in some pretty odd places, that lot at Wandsworth Council. In an impressive initiative called Hidden Homes, the chief bods of this creative borough are re-evaluating all their abandoned nooks and crannies, coal holes and closets to see if they can …

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The Smell of Wet Geek

A festival weekend wouldn’t be complete without the threat of rain, but while fans at Wireless in Hyde Park mostly got away dry, 500 geeks at Alexandra Palace couldn’t escape Saturday’s storm. Hack Day is a 36-hour marathon of coding, pizza, beer and music sponsored …

Lucky Soul Competition Winner

Lucky Soul play their biggest gig to date when they fill the lovely environs of Bush Hall with their appropriately sweet, melodic sound in little over a week on 16th May. Tickets for the gig are a measly £7, and can be bought online. In …

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Can’t Get You Out Of My TARDIS

Kylie is set to make her television comeback in Doctor Who: Kylie Minogue is reportedly set to return to the small screen as a cyberwoman out to snare Dr Who on the British television show’s Christmas special. The News of the World said filming would …

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Three things to do tonight

1. Ed Banger do Bugged Out @ Canvas. Dance label du jour, Ed Banger are having a massive warehouse style party in room 3 of Canvas with sets from Busy P, SebAstian, the all important Justice, and a live set from the pop da glock-ing …