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Free Tonight?

Howzabout a club night just for entomologists? There’ll be crawling and flying things galore at SHUNT tonight and for the next week, as the gaff has been colonised by a bunch of wannabe bugs known as SDNA. An audio-video collective, they aim to project insects …

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By lokulin Beautiful Bush Hall presents reasonably big name comedy tonight: Andrew Maxwell, that Jo Caulfield off Radio 4, spooky magician comedy trickster Pete Firman and MC Phil Kay, not to be mistaken for Phoenix Nights’ Peter Kay. Tickets are £14 for a full night …

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You could stay in, watching a tireless parade of grinagogs and jackaninnys pratfall their way through another Comic Relief, or you could go out and do something Londony instead. For the third Friday in a row we commend the London Transport Museum. Tonight is yet …

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Free Tonight?…Part 2

“Hmm, moon landings next, I think.” David Boyle is ‘open minded about the existence of fairies’. He’s made a lifelong study of the wee fellows and tonight presents a talk entitled ‘Fairy Superstition: Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the little people and other visitors’. Fans of evidence …

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Free Tonight?

“Hmm, How do you spell Coriolan?” The Southbank Sinfonia tonight play a free concert in St John’s Waterloo from 6pm (that’s the church on the IMAX roundabout – the one in the background in this pic). The orchestra will tackle Beethoven’s stirring ‘Eroica’ Symphony – …

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Ian Muttoo Like the Metro, the British Library’s red brick building on Euston Road is unbelievably 10 years old. But it was designed to last at least 150 years – that’s a hell of a job of future proofing the national home of the printed …

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Free Tonight? Part Deux

Here’s an event so out there that we had to go out there and check we’d read the fliers right. An all day Japanese noodle bar with soul music selling hooded pants (of the knicker variety). Which converts into an ethnic hip-hop rap bonanza courtesy …

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There’s a whole section of the London Transport Museum dedicated to how the development of the tube lines contributed to the explosion of suburbia in the early 20th century and how Tube poster art became a way of selling the suburbs to commuters as plum …

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I know we encouraged transport geekery last week but this week it’s transport interpreted through the medium of experimental theatre and body percussion. Bridewell Theatre Company are debuting a new work “Drive, Ride, Walk” which probably pretty much sums it up although we’ve no clue …

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Slaminsky in Londonist’s Flickr pool. If you’ve always wanted to visit the Museum of Childhood but lack a child (or a child’s hood), tonight’s the night for you. First Thursdays at the Bethnal Green-based museum mean adults-only. From six till nine you can wander around …

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Free Tonight?

Image by Cédric V Six reasons to giggle tonight at The George (213 Strand, near where it presses palms with Fleet Street). The comedy night sees the combined talents of Trevor Lock (the small-faced plaything of Russell Brand AND Lee and Herring), Martin Davis (a …