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Cosi Fan Tutte, Upstairs at The Gatehouse, Highgate

A bitter battle of the sexes sounds as sweet as chocolate rations in Hampstead Garden Opera’s 1940s update of Mozart’s classic.

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Circusfest Review: Backgammon for Beginners @ Jacksons Lane

The hard-to-grab-hold-of tale is told through low key but impressive acrobatics

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Campaign To Save Highgate Orchard

Important wildlife habitat under threat from development of St Joseph’s church.

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Weekend Round-Up

Our pick of the weekend’s other news stories.

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Walk London: The Capital Ring

An abandoned railway, a forgotten river, and one of London’s most atmospheric cemeteries…

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Photo Of The Day: Caption Required #64

Put words in the mouths of these Highgate folk.

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Highgate House Recreated In India

A Victorian-era house from Highgate has been recreated, brick by brick, on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

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Last Minute Listing: Bigger Boat Film Quiz Fifth Birthday

Our old friends at the Boogaloo film quiz celebrate half a decade of movie-based facting tonight. The ‘You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat‘ quiz is an all-singing, all-dancing, part-exploding, often stirring car chase of an event, with multimedia questions drawn from a century of movies. …

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Whittington Hospital A&E Saved

For anyone with a postcode beginning with ‘N’, it’s been one of the most visible public campaigns in recent memory. The battle to save the A&E department and maternity facilities of the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill has been won. Health Secretary Andy Burnham today …

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Preview: Brighter Later @ The Boogaloo

Brighter Later launches its new series of gigs for charity on Thursday at Highgate’s Boogaloo; yes that one where Kate Moss and Pete Doherty used to hang out. That aside, it’s a smashing boozer replete with 1960s photo booth for when you get drunk and …

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Christmas Tree Cost Doesn’t Stand Up To Scrutiny

Photo / HowAboutNo! Highgate-dwellers are aghast that Haringey council contrived to blow £1,500 on a Christmas tree in their ‘burb that fell over at the first sight of a breeze. Despite costing a mere £150 to purchase, erecting the tree necessitated a further expenditure of …