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Gido Schimanski as Cosmo Constantine, Beverley Klein as Mrs Sally Adams

Last Chance To See: Call Me Madam @ The Gatehouse

Gido Schimanski as Cosmo Constantine, Beverley Klein as Mrs Sally Adams There’s a rash of American musical revivals in London at the moment, many of the best helmed by director Thom Southerland. This one’s sandwiched between a punchy Mack and Mabel in Catford and a …

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Last Minute Listing: Movie Quiz In Highgate

Film fans, make like Dick Whittington and get yourselves up Highgate Hill this evening for the capital’s slickest pub quiz. You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat celebrates its fourth anniversary tonight at the Boogaloo bar on Archway Road. The multi-media fun starts at 8.30pm, but …

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Free Tonight?

Want to make money while you drink? Those folk up at the Boogaloo in Highgate have come up with a clever scheme to get you spending your pennies by actually giving you some of theirs. Tonight is the launch of ‘Recession’, a club in a …

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The Saturday Strangeness

75. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Five After a recent visit to the village of Highgate I’d like to share with you some of the area’s lesser known ghosts, as previous episodes of The Saturday Strangeness have covered the phantom chicken of Pond Square and …

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The Saturday Strangeness

66(6)! The Coventry Street Vampire It is a case obscure, hardly spoken of. Whilst the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street. In 1922 a giant …

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Sunday Lunch: The Flask

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Flask 77 Highgate West Hill, N6 6BU Nearest Tube: Highgate 020 8348 7346 11am-11pm (Monday-Saturday); 12pm-10.30pm (Sunday) Expect to Pay: Typically, £8-10 for a main course Rating: 7.5 out of …

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Bigger Boat Film Quiz Tonight

Although the London-centric questions of tomorrow’s Ultimate London Pub Quiz are bound to be fun and jolly (after all, the first round is set by members of the Londonist team), film trivia may be more your kind of thing. So, to offer you the fullest …

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Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 31st March 1990: Violence erupts as hundreds of thousands of anti-poll-tax protesters take to the streets in the West End. An estimated £400,000 of damage is caused to property as cars are overturned and set alight. Hundreds of …

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Haringey A Hotspot For Burglaries

Bad news for Haringey residents: a crime survey this week revealed that three of London’s four worst burglary hotspots are in the borough. Figures for 2007 show that, despite a borough-wide reduction in crime, parts of Haringey are ridden by burglary. Tottenham Green, St Ann’s …