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Preview: Peckham Literary Festival 2011

A week of fantastic free bookish events.

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London Food & Drink News: 19 May 2011

We’re all over town this week (and next) with our coverage of London food and drink news.

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Last Minute Listing: Storytelling @ Persepolis

Peckham’s silliest yellow cornershop is tonight hosting a FREE storytelling/sharing event, featuring the lovely Sally Pomme Clayton. She will be spinning tales of Spring drawn from ancient Mesopotamian legends…and then asking the audience to share their favourite stories/anecdotes/riddles. This is followed tomorrow night with a …

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Preview: The Peckham Literary Festival 16th – 21st November

We like FREE STUFF, and so it’s kind of a pleasure to preview the third annual PLF. Because it consists of a whole week of free events. In Peckham. As in previous years, most of the action is at Review bookshop and Persepolis, our favourite …

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Free Tonight?

Peckham Literary Festival continues and tonight champions the aural tradition with a magical night of tall tales in the area’s most eminent emporium. Hosted by our very own authoress and local legend, Sally Butcher, delight in storytelling from local poet Inua and Sally Pomme Clayton …

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Free Tonight, Take 2

Free tonight in every sense of the word. There is still room available at a free story-telling event this evening at Persepolis in Peckham. The deeply and importantly talented Sally Pomme Clayton will be recounting tales of love and romance from her huge repertoire. Audience …

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Saturday Cinema Summary

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… This week, London tube comedy Three and Out, the erotic thriller that is a Deception and Russell Brand tries to take America in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It’s baffling that as a nation we’re so …

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London On The Cheap

Rain, rain, go away…flirtatious spring-like temperatures and halcyon moments of direct sunlight belie this week’s forecast for April showers. At least that leaves plenty of time to soak up indoor activities on the cheap before we jet our wellies and get on with the picnic …

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Nominate London’s Hidden Gems

We like independent traders, specially those that are a bit different or even odd. Small set-ups doing interesting things with one eye on their ethics, the other on their speciality, the other one their customers in the style of a benevolent, entrepreneuring tri-clops. Well, our …