Peter Pan

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The Book Grocer

There are just too many good events around town this week for us to narrow our picks for certain nights. Thus we present you with multiple options and leave that difficult choice to you. In the meantime, we’ll be brushing up on our science fiction …

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Fairy Dust Not Included

Call us starry-eyed saps, but when we learned today that J.M. Barrie’s former home is up for sale, we couldn’t help that we were filled with whimsical visions of left-behind shadows, fanciful fantasies of flights to Neverland, and an urge to occupy the place immediately. …

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Review: Rockabaret

It’s not every night you get to hang out with Tinkerbell, Snow White and Red Riding Hood. But then, Rockaberet isn’t your usual night out (where would be the fun in that?). We’ve told you a bit about it before, but we decided that as …

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Sporting Weekend: NBA Madness @ the O2 Arena

As the more hoop-savvy amongst you will know the NBA has beaten the NFL to London by just over a fortnight as the Boston Celtics are scheduled to face the Minnesota Timberwolves in an already sold out pre-season game at the O2 Arena on October …

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Children’s Sequels We’d Like To See

Geraldine McCaughrean’s sequel to Peter Pan looks set to hit the big screen. Has anyone managed to pull off a decent Peter Pan on film yet? Not to worry – sequels never ever suck. With that in mind here are five pitches that we’d like …

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Bit of an eco two pronger this one – first up is the news that while big companies are encouraged to do all they can to recycle, smaller firms are being sidelined: The London Assembly’s environment committee has published a report claiming smaller businesses are …

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Storm in a furry teacup

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts’ Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at “porn” take on Peter Pan’s Wendy / Alan Moore’s erotic Lost Girls / …

Hoff off the Hook

Sad sad news: Due to his commitment to the upcoming Simon Cowell series “America’s Got Talent,” “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff will no longer be playing Captain Hook in a London holiday pantomime of Peter Pan. Say it ain’t so. We were seriously considering going along …

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The Hoff To Play Hook

David Hasselhoff in Wimbledon, dressed as a pirate. That sentence isn’t the product of some surreal, word asociation exercise. It’s fact. David Hasselfhoff is coming to town and he’ll be dressed like a pirate. And standing next to him will be Bobby Davro. The Baywatch …

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Peter Pan is back. Captain Hook couldn’t kill him, Robin Williams had a damn good try while Jeremy Sumpter’s attempt was mostly ignored, but now children’s’ author Geraldine McCaughrean has breathed some fresh life into Michael Jackson’s inspiration for messing around in kids’ bedrooms. The …

I Say Old Chap, What A Handy Guidebook.

Ahh, the good old days of the gentlemen spy: bowler hats, poison-tipped umbrellas, cigarette cases and, best of all, no David Shayler. What’s made us all misty-eyes for the golden years of espionage? The discovery of a KGB ‘spy’s guide to London’ in the latest …