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Where To Get Free Entertainment In London

View Larger Map We first unleashed our London-for-free map about a year ago, back when Robert Peston was still perfecting his hand gestures and we all had money to burn. With the economy plummeting like a calcified lemming, it seems a good time to wheel …

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Art Of The Poster: There’s More

Not only is this unique exhibition now on at the London Transport Museum, their programme of events gets going tonight with a curator’s talk on “The art gallery of the street: pictorial posters at the turn of the 20th century”. Looking wider than the London …

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Book Now: London Festival of Architecture

It’s still three weeks away, but you’d better book now for some of the more popular-sounding happenings at this year’s London Festival of Architecture. From 20 June to 20 July over 600 events will celebrate the capital’s buildings. Here’s our pick of one-off events. We’ll …

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Is Martin Amis a Blogophobe?

Blogophobia: an irrational fear, intolerance of, or aversion to the blogosphere. Martin Amis has been accused of far worse, but after hearing him talk at RADA yesterday evening, this was the only accusation we felt it safe to lodge against him. The offending remark came …

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Why Don’t Creationists Just Shut Up?

That’s one of the relaxing conversation pieces to be found at a ‘Skeptics in the pub’ meetup. Tonight’s guest speaker is Dr Matthew Smith from Liverpool Hope University, who will talk about fate, the meaning of life and mid-life crises. We caught up with co-organiser …

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Preview: Sylvia Plath Revisited

Tell your friends that you’re attending a talk on Sylvia Plath – In London. As winter approaches. – and they’re apt to shoot you a funny look and start silently monitoring your behaviour for signs of mental distress. Such is Plath’s difficult legacy. Although her …