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By Franco Milazzo

Music Review: XFM’s Best New Bands 2011 @ The Borderline

Last night, the Borderline hosted XFM's Best New Bands of 2011. But who came out on top?
By Lindsey

London On The Cheap: 10-16 February

Bargain comics, behind the scenes at Bishopsgate, headlessness and LSE Lit Fest: all cheap this week.
By johnmcga

Live Music Review: The Go! Team @ Heaven

Two drum kits, a bonkers front woman and indecipherable lyrics. The Go! Team are back.
By Ben O' Norum

Hendrick's Refined Courtship Clinic @ Covent Garden

Valentine's Day is around the corner, but dating can be tricky. If you're confused by conversation, bemused by body language or flummoxed by fans, the Hendrick's Refined Courtship Clinic is here to help...
By Londonist

Live Music Review: Panic! At The Disco @ Bush Hall

Perfect pop songs played with delicious enthusiasm...
By Lindsey

Book Review: The Canal by Lee Rourke

A novel about boredom involving an intensive study of the stretch of canal linking Hackney and Islington.

By caroliner

Preview: YARN Fest 2011

YARN Fest, the acclaimed East London storytelling festival, is back for a second year of literary madness and interactive fun.
By Johnny Fox

Theatre Review: Company @ Southwark Playhouse

Updated with iPhones and MacBooks this Sondheim revival brings some fresh perspectives.

By JenT

Dance Review: Resolution! 7 February 2011

A triplet of trios have mixed success at The Place.

By Franco Milazzo

Juggler Interview: Mat Ricardo

"I have always said that I’d only go on Britain’s Got Talent if my act could involve a bomb belt." Ahead of his one-man show next month, we spoke to juggler extraordinaire Mat Ricardo about busking, Britain's Got Talent and Italian mama-sans.
By Rachel Holdsworth

Book Grocer: 9-15 February

The week ahead in literary London: Blake Morrison, Firestation Book Swap on tour, John Hegley, Jackie Kay, English PEN's anniversary and as much romantic poetry as you can stomach.
By Franco Milazzo

Music Review: Chilly Gonzales @ The Borderline

Is Chilly Gonzales the Next Big Thing? This eccentric rapper-turned-pianist may well just be...
By SallyB2

Art Review: Immured in Hessian, Glen Baxter

An exhibition of new Glen Baxter pictures opened at the Flowers Gallery last night.
By Zoe Craig

Arts Ahead: What's On In London 8–14 February

Flamenco, photography and fornicating animals. That's what's coming up this week on London's cultural calendar
By Marv

Live Music Preview: Yuck @ Bush Hall

Fast-rising grunge revivalists Yuck play Bush Hall on 18 February.

By Amanda

Music Choice: 7–13 February

The best gigs around town in early-middle February.
By tikichris

Exhibition Review: Lyndon Hayes @ The Zetter Hotel

The banality of daily life in eight new works by South London painter/illustrator Lyndon Hayes.
By Franco Milazzo

Live Music Review: Gaggle @ The Borderline

The alt-girl choir headlined the Borderline on Saturday as part of the HMV Next Big Thing 2011 series of gigs.
By Zoe Craig

Love Never Dies leads Laurence Olivier Award Nominations

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom sequel receives seven nominations for the Laurence Olivier theatre awards.
By Victoria Rudland

Theatre Preview: Beachy Head @ Jackson's Lane

The 2009 Edinburgh hit from award-winning theatre company, Analogue, promises to be original, exciting and visually stunning.
By Londonist

Classical Music Comedy Review: Hans Liberg @ Cadogan Hall

Meet the self-styled ‘godfather of comedy and music’.
By M@

Harry Beck And The London Tube Map @ Church Farmhouse Museum

A last, wonderful hurrah from a tiny local museum, forced to close by Barnet Council.
By Franco Milazzo

Comedy Review: Punt and Dennis @ Richmond Theatre

Punt and Dennis's latest tour is taking them around the country. We were on hand to see their only London date at Richmond Theatre.
By Lindsey

Opera Preview: Anna Nicole @ Royal Opera House

Extreme language, sex, drugs and death in a brand new contemporary opera for Covent Garden