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Buckingham Palace Summer Opening

Critics' choice Museums & Attractions Until Fri Oct 1, Buckingham Palace

The visitor route includes a 450-metre walk along the west side of the palace garden, which offers views of the garden, palace and nineteenth-century lake.

In Case We Don't Die

FREE Art Until Fri Aug 27, Vegas Gallery

Work by 12 contemporary artists from Berlin, London and Copenhagen including Ida Kvetny, Shane Bradford and John Strutton.

Thursday Night Takeover: Light, Market, Sound

FREE Around Town Thu Jul 29, Brixton Village

An evening of vintage film with live musical accompaniment, animated window displays and performance installations in Brixton Village Market.

What's on this week

Reggie Watts - Why $#!+ So Crazy?

ComedyCritics' choice Until Sat Jul 31, Bloomsbury Theatre

One man. One loop machine. A non-human vocal range and the ability to channel a wide range of vocal characters. There's no one out there...

Underage Festival: M.I.A + Tinchy Stryder + more

MusicRecommended Sun Aug 1, Victoria Park

Attention callow youth! It's time to start making empty promises about achieving good GCSE grades/helping around the house/not getting...

Tiesto + Pendulum

MusicCritics' choice Fri Jul 30, Victoria Park

Mighty trance don Tiësto's now so big that instead of putting on gigs, he puts on mini-fests. Here he follows up last year's event for...

Bolshoi Ballet

DanceCritics' choice Until Sun Aug 8, Royal Opera House

Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet returns to London with some of the exuberant virtuoso ballets they're famous for, including 'Spartacus', 'Don...

Field Day: Phoenix + The Fall + Caribou + more

MusicRecommended Sat Jul 31, Victoria Park

Broader in scope than its excitable (younger) sister festival, Underage, Field Day offers a grand opportunity to see many of the world's...

The Railway Children

TheatreCritics' choice Until Jan 2 2011, Waterloo Station Theatre

Forty years on from the film (and over a century since the novel), Mike Kenny has penned a new stage adaptation of E Nesbitt's tale of...