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  • Kylie

    After recovering from the breast cancer diagnosed in 2005, Ms Minogue is well and truly back, playing from her latest (tenth!) hits-packed album

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  • Teddy Bears' Picnic on Hampstead Heath

    FREE

    Until Fri Aug 29, Preacher's Hill

    Children can take along their favourite teddy, doll or soft toy to enjoy storytelling, songs and poetry at the Keats House teddy bears' picnic.

  • V&A Village Fête

    Critics' Choice

    Until Sat Jul 26, V&A

    The John Madejski garden hosts live music, stalls run by contemporary artists and designers and a tombola with prizes you might actually want

Today

  • Museum in Docklands Fifth Birthday Celebrations

    FREE

    Critics' Choice

    Museums & Attractions

    Until Sun Jul 27, Museum in Docklands

    An extensive programme of events is planned to celebrate the museum's fifth anniversary, and there's free entry all weekend. Highlights include costumed...

  • Go!Zilla’s Third Birthday

    Critics' Choice

    Clubs

    Sat Jul 26, Cargo

    Go!Zilla continue their riotious Cargo residency as they turn three tonight so expect all the usual shenanigans with live acts a-plenty. Tonight Andy Meecham...

  • Oscar Muñoz

    Last Chance!

    Critics' Choice

    Art

    Until Sat Jul 26, Rivington Place

    In a projection, the portraits (copied from newspaper obituaries) contemporary Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz paints with water on to a hot pavement evaporate...

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This week

  • Ben and Jerry's Summer Sundae

    Jul 26-27, Clapham Common

    Ice cream-sponsored festival, with freebies ahoy and live music from The Charlatans, Ash, Guillemots, The Lemonheads, Delays and many more

  • Hadrian: Empire and Conflict

    New

    Critics' Choice

    Museums & Attractions

    Until Sun Oct 26, British Museum

    The life of Roman Emperor Hadrian (177-138AD) explored through artefacts relating to his life and his legacy, including Hadrian's Wall and the Pantheon in Rome

  • Love

    New

    Art

    Until Sun Oct 5, National Gallery

    Five hundred years of art on the subject, with work by Raphael, Cranach, Vermeer, Chagall, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn and others.

  • Dr Who Proms Spectacular

    Classical

    Sun Jul 27, Royal Albert Hall

    A celebration of the music of 'Dr Who' and classical works with a time and space theme, plus a specially filmed scene and live Daleks

  • Stella Artois: Star Over London

    Around Town

    Until Wed Aug 20, Damyns Hall Aerodrome

    Flying at approximately 300 metres and at around 30mph the Zeppelin NT helium-filled airship offers a new perspective on the city

  • Monkey: Journey to the West

    Classical

    Until Sat Jul 26, Royal Opera House

    First performed in the UK at the Manchester International Festival in 2007, this colourful opera, based on the ancient Chinese legend of spiritual...

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London Through A Moving Lens: Part 8

Five fantastic films of London from You Tube. 1 Crystal Palace burns down. 2 A day at Billingsgate fish market. 3 The interval of Eurovision 1977 at the Talk of the Town off Drury...
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  • Great London walks

    The quickest way to get from A to B in our great city? The tube. But the fastest way to fall in love with it? On foot. Download itineraries for seven cultural and historical London walking tours

  • 100 things to do in London this summer

    Here comes the sun? Well, maybe. But in terms of arts and entertainment, it's set to be a glorious summer. Here are our critics' picks

  • Alfresco London

    From bars and BBQs to Banksy and the Bard, here's our guide to the best places in London for open-air events, entertainment and eating

  • London's top 50 restaurants

    Time Out's legendary covert food critics present the definitive guide to the capital's 50 best eateries

  • London's top 50 bars and pubs

    From louche cocktail lounges to swanky hotel bars, secret speakeasies to earthy real ale pubs there's a capital watering hole for you

  • Things to do in London for under a tenner

    Credit crunch or no, there's no doubt London can be on the pricey side, but with a bit of imagination and our suggestions for capital things to do for next to nothing, you'll never be stumped if...

  • London's 100 best shops

    Whether you’re on the hunt for high fashion or high tea, first-edition treasures or second-hand trinkets, virtuous eco-wares or scandalous underwear, this is your starting point: the definitive...

  • London festivals 2008

    Instead of festivals that recreate the problems of the city (overcrowding, crime, noise...

  • Music festivals 2008

    There are still plenty of al fresco extravaganzas after Glastonbury – including Download,...

  • 101 things to do before you leave London

    Have a right old cockney knees-up... and 100 other unmissable experiences. From gastronomic...

  • Free London

    Freebie food, gratis gigs, cost-free culture and nights out for nowt - Time Out delivers a...

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