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  • Compagnie Beau Geste

    FREE

    Until Sun Oct 19, Parsons Green

    'Transports Exceptionnels', ie that piece where a man dances with a 13-tonne digger, is back after its success on the South Bank last year

  • The Word

    Books & Poetry

    Sun Oct 12, Polka Theatre

    This day is a chance for kids to take part in painting and writing workshops and hear authors, illustrators and poets read and talk about their work

  • The Intelligent Finance Comedy Award Season 2008

    Critics' Choice

    Comedy

    Sun Oct 12, Apollo Shaftesbury

    This is the second of three Sunday night specials presenting the best shows from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tonight it's the award-winners night...

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This week

  • Turner Prize 2008

    Critics' Choice

    Art

    Until Sun Jan 18 2009, Tate Britain

    Despite providing ample ammunition for the Turner-hating tabloids – a fetishistic female mannequin sitting on the loo and films about cartoon cats and...

  • The Mariinsky Ballet

    Dance

    Oct 13-15, Sadler's Wells

    A debut at Sadler's Wells for the Mariinsky (aka the Kirov), quite possibly the world's best ballet company. Although steeped in tradition, the company have...

  • Vienna Café 1900

    FREE

    Around Town

    Oct 13-24, Royal College of Art

    A programme of free recitals, lectures and film screenings based around the RCA's exhibition on Viennese coffeehouse culture

  • A Disappearing Number

    New

    Theatre

    Until Sat Nov 1, Barbican Theatre

    An infinity of infinities is as big a topic as you can get, but Complicite, a company that likes to boldly go where no company has been before, is fascinated...

  • The Burial at Thebes

    Classical

    Oct 11-12, Shakespeare's Globe

    The poet Seamus Heaney's update of the Greek tragedy by Sophocles has been set by the Trinidad-born composer Dominique Le Gendre and tells of the victorious...

  • Moshi Moshi 10th Birthday

    Music

    Sat Oct 18, Matter

    A veritable veteran of the indie label scene celebrates ten years with a few of the acts they've discovered, including Hot Chip, Kate Nash, Tilly And The...

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I love Woolworths

The Baggage Reclaim blog has recently compiled an absolutely definitive poll that declares the wonderful Woolworths to be the second most depressing shop on the high street (Iceland was first)....
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