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  • London's best bakeries

    We round up the cake shops, patisseries and bakeries where you'll find London's best bread, pies, biscuits, cakes and other baked wonders

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  • Christmas fairs & markets

    There are plenty of festive Yuletide winter fairs peppered around the capital. Here's a guide to the best Christmas markets in London

  • Edward Scissorhands

    New

    Until Jan 18 2009, Sadler's Wells

    Matthew Bourne's take on the Scissorhands story , which stays close to Tim Burton's film – minus Johnny Depp of course – is great fun

Today

  • Winter Wonderland:

    Dec 2, Brixton Academy

    Xfm-assembled bill headlined by Kaiser Chiefs, with Iglu And Hartley, Ida Maria, Ladyhawke & White Lies

  • August: Osage County

    Theatre

    Until Jan 21 2009, National Theatre, Lyttelton

    Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama in London for eight weeeks only.

  • 40 Years of London Sinfonietta

    Classical

    Dec 2, Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Harrison Birtwistle's 'Cortège'; Christian Mason's 'In time entwined, in space enlaced' (world premiere); Larry Goves's 'Springtime' (world premiere);...

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This week

  • Dazzle

    FREE

    Around Town

    Until Jan 10 2009, National Theatre

    Annual jewellery showcase featuring more than 3,000 works for sale by 77 designers from around the world. This year's exhibition also includes a selection...

  • Hamlet

    New

    Theatre

    Dec 3-Jan 10 2009, Novello Theatre

    Doctor Who's comes to London as the play-acting prince whose critique of the world lives most vividly in his eyeball-swivelling, lanky-limbed parodies of the...

  • On The Up: ISA GT

    Music

    Fri Dec 5, The Barfly

    In the headline DJ slot at the next exclusive Time Out event, Columbian lynchpin of Girlcore ISA GT

  • Alfred Sisley

    Art

    Until Feb 15 2009, National Gallery

    British landscapes and seascapes by the nineteenth-century English impressionist.

  • Santa's Secret Village Christmas Experience

    Kids

    Until Dec 23, South Bank

    Part of the Cologne Christmas Market on the South Bank between the Hayward Gallery and the London Eye, a 30-minute grotto experience where children can meet...

  • World Press Photo Exhibition

    FREE

    Around Town

    Until Dec 7, Royal Festival Hall

    This annual exhibition showcases the best photojournalism of the past year. This year's competition attracted a record 80,536 entries from around the world

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New site for bus nerds

Check out this new site , which plots any route you want on Google Maps. Very handy for those of us who have, in a moment of madness, elected to catch every bus in London in numerical order. As...
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