Posted: 2010-07-29 11:25:01

Ally Pally confirms exciting line-up for Autumn 2010; Lynx Halloween All-nighter, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip & Vampire Weekend

Iconic London venue, Alexandra Palace, is pleased to announce its exciting event line-up for autumn / winter 2010. In keeping with its live music heritage, Alexandra Palace will also be announcing a number of other top artists set to play this autumn, so keep an eye out for further details.

The Lynx Halloween All-Nighter on October 30th will give party fans a

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Posted: 2010-07-29 11:11:19

Has your relationship run its course? Here's how to tell...

Relationships, like hot summers, often look better from a distance. Just as you forget how draining a muggy day can feel, you also forget how soul-destroying and lonely a relationship can feel when it's not going well.

“So just end it,” right? It's never as simple as that. Most of us have experienced that dilemma of not knowing whether to walk away from a relationship. You think that you're being too picky, you worry that n

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Posted: 2010-07-29 08:09:25

Last night I went to a work do. I had on my heels but en route to the bar I sheepishly confessed to my colleague how I had my flat shoes hidden in my bag. I am just not hard-core enough to totter home in heels anymore (I am obviously getting on a bit). She laughed at me and opened her bag to reveal an identical set of Birk's tucked away in her handbag. Seems we were not alone - after our meal out a few of us ladies left at the same time. We all assembled out front and reached into our bags in un

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Posted: 2010-07-28 11:59:30

Final call for entries for the John Betjeman Young People's Poetry Competition

Are you a budding Poet Laureate? Would you like to try your hand with a poem about place to The John Betjeman Young People's Poetry Competition open to children between the ages of 11 and 14? The first prize is £1,000, (£500 to the winner and £500 to the English department of their school). The first prize winner, runner-up and highly commended will also each win £50 of book tokens.

Closing date for ent

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Posted: 2010-07-26 16:34:35

Apostrophe, the London based café group, is launching ‘Espresso Yourself’, a competition to design a special edition winter takeaway cup.

Following the success of Apostrophe’s ‘Window Wonderland’ competition last year that invited creatives to design festive artwork for the store windows, ‘Espresso Yourself’ will give participants the chance to have their artwork printed on Apostrophe’s cups during the winter season.

Open to everyone, the competition will run from 5th July 2010 to 16th Aug

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Posted: 2010-07-25 13:21:29

Ever since I saw him as the blue furry alien transformed into piano playing Mr Right as Mac in “Earth Girls are Easy” I have adored Jeff Goldblum. Maybe it’s because he is so dark and tall, maybe because he always plays an intellectual, super smart but sensitive and geeky kind of guy (how many dinosaur films have I watched to see him?). He’s not a conventional film star heart throb, but I like him. And I was sorely disappointed when I couldn’t get tickets to see him in “Speed the Plow” at the Ol

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Posted: 2010-07-21 13:15:05

Apostrophe, the London based coffee shop group have recently launched a competition to win a weekend in London in association with Gallic Books, to mark the paperback release of Muriel Barbery’s latest novel ‘The Gourmet’.

The ‘weekend in London’ prize includes dinner for 2 at pan-Asian restaurant, Inamo in Soho, tickets to The 39 Steps, a 1 night stay in the Lancaster London and breakfast at Apostrophe. All entrants have to do to win is describe a gourmet experience of their own.

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Posted: 2010-07-19 09:36:01

I went out for drinks on Friday night, and made a swift exit before the karaoke fest began. My friend Victoria tried to convince me to stay saying that karaoke be an excellent resource for bloggable material. I was tempted, but assured her that usually something happens on the way home that is blog worthy. Not five minutes later we were walking past a bus stop from where a young man was fleeing, and two buxom buggy pushing ladies were laughing. Friday night revellers. Then one of them suddenly j

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Posted: 2010-07-19 08:55:34

With fond memories of Terence Stamp in the 1994 film I took along two teenage girls with me to the Palace Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue to see the winner of the “Best New Musical 2010”.

For those of you who haven’t heard it’s a story about three drag queens (one of which is a recently bereaved transsexual) travelling across the Australian outback in a bus called Priscilla to perform a special series of shows in Alice Springs.

Having posed outside for a photo with the huge high heeled, spa

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Posted: 2010-07-16 09:06:07

I took part in the city race last night, along with about 5000 other Londoners. 5kms around the city. Despite feeling like I was suffering from a bout of narcolepsy before starting (had to get chocolate to cure me) it was a great race and there was even a goodie bag waiting at the end, filled with treats and an enormous one-size-fits-all T-shirt. The burning questions on my mind post race were. 1. Did I beat the guy dressed up as a Zebra and 2. How many people mistook their free pink sachet of f

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