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What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

Saved on 03/07/2008

This Wednesday and Thursday there are advanced screenings of Forbidden Kingdom (12A) starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li. Contains frequent...

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

Saved on 03/07/2008

Oxford Playhouse:And Then There Were None - Set on a remote island off the coast of Devon, Agatha Christie's own stage adaptation...

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 04 - Thurs 10 July)

Saved on 03/07/2008

Friday:Charivari Agreable: Early Music by Candlelight - The Fayrest Quene - Exeter College Chapel, Turl St. The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band - The Anchor, Hayfield Rd Dave Newton trio (piano led trio) - The Old Parsonage The Epstein - Crown House Club...

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 04 - Thurs 10 July)

The Tories: the dirtiest trick of all

Saved on 27/06/2008

The other main parties really don't like us. What, in particular, they don't like is the image of the LibDems as the 'nice party', a party of which there is no need to be frightened.Both Tories and Labour in the past have attempted to dent that, but it's been half-hearted compared with the Conservative...

The Tories: the dirtiest trick of all

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

Saved on 27/06/2008

The Edge of Love (15) starring Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy, Keira Knightley. Contains strong language and bloody injury detail....

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

Saved on 27/06/2008

Oxford Playhouse:The 39 Steps - This blissfully funny show follows the incredible adventures of Richard Hannay as he encounters murders, secret agents,...

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

Saved on 27/06/2008

Friday:Cello Recital - Trinity College Chapel Steve Fishwick (trumpet) with Tim Lapthorne (piano), Tim Dawes (double bass) - Old Parsonage Jazz Dinner Concert with the Zena James Trio - Brookes Restaurant Vixens + Turnpike Glow + Giovanna & The Sands...

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 27 June - Thu 03 July)

One roast swan short of a Banquet

Saved on 23/06/2008

I know that citing the Google searches that resulted in people accidentally stumbling across one’s blog is a bit clichéd, but... hey, trite-and-tested is my motto. And I did like the idea of someone keying in the phrase:Tony Blairs Lord Mayor Blanket speechIt sounds like rather a good idea: forget the...

One roast swan short of a Banquet

Because criticism should be fair and factual

Saved on 23/06/2008

That fearsome right-wing triumvirate – Robert Halfon for ConservativeHome, The Spectator’s Stephen Pollard and The Times’s Daniel Finkelstein – all repeat what they consider to be a terribly clever point about Gordon Brown’s tainting of David Cameron as a ‘shallow salesman’.Here’s Mr Halfon:Far from...

Because criticism should be fair and factual

New Pub to Open in George Street

Saved on 20/06/2008

Wetherspoon's new city centre pub is set to open on Monday, August 4.The pub - which will be called The Four Candles, a nod to a Ronnie Barker sketch - is based in the former Slug and Lettuce premises in George Street.

New Pub to Open in George Street

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