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The Tsarina's Slippers is well-shod but shoddy
This feeble, unimaginative production at the Royal Opera House is a disappointing pitch for the festive market that’s unlikely to win converts to opera... more | Add your review
An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
Florence Welch seemed to arrive fully formed from another world, but ready to take on ours... 
This feeble, unimaginative production at the Royal Opera House is a disappointing pitch for the festive market that’s unlikely to win converts to opera... more | Add your review
Shortlisted at today's Evening Standard theatre awards for his role as Othello, Lenny Henry has come a long way from black and white minstrels.. more | Add your view
Simon Cowell called the duo an "unstoppable machine" but X Factor twins John and Edward have finally been kicked out of the show.. more | Add your view
Taylor Swift showed she is like any other teenage girl as she shopped with her mother in London — hours before being crowned the new queen of pop at the American Music Awards.. more | Add your view
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Katie Price has fled the I'm A Celebrity jungle after she was voted by the public to face yet another bushtucker trial.. more
Having celebrated its glorious past with Sonny Rollins and Chick Corea, the London Jazz Festival climaxed with a glimpse of the future in the leggy, Afro-haired person of Esperanza Spalding.. more | Add your review
Mama Africa was a celebration of South Africa’s Miriam Makeba, one year after her death. The stellar line-up of African artists made sure it was a sell-out.. more | Add your review
Musicians are realising that there are plenty of ways they can help save the planet — without making the rest of us cringe... more | Add your view
What our critics made of Rihanna, Lady Gaga and 50 Cent's new album... more | Add your view
Joel and Ethan Cohen's A Serious Man isn't just a comedy - the serious edge of human enquiry is there too.. more | Add your review
As the dark nights beckon, it's oddly comforting to be transported to one of Earth’s coldest places with The Fahrenheit Twins... more | Add your review
It's a gloomy Saturday night and the capital is in the grip of the 'storm of the year'. Why not lighten your mood with a trip to the school disco.. more | Add your review
Somehow, despite the corny filth, Julian Clary's show at the Leicester Square Theatre was a hugely enjoyable romp of a comeback.. more | Add your review
Mennula (apparently the word for almond in Sicilian dialect) is a great addition to the restaurants of Charlotte Street... more | Add your review
