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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
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Theatre
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Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
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Description: The New York-based jazz songstress promotes her latest Verve album, The Orchard.
Phone: 0870060 3777
Website: www.jazzcafelive.com
Trains: Tube: Camden Town 
Extra info: Pub, Air Conditioning, Taxi, Food
Letting it all out: Emotional show for Lizz Wright
Thus far in her rootsy career Lizz Wright has yet to invoke Shakespeare but the notion of sweet sorrow is something she already understands intimately. Unrequited romance (I Wanna Stay With You, Chasin' Strange, I Idolise You, Let Me In) is key to her songs, and after an hour of them last night one began to wonder whether any other singer, Leonard Cohen included, had dispensed heartbreak in such lavish proportions.
Even Billie Holiday lightened up now and then. So should Lizz. Her solemn gospel lines, melancholy lyrics and funereal tempi date back to her debut album, Salt, when allowances were made for her youth. Many young girls, it was noted, spend solitary nights wallowing in loneliness and yearning for lurve. But five years on, even after exchanging backwoods Georgia for big bad New York, it's substantially the same story.
On the credit side she has a rich, deep contralto that fills a hall, a majestic instrument that enables its owner to close her eyes and sing the blues away. It also blurs categories. Apart from a few moments from guitarist Brandon Ross, the jazz element was remote, but listeners clearly didn't care. "This jazz, this is blues, this is not - hey listen," she quipped at the start. "I'm just here to have a good time." And in her pain-wracked way, she did.
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