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Hollywood comes to London for National Movie Awards

25.05.10
Hollywood figures such as Tom Cruise and stars of Twilight will be jetting to London for the National Movie Awards.... more

Turner Prize winner Martin Creed is to make even the lift sing as part of a new choral festival at the Southbank Centre

21.04.10
Turner Prize winner Martin Creed is to make even the lift sing as part of a new choral festival at the Southbank Centre... more

£950,000 grant for Royal Festival Hall organ

04.02.10
The Heritage Lottery Fund is set to step in to help re-install the historic organ, which was dismantled five years ago... more

Tamsin Waley-Cohen is a bow belle

04.12.09
Tamsin Waley-Cohen, 23, was only two when she heard her first violin on television... more

Venezuelan youth orchestra to star in the new season at Festival Hall

14.04.09
The orchestra now hailed as the most successful youth music project in the world is taking up residence in the Southbank Centre... more

Child killer's freedom bid uses art at Festival Hall

09.04.09
A child murderer is using a sculpture he created behind bars that is on display at the Royal Festival Hall in his appeal against his sentence... more

Canteen Baker Street is blast from past

17.12.08
Canteen looks so much the part. The owners stress that they take design as seriously as they do food.... more

Nicole Kidman's thigh-grazing minidress shows off her amazing post-baby figure

08.09.08
Actress Nicole Kidman looked back to her glamorous best as she led Hollywood's A-list at London's National Movie Awards. ... more

Best bars on South Bank

05.09.08
You can combine a culture fix with a great night out at South Bank. Here are our top venues to sit and soak up the atmosphere.... more

The orchestra that wants you to listen to real rubbish

01.09.08
An orchestra playing instruments fashioned from junk is to perform at the Royal Festival Hall... more

Five to try: British Food

23.07.08
British food may get a lot of bad press abroad but these restaurants are working hard to prove the critics wrong. ... more

Five of the best: a staff canteen and then some

09.04.08
A former derelict workshop, bike shed and canteen are amongst the five best restaurants to have been turned around by architecture.... more

Ether 08 merges art with technology

07.04.08
From the unveiling of Goldfrapp's album launch to the world premiere of In Seven Days, here is a guide to the highlights of this year's Ether festival at the Southbank Centre.... more

Capital buildings stand proud at design awards

13.03.08
London has dominated a major architectural awards ceremony, taking more than a third of the honours for a string of new buildings and renovations of historic landmarks... more

Daydreaming in the pews with Madge's weird sister

05.03.08
Goldfrapp's daydreamy skip through the world of folk makes for a beautiful but subdued sound that translated extremely well to a live show.... more

Great Pall of China

25.02.08
The Shen Jun show is dated and sentimental, with comically bad compères, laughably awful film projections and dance routines that would make panto producers blush.... more

Achingly cool at Skylon

19.11.07
It may sound like a hotel on the outskirts of Heathrow, but Skylon strikes exactly the right note.... more

Free classics at the RFH

01.11.07
The Royal Festival Hall is to host a series of free classical concerts after the success of similar events in June.... more

Alternative Christmas at the Southbank

31.10.07
The Southbank Centre are to host a range of performances and free family events as part of their Christmas programme.... more

Critic's choice: Top Five Gigs

14.09.07
Beach Boy Brian Wilson continues his performances at the Royal Festival Hall and T Rexstacy pay tribute to Marc Bolan.... more

Eating at the Canteen

27.06.07
It's not fine dining, but the new branch of Canteen on the South Bank gets the formula just right with superb British food in a buzzy atmosphere.... more

Futuristic retro is fine but has its limits

13.06.07
Skylon is time travel with tablecloths. The main reason to go here is the romantic view of the Thames that brings out the courting couples. ... more

250,000 welcome back Festival Hall

11.06.07
More than a quarter of a million people flocked to the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall at the weekend.... more

It's a winner: the reborn festival hall

29.05.07
The sense of space strikes you first, sheer generous expanses undulating over different levels, like a rectangular version of the English countryside. ... more

The Southbank light show

23.05.07
Lily Cole and Thandie Newton have attended a Vogue party to mark the forthcoming reopening of the Southbank Centre, after two years of redevelopment.... more

New Conran owner opens flagship restaurant

12.03.07
The new owners of the Conran restaurants are to launch their first branch in May in a bid to shed the "tired" image of the chain.... more

Rankin gives South Bank a facelift

27.02.07
A giant frieze featuring some of London's most influential cultural figures is to be unveiled outside the Royal Festival Hall.... more

30 miles of scaffolding fills Royal Festival Hall

06.09.06
It's the Royal Festival Hall but not as we know it. We take a look inside the venue, which is halfway through a £111m redevelopment.... more


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