The Edinburgh Fringe may be over but for Londoners the comedy season is just starting. Tim Minchin created fireworks with an invigorating greatest hits set at the Greenwich Comedy Festival... more
The annual arts jamboree north of the border begins tomorrow and - from Tim Supple's One Thousand and One Nights to Marc Almond's Ten Plagues and Omid Djalili's new show - there is plenty to make the trip worthwhile... more
Ferocious showers might have been the talking point at the sixth Latitude Festival but they had competition from showstopping music, punter-pleasing comedy and startling theatre... more
Here is an unusual approach to playing the top end of the London property market from agent Knight Frank, which is offering tips on how to spot the next Mayfair, Belgravia or Knightsbridge... more
Artistic director Steve Marmion is overseeing an overdue expansion and improvement plan at Soho Theatre. He wants to make it the go-to venue for a late-night laugh... more
Hiring pugilistic ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott in a new TV advertising campaign is boosting sales at comparison website Moneysupermarket... more
The London Stock Exchange has “now concluded” its investigation into a major and embarrassing outage last November, at the time rumoured to be sabotage, that saw the stock market suspended... more
Price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com has a strong fourth quarter as online hits are driven by its adverts fronted by Omid Djalili and Lord Prescott... more
Omid Djalili is excellent as a Muslim who discovers he was born Jewish in The Infidel; a laugh-along moral drama that is unafraid to tackle religious taboos.... more
Almost all the comics you love to watch, from Stephen Fry to Jimmy Carr, from Eddie Izzard to Jenny Eclair, were first noticed up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ... more
Omid Djalili wowed the crowd with some edgy humour light years away from Little Britain's fancy dress frivolity at the Comedy Hayday in Hackney.... more
Full Mooners at midnight, a benefit for Ghana, playful Irishman Kevin McAleer and the mighty, fearless Stephen K Amos - they're all on this weekend.... more
Life on an allotment is like an Ealing comedy, says Valentine Low, who tends his own plot in East Acton. So what does he make of a new British film about urban gardeners, Grow Your Own?... more
Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more
A 24-carat line-up takes to the stage for The Secret Policeman's Ball, the if.comeddies awards season continues and comedy package tour Edinburgh & Beyond has quality running through it.... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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