Entertainment

MCM London Comic Con pass the 100,000 visitor mark for the first time, smashing the Excel-based event’s previous highest attendance record. Show organisers revealed that 101,600 attendees came through the doors of MCM London Comic Con between Friday 23rd and ...

London Wine Week – a huge seven-day celebration of the capital’s emerging and passionate wine scene – is now upon us. To be part of the self-guided Wine Tours and enjoy £5 flights or glasses of premium wine in more ...

“Urban Development, a charity which provides support and advice to young people trying to make it in underground music, has spent 12 years proving that a strong social conscience doesn’t have to mean governmental do-gooding. While its foundations are philanthropic, ...

Controversial local venue the Rich Mix Cinema is offering films and football this month. As part of the East End Film Festival, Rich Mix will be showing a number of films and hosting subsequent Q&A sessions from 14th to 25th ...

The thirteenth East End Film Festival begins, ironically, on Friday, 13th June and runs for two weeks. Unfortunately, much of the promotional material about the festival’s events doesn’t say where each is being held. You will have to head over ...

Emdad Rahman reviews Where shall we walk today? Walking the Pennine Way, by Dave Marriott. As an avid walker I particularly enjoyed reading Dave Marriott’s excellent book recently. Fifty-two year old Dave grew up in the 1960s in a Derbyshire ...

“Seeing Years & Years live last year was probably the best surprise of 2013. Young Olly Alexander has the holy fire in his hands: a soulful voice with a crazy R’n’B vibe, which enables him to be simultaneously emotional and ...

How far does a tenner go these days? Get hold of London Quiz and you can find out. Any of you responsible for setting pub or classroom quizzes should be able to make the book last nearly eight years – ...

Why trudge down to the west end when you can see a top notch production in the comfort of our own borough? The Rich Mix cinema is hosting two “NT Live” shows in the coming weeks. How it works is ...

Emdad Rahman: Ten year old Mikael Mustafa, a pupil at Hermitage, joined his fellow pupils to take part in a play at the St James Theatre, London. Virtual Enchantment is a fairy tale for the internet age. The play was ...