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23:16 > Wednesday 15th October 2008

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Theatre's blues night takes the biscuit
10:05 - 09 October 2008

BOB Ayre from Wheathampstead has scored a major coup for his regular Shades of Blues gig held monthly at the Maltings Arts Theatre in St Albans. Next Friday, October 17, sees the legendary King Pleasure and The Biscuit Boys launch themselves onto the stag... Full Story »

Music scene is coming alive

10:01 - 09 October 2008

PUBS and bars in St Albans are fast becoming trendy music hotspots thanks to the efforts of a young local musician. Danny Price, aged 23, set up his music-based business, E crip Promotions, at the start of this year to help local bands get gigs in the cit... Read More »

Songs of freedom open symphony's season

10:14 - 09 October 2008

ONE of the most stirring and best-loved compositions in the classical music repertoire, Finlandia by Sibelius, launches St Albans Symphony Orchestra s 2008/9 season next Saturday (October 18) at St Saviour s Church in Sandpit Lane, St Albans. Written in... Read More »

Gods curry favour with John Peel

10:23 - 09 October 2008

AN ALTERNATIVE punk-pop band discovered by the late John Peel is going to stop off in Hitchin before taking the world by storm. The Pocket Gods which consists of Mark Lee (lead vocals and guitar), his wife Claire (bass) and friend Annelise Moeke (lead gui... Read More »

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Comedy & The Arts

Musings of the elephant man
10:31 - 09 October 2008

FUNNY man Joe Pasquale is coming to Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre on October 25. Last year Joe decided to take a sabbatical to go in search of the ancient muffin of San Miguel. During his travels running with the great white elephants of Africa, he sp... Full Story »

Storms ahead

10:27 - 09 October 2008

PREPARE to laugh and scream your way through The Stormy Night at Hitchin s Market Theatre. The play has a very funny plot, laced with moments of fear, and revolves around a broken down car, a creepy house and an owner that looks remarkably like Dracula! W... Read More »

Toeing in line for club's charity show

10:15 - 09 October 2008

DANCE teacher Glenday Thomas is staging her 14th charity show at the Alban Arena on Saturday. The Harpenden-based Hiel n Toe Club has 125 dancers from tots to grannies and they hope to jig their way to raising more than £2,000 for the A-T Society, one of... Read More »

Heather puts the human body in the frame

10:28 - 09 October 2008

A WIDE range of artists work is currently being showcased in the main gallery at Letchworth Arts Centre as part of its annual open exhibition. Artists taking part include Stofold resident Terry Wood, who enjoys using watercolours and acrylics to paint pl... Read More »

Barney’s in town

10:28 - 09 October 2008

DON T miss the very loveable purple dinosaur, Barney! TV character Barney has been entertaining children for many years and now you can see him live on stage at The Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage on October 18 and 19. Powered by children s imagination,... Read More »

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Pirates set to take over the Arena

10:11 - 09 October 2008

MUCH-loved comic opera The Pirates of Penzance is being performed by St Albans Operatic Society at the Alban Arena next week. The Gilbert and Sullivan masterpiece is known for its rollicking band of rough pirates, incompetent constabulary and Major Genera... Read More »

Calamity Jane
Video: Review: Calamity Jane at the Gordon Craig Theatre

10:52 - 08 October 2008

CLASSIC songs including The Deadwood Stage, Secret Love and Windy City are echoing around the Gordon Craig Theatre in Stevenage this week. Belting out the show tunes are members of the Hitchin Thespians who are staging Calamity Jane all this week until Sa... Read More »

What's On

10:26 - 09 October 2008

Thursday October 9 o A display about the Midland Railway in Hitchin – at Hitchin Museum, using material from the Midland Railway Study Centre and the National Railway Museum.Until November 4. o The Longest Journey, From Slavery to Abolition – an exhibitio... Read More »

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At The Movies

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Igor (PG)

11:05 - 13 October 2008

LAB assistant Igor has big dreams of winning the evil science fair, but must create the most ghastly thing imaginable to be in with a chance. So he brings in a group of friends and develops a Frankenstein type creation. This animated film has a host of st... Read More »

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Igor (PG)

11:05 - 13 October 2008

LAB assistant Igor has big dreams of winning the evil science fair, but must create the most ghastly thing imaginable to be in with a chance. So he brings in a group of friends and develops a Frankenstein type creation. This animated film has a host of st... Read More »

igor
Igor (PG)

11:05 - 13 October 2008

LAB assistant Igor has big dreams of winning the evil science fair, but must create the most ghastly thing imaginable to be in with a chance. So he brings in a group of friends and develops a Frankenstein type creation. This animated film has a host of st... Read More »

igor
Igor (PG)

11:05 - 13 October 2008

LAB assistant Igor has big dreams of winning the evil science fair, but must create the most ghastly thing imaginable to be in with a chance. So he brings in a group of friends and develops a Frankenstein type creation. This animated film has a host of st... Read More »

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Burn After Reading (15)

11:03 - 13 October 2008

BRAD Pitt and George Clooney join forces again in an all-star cast for Burn After Reading. It s a dark comedy directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen about a blackmail plot which goes horribly wrong. The memoirs of a CIA agent Osbourne (John Malkovich) f... Read More »

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Burn After Reading (15)

11:03 - 13 October 2008

BRAD Pitt and George Clooney join forces again in an all-star cast for Burn After Reading. It s a dark comedy directed by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen about a blackmail plot which goes horribly wrong. The memoirs of a CIA agent Osbourne (John Malkovich) f... Read More »

 

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