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CLASSICAL & JAZZ

Jazz Nights

Since the popular fortnightly Jazz Nights sessions relocated to The Cherry Tree in Belchamp St Paul, (between Haverhill and Sudbury), the guest-list just seems to get better than ever. This Sunday it's the rather special Julian Siegel - one of Britain's top saxophonists. Julian recently received the ...

GIGS & CLUBS

Pub Quiz time!

Tucked away on Gwydir Street off Mill Road and known for being a real ale paradise, the Cambridge Blue is holding a pub quiz every Wednesday in January and February. You can expect lots of laughs, lots of people, and lots of drinking to take place. Prizes will be awarded to the winners in the form o ...

THEATRE

Neighbourhood Watch

Committed Christians Hilda and Martin move into the Bluebell Hill development, and join a Neighbourhood Watch group, founded by disillusioned local residents. As the group's agenda progresses from fence heights to Third Reich-style moral preaching, the mood becomes increasingly chilling... ...

Cambridge city and area guide

Hidden Rooms: Bar, Club, event venue

the best cocktails - there really is no better place to see and be seen.

Bears and beer

Meeting Whittlesey's Straw Bear

Tenpin bowling: 50% off karaoke

Karaoke booths let you and your mates show off your singing.

Plough Monday in Ely

Morris dancers make merry on Plough Monday

COMING SOON - EDITOR'S TOP PICKS

	FOOD AND DRINK Feb 04 20:00: Hopbine (Cambridge) Hopbine Winter Beer Festival This five day festival will feature a tempting range of real ale, local and branded beers, local cid ... More >

	THEATRE Feb 04 19:45: Cambridge Arts Theatre (Cambridge) Neighbourhood Watch Neighbourhood Watch, Alan Ayckbourn's 75th play, tells of a disillusioned group of Daily Mail-readin ... More >

	JAZZ Feb 05 20:00 - 22:30: Cherry Tree (Belchamp St Paul) Jazz Nights Winner of 'Best Instrumentalist' at the BBC Jazz Awards, Julian Siegel will play a lively set at The ... More >

FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS

	THEATRE Feb 04 19:30: Theatre Royal (Bury St Edmunds) Top Girls Thatcher´s England: hard-nosed, go-getting businesswoman Marlene is hosting a dinner party to ... More >

COMEDIANS AND POETS Feb 08 20:00: Fountain Inn (Cambridge) Hammer & Tongue featuring Dizraeli and Inja Sign up as one of the eight to compete in the poetry slam for a place in the Regional Final, or just ... More >

	THEATRE Feb 09 19:30: Theatre Royal (Bury St Edmunds) Stagefright It is 1894 and something is stirring at London´s Lyceum Theatre- something terrifying, somethi ... More >

	GIGS Feb 10 20:00: Haverhill Arts Centre (Haverhill) The Mersey Makers Celebrate the sound of the 60´s with songs by The Beatles, The Searchers, Gerry & The Pace ... More >

	CINEMA Feb 10 19:00: La Dante in Cambridge (Cambridge) Italian Film Club 13 Jan, 7pm: Nuovomondo. 10 Feb, 7pm: Agata e la tempesta 9th Mar, 7pm: La prima cosa bella ... More >

NIGHTLIFE - ARTICLES

Neighbourhood Watch

Has Alan Acykbourn morphed into Woody Allen? There is something about the late works of both Al’s that reminds one of the other: the erstwhile great master of comedy still churning out a new work, the audience for each hoping (against hope?) th ...

Electric, but no charge

There's an instinctive, although perhaps flawed assumption that one can make; that a free gig will be of lower quality than one that charges for admission. That's not surprising. If, for example, one was to be offered a free sandwich in a coffee ...

Shame

In an age where mental illnesses are finally being studied and tackled rather than swept under the carpet; Steve McQueen tackles one of the most taboo of all psychological maladies: sex addiction. The new and stylish director of Hunger has really giv ...

War Horse

Horses! Do you like horses? Here’s a film about horses. Horses, horses, horses – and war. War Horse is based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel of the same name, and takes inspiration from the recent London stage adaptation. We follo ...

BalletBoyz

The dance world has come a long way in the past decade, and the terrific performance by BalletBoyz at the Cambridge Arts Theatre this weekend was a striking example of its progress. & ...