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  • Last updated: 17th March, 2010 09:00am

    It's Playtime!

    THURSDAY night at the Sacred Cow Promotions' launch party at Play, formerly Plug N Play, was nothing if not cool.

  • Published: 16th March, 2010 06:00pm

    Inside Job at Theatre Royal Windsor

    THERE are twists and turns aplenty in this three actor play featuring Stephen McGann from Emmerdale and Chris Ellison from The Bill.

  • Published: 16 Mar 2010 09:00

    Film of the week: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18)

    FOR the second time in as many years, Scandinavian cinema comes up trumps with a stylish and invigorating thriller guaranteed to have audiences teetering excitedly on the edge...

  • Published: 15 Mar 2010 09:00

    Review: Terra Nova at The Oakwood Centre, Woodley

    WHILE Ted Tally's work takes many liberties with the actual events surrounding Robert Falcon Scott's fatal attempt to be the first man to reach the South Pole it is,...

  • Published: 14 Mar 2010 14:00

    A restaurant with a view...

    BOULTERS Restaurant & Bar has been called the 'Jewel of the Thames' and it is easy to see why the moment you step foot inside.

  • Published: 14 Mar 2010 09:00

    Review:Champion Brass at The Concert Hall, Reading

    A NEAR-capacity audience was enraptured by the world-famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band who gave a brilliant rendering of their programme.

  • Published: 13 Mar 2010 14:00

    Film of the week: Alice In Wonderland (PG)

    COMBINING a unique aesthetic, conjured from his twisted imagination, with dark humour and heartfelt emotion, Tim Burton has remained a visionary in a sea of profit-driven conformity...

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  • Published: 13th March, 2010 09:00am

    Review: We'll Always Have Paris

    by Barrie Theobald

    SUPER play, super set and super performances from all five members of the cast. I could almost finish the review there and hope that everyone rushes to see Jill Hyem's new play for themselves!

  • Published: 6 Mar 2010 09:00

    You won't be left Hungary

    A GROF Feje. Or if you live in the village of Sunninghill, you may know it better as The Dukes Head, a pub in Upper Village Road that was taken over in September last year by...

  • Published: 3 Mar 2010 14:00

    Film of the week: The Lovely Bones (12A)

    HERE is life after death in Peter Jackson's visually stunning interpretation of the best-seller by Alice Sebold, which proves to be one adaptation too far for the Oscar-winning...

  • Published: 2 Mar 2010 09:00

    The Beat at Sub89, Reading

    ALTHOUGH I consider myself a Hendrix-obsessed guitar head, back in the early '80s the cardboard-covered tape album by The Beat was played to death in my old Mini (alas the...

  • Published: 1 Mar 2010 14:00

    Review: Journey's End at The Hexagon

    RC SHERRIFF'S classic account of soldiers coping with the trauma of life in the trenches has lost none of its extraordinary potency.

  • Staying In

  • Published: 17th March, 2010 09:00am

    Turning up the volume

    BERKSHIRE'S top talent has spoken out against the likely closure of BBC 6 Music.

  • Published: 10 Feb 2010 09:00

    The plight of the gluten-free

    IMAGINE a life without crumpets, tea cakes, chocolate fudge cake or raiding the biscuit tin.

  • Published: 16 Dec 2009 09:00

    Take one leek...

    IT can be tough finding locally-grown, seasonal produce during the British winter, but the flavoursome British leek is at its best during the coldest months of the year.

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