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Review: The Sound of Music, Open Air Theatre

The classic camp musical, performed under summer skies in Regent’s Park. What’s not to like?

Community

Pinboard: A new record shop? A new bar? Plus markets and gay pride 2013

Shebeen vs the Tunnel Bar? Plus learn to act at the Pleasance, head to Granary Square for streetfood – and lots more to consider this weekend

Drink

Pinboard: Dach & Sons no more – plus Club Kali, DRAF, Station Sessions and St Patrick’s Day

1. Have you ever been to K-Town’s legendary Club Kali? Did you know the “world’s biggest LGBT Club where Eastern beats blend with Western classics” …

LGBT

Why It Matters: Recording Our Alternative Theatre

Dr Susan Croft on the importance of a movement that emerged in the late 1960s Did you know that Kentish Town is central to the …

LGBT

Why It Matters: Camden LGBT History Month

Camden LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender) Forum is in its eleventh year. The theme for its 2013 annual “History Month”, which runs throughout February, is …

History

The Anti-Valentine’s tale of Rimbaud and Verlaine

An ocean of booze, a wet fish and suicide threats. Learn from these two poets how not to conduct your romance

LGBT

Free Week? Explore Montreal, Canada: A Beginner’s Guide

No need to trawl an exhausting list of sights or tick off must-sees. Rather, it’s a place for the flaneur, where one multicultural neighbourhood melts into another

LGBT

Free Week? Explore Morocco – Tangier to Fes

‘Better to have one mosquito around you,’ says the faux guide, running to keep up with my purposeful strut across Tangier’s medina, ‘than a thousand.’ …

LGBT

Life Tips #16: Wayne Dhesi, 30, founder of rucomingout

1. Complement each other. A really great thing about gay relationships is that the basic differences between men and women are simply not there. My …

Film

Weekend film review: ‘its ending will make you cry’

On the surface it’s a slight tale of boy-meets-boy over a grey weekend in Nottingham. But there’s so much more than that

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