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KERENZA EVANS DARES TO EXPLORE THE HOUSE OF MAGIC

There are many thrills to be derived from the telling of ghost stories and the macabre; in high school, my friends and I used to spend our music lessons holding fake seances in the rehearsal rooms, in lieu of perfecting performances of Clair De Lune for the fiftieth god-forsaken week. While I'm fairly sure that if we had conjured up the spectre of choice, a lifetime of trauma would have ensued, I think we were always slightly disappointed when nothing happened, other than a teacherly lecture as to why we don't try and raise the dead on school time.

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DICKENSIAN LONDON LIVES ON AT THE ZETTER TOWNHOUSE

Be aware: when searching for The Zetter Townhouse, Google-Map is not your friend; it seems convinced that the emerging cocktail bar is located within a rather officious looking block of flats. Resisting clawing at someone's office door and calling for cocktails, we eventually uncovered that the bar is located in the charming unnamed building opposite.

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DARE YOU EXPLORE THE WORLD OF THE BLACK CAT CABARET? KERENZA EVANS INVESTIGATES.

I’ve been to a few cabaret and burlesque nights in recent weeks. The beauty of them is that even though the basic concept is the same, the way the sets are devised and performed always seems unique and never grows tired or stale. Kind of like the inverse of a Jodi Picoult novel. My latest venture took me to The Black Cat Cabaret at Café de Paris in Soho where a decadent interior expertly conjurs up the palatial atmosphere of French vaudeville. Imagine Moulin Rouge, but with more sex and the absence of an over-acting Nicole Kidman.

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Brainchild Festival 2013: Preview by Francesca Goodwin

An antidote to the large faceless corporate festivals is springing up at Merton Farm in Canterbury this July in the form of the community-led Brainchild festival. ………..

‘We’re going to run a festival together’, so gushed the nineteen year old Marina Blake, co-founder of the Brainchild festival, to her friend Isobel Adomakoh-Young at midnight, New Year’s Eve 2012.

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