A party at Jalouse, an exclusive members club at Mayfair, hosted a celebration for Jean-Pierre Braganza’s collection with a live performance of Ilia Darlin, an Athens-born electro-pop singer.

Alan Ayckbourn’s work is having a renaissance with a new production which combines black comedy and emotional drama, fringed with a lace of gothic suspense. Watch Snake in the Grass now at Notting Hill’s most innovative space, The Print Room.

To get closer to the answer for the question it is worth a visit to a current exhibition at the HOST Gallery. Hidden on Honduras street in the City, this small gallery might not get enough attention as it should deserve.

Israeli singer-songwriter Tally Koren officially launched “Beauty of the Duty”, the first single of her second album “72 Names” at Punk, the club and music venue in Soho. It sounds like a down tempo pop-rock tune with electro and Middle Eastern twists. If the rest of the album is as good, we’re in for a treat!

After a winter of torturing a plethora of Z-list ‘celebs’ in the Australian Outback, a certain group of creepy crawlies are about to descend on the capital’s Science Museum this spring. Cue: the mighty cockroach!

A crowded audience witnessed the promising debut of Klezmer Kollectiv in London. Their Thursday’s night gig at Green Note, in Camden, proved the band’s talented musicians but, and foremost, it gave Londoners a sense of what is like to party with a truly, upbeat folk music.

The Cardiff based klezmer band is having a gig at the Green Note in Camden next Thursday. The eight-piece instrumental combo plays a fresh, offbeat style of the Jewish folk music that traditionally buzzes on weddings and parties. Coming to see these guys is a bet for dancing, cheering and loads of fun.

Before the likes of David Tennant and Matt Smith, people of a particular age will remember a certain Sylvester McCoy saving the universe as the enigmatic time lord Doctor. In recent years, however, McCoy has been more comfortable on stage than in the TARDIS with the ex-Doctor’s most recent role as Captain Grimes in the first theatre production of Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel Decline and Fall at the Old Red Lion Theatre Pub.

“The new millenium does not bode well for our closest relatives in the animal kingdom – the great apes of Africa, Borneo and Sumatra. Without urgent effective action, their evolutionary odyssey will soon end – at the hands of their human cousins.” – Ian Redmond

Christmas has long been a season of indulgence – with its lavish roasts and gigantic tins of mass-manufactured sweeties. But this year, ditch the Roses and (not much) Quality Street – and head to the London Chocolate Festival for some proper confectionery!