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It’s madness, and part of Polari’s WTF Friday features. Madonna, Alan Turing, public toilets, and the death penalty, again ….

“Last week it was simply ‘death penalty for fags’, but now ‘polari’ has been added, which is just weird, unless someone was looking for the translation of said terms into the glorious Polari lexicon. …”

New contemporary art exhibition at Bletchley park.

ArtHertz presents an exhibition exploring the themes of codes, code-breaking, Alan Turing, the role of pigeons and women in World War II.

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176 pages & 256 pages • Penguin English Library • 31 May & 27 September, 2012 [PB]

E.M. Forster’s Italian novels are full of beauty and conflict, and the film versions are but pale shadow.

“A Room With A View is a romantic comedy, and a more conventional book than Where Angels Fear To Tread. Forster was apprehensive about it, and he fretted over the quality of the character’s inner lives.”

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307 pages • Matador • September 09, 2012 [PB]

For a bleak book with a high death count, David Gee’s The Dropout is also also witty, clever, insightful and worldly-wise.

“David Gee’s tongue-in-cheek, if dark, social and sexual satire (a sort of cross between David Lodge and Tom Sharpe) leads us through a topsy-turvy world of sexual shenanigans and unconventional relationships.”

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4.10 min • A389 Recordings • August 30, 2012

After seven years, Eyehategod is back with the single New Orleans Is The New Vietnam, from the new, as yet untitled, album.

“Williams’ voice is like no other; it’s not merely screaming or growling, his voice becomes an instrument in and of itself, his words blurring to become musical notes rather than something to sing along to. It’s the vocalization of a tortured soul in its purest form.”

And Nothing Happened.

Scott De Buitléir is reminded of a road not taken … because there was a road-block..

“Despite the good memories, he was detached while we were dating. I once teased him for having the emotional depth of a teaspoon, but in retrospect, that wasn’t too fair.”

Win tickets to see Dexter Clark live at Leicester Square Theatre, September 29

What name would you give to Dexter Clark’s own iconic hair-do?

Bad Romances.

Bastian Korff talks cabaret, finding the emotion in the pop songs he covers, and the difference between British and German audiences.

“Bastian Korff has a splendid, powerful voice. In his stripped-down renditions of classic pop he finds the heart of the song, and what he sings is raw and decidedly real.”

From the Queen of Slap, Dash and Crass.

A night of gumption and foolish hullabaloo, where change is within the power of the audience.

A Well-Endowed Library.

Naked Boys Reading LDN is the perfect intimate live event: a nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings.