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Friday 10th February 2012, 12:38am
Zoe Strimpel

Art
YAYOI KUSAMA
Tate Modern

*****

The Tate Modern’s new show, a retrospective of the work of Yayoi Kusama, Japan’s most famous living artist, is an engorgement of colour, size and intensity.

Kusama’s work is a...

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Friday 10th February 2012, 12:37am
TIM BADHAM

EARLY 2012 openings are showing plenty of promise. Take Galante on South Ken’s Sloane Avenue. After a beefy expansion, Gaucho is opening its first cocktail bar. Inspired by Argentina’s gilded era, staff at the Art Deco-inspired Galante don...

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Friday 10th February 2012, 12:35am
Steve Dinneen

Theatre
THE DEVIL AND MR PUNCH
The Barbican
****

The Devil and Mister Punch is the seaside theatre production from your nightmares, where human-sized puppets wielding baseball bats break loose from the stage and Mister...

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Friday 10th February 2012, 12:34am

Film
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
Cert: 12A
****
by Stevie Martin

Daniel Radcliffe returns post-Potter in this traditional ghostly yarn based on Susan Hill’s novel and the wildly popular West End show. Director James Watkins...

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Friday 10th February 2012, 12:31am
Stevie Martin

Film
THE MUPPETS
Cert: U
*****

Whether you loved it first time around, or never got the whole “fuzzy-animals-singing” thing, now’s your chance to catch up with the Muppets. When the young, Muppet-obsessed Walter (voiced...

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Wednesday 8th February 2012, 12:43am

The City’s hottest dinner ticket – the Square Mile Salute – is almost upon us again: and this year the organisers are hoping even to surpass last year’s fantastic evening.

The charity event will see a bakers’ dozen of the country’s finest...

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Wednesday 8th February 2012, 12:42am

Skiing with Franz Klammer
Four days skiing next winter in the premier skiing locations in Italian, German and Austrian Alps, hosted and personally guided by Olympic Champion Franz Klammer.

Five Nights on Albany in the Bahamas
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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 1:01am
Zoe Strimpel

BATTLING the cold requires all sorts of snuggly warm vestments. The only bit of skin left literally in the cold is your face. The effect is dryness, redness and lost luminosity. Panic not, though, if a week at a Maldives spa is not on the cards...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:59am
LAURA WILLIAMS

FITNESS & DIET EXPERT

SO apparently two-thirds of us have now ditched our new health regimes. One of the main reasons? Bordeom. Here’s my pick of the bunch for how best to mix it up for the rest of the year.

For the daredevil:...

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Tuesday 7th February 2012, 12:54am

Valentine’s day can be a minefield for the unprepared. Come home on the day with a bunch of supermarket flowers and a box of Quality Street and you may as well bed in at the office and prepare for that big meeting the next day.

The...

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