Calendars: the traditional Christmas stocking filler. Whether it's the perennial Hollyoaks Hunks or the unofficial Danni Minogue 2005, they're all there, strangely greased and carefully airbrushed, ready to be enjoyed by your teenage brother or sister (at least that's what you tell the man on the market stall). |
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Festival hits the Bees play at the Electric Ballroom tonight. 7:30pm. 184 Camden High St, N1. £12.50. 0870 154 4040 or online. | ||||
Tate Britain has opened its Paula Rego exhibition 10am-5:45pm. Millbank, SE1. Free |
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Roachford is at Jazz Cafe. 7pm. 5 Parkway, NW1. £18. 0870 154 4040 or online. | ||||
But now there's a calendar which you don't have to take home in a plain brown wrapper. A calendar which is printed on 170gsm paper, comes with specially designed Velcro fasteners and has a 125 Micron matt encapsulated finish (no, us neither, but it sounds good eh?). This is the Protein° Calendar, a 1200mm by 420mm designer monster that displays the year as a 29 day Lunar Chromo (which, In English, means that every day is displayed in a new colour depending on the phase of the moon). |
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Harrods repeats its dogs-on-catwalk Pet-â-Porter fashion do. 8-10pm. Knightsbridge, SW7. £25. 020 7225 5662. |
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A revived Living Colour is at Mean Fiddler. 6:30pm. 165 Charing Cross Road, WC2. £15. 0870 154 4040 or here. | ||||
So now when you wake up on 1 January 2005 feeling like someone ran you over with a muddy tractor, you can blame it on the strange lime hue of the lunar cycle (and not the strange lime hue of the dozen or so alcopops you saw in the New Year with). Protein
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Massive Attack's Daddy Gee headlines at AKA for launch of Graffiti World. 8pm-2am. 18 West Central, WC2. £5. |
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The Ashton centenary fiesta at the Royal Ballet brings us Requiem. 7:30. Bow St WC2 £10+. 020 7304 4000 /here. |
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No sombreros: Rodrigo and Gabriela at Lock 17. 7:30pm Camden Lock, NW1. £12. 08700 600 100 or online. |
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