Event with appeal

If you’ve only put cox’s and pippin together in some kinda weird Lord of the Rings outtake, then think again and get yourself down to Cockington’s Apple Food Day on Sunday.

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Arthouse roundup: Oct 13-19

Follow the main cinema links for dates, times and matinee screenings. Follow the title links for movie details, friendship and maybe more. 

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

A Scanner Darkly (15) An animated Keanu Reeves (hey, there’s a first time for everything) gets, like, totally bummed out in this excellent screen version of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid

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Listening post

Weekends are dull, dull, dull. You sit down with a (suitably leftist) paper, make a steaming cup of stinky tea and put on the new album by The Killers. But – uh oh! – it begins to dawn on you the record is utterly shite. ‘That’s it – the whole weekend is RUINED!’, you bark,

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Name dropping

We’ve stolen Dame David Bowie‘s Thin White Duke identity and are using it to buy monkeys and Viagra online. He’s pretty angry about it but being just a poor popstar he cannot afford to have us killed. So, what’s a kook to do?

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Three little words

Who couldn’t be unconvinced by David Cameron’s focus on three letters (that’s NHS in case you missed it), but if you’ve been let down by Labour, especially on the health front – and let’s face it who hasn’t? – now’s your chance to enter into a meaningful debate on the future policy of the Labour

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MCR for Pavilions

‘Don’t call us emo’ emo stars My Chemical Romance are heading to Plymouth Pavilions on Tuesday, March 20.

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Waste line

We all know that you, as citizens of the People’s Republic, are committed to cutting waste at home but are you lapsing into bad habits as soon as you hit work?

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Carbon dating

What more proof do you need that those liberal lot down at the Guardian have been subscribing to the People’s Republic of South Devon? No sooner do we mention the admittedly long-held belief that carbon offsetting isn’t as good an idea as it first sounds (not that it sounds a good idea in the first

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Get creative

Blow away those Tuesday night cobwebs and the inanity of watching too much telly by skipping along to the Creative Collective tonight at 7 at the Exeter Phoenix media centre. Always different, entertaining and challenging you get to see what tomorrow’s real talent is up to today – are you sold enough? Then go, you

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Hot under the collar, at least

Now with autumn starting to nibble away at your little toesies, cast you mind back to the revelation made by a host of energy and social charities about the cost of energy for those using meters, generally those who need to watch their budgets. But that’s not all

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Wet, wet, wet

The Environment Agency is aiming to make a splash with its Flood Awareness Day in Plymouth this week (heh heh!).

Held on Wednesday in the city centre’s Place de Brest, the event will boast a pool of agency experts (oh, our aching sides), advising citizens on how they can protect themselves and their properties

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Pot luck

It’s not all leftist polemic and smug posturing at PRSD towers, y’know. Or at least, it’s not only leftist polemic and smug posturing at PRSD towers. We may not be able to fit into our ridiculously tight emo trousers these days but we can still let our proverbial hair down with the best of ‘em,

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Arthouse roundup: Oct 6-12

Follow the main cinema links for dates, times and matinee screenings. Follow the title links for movie details, friendship and maybe more.

PLYMOUTH ARTS CENTRE

Innocent Voices (12A) “War is stupid, and people are stupid,” sang Boy George in the eighties. And he was dead right – at least that’s according to director Luis Mandoki

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Money, money, money

How to Hug Trees by the indomitable (and also rather nice) Theatre Alibi will be performing at the Barn Theatre, Dartington on Saturday, October 7; The Barbican Theatre Plymouth on Saturday, November 4; Exeter Phoenix Friday and Saturday November 10 and 11; and around Exeter schools in the evening (01392 211080) between November 13

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