The Effing and Blinding Cabaret offers entertainment that can't be seen at all but is still cabaret... five blind performers do songs and sketches in total darkness. Without dwelling on the novelty of the situation, the songs and sketches are surreal cabaret subjects such as how Charlton Heston really died, selling property and auditioning actors. We're looking forward to seeing how it goes down here - though of course, we'll not be 'seeing' anything.......

Bourgeois and Maurice. Image by The Two We witnessed the devastating glamour, glory and grot of Georgeois Bourgeois & Maurice Maurice at GSK Contemporary late night cabaret at the Royal Academy not long ago and we just had to share them with you. Words failed us, so fortunately, they've got some great ones themselves: Visionaries and victims of the 21st century hype-machine that is life, Bourgeois & Maurice are your transient musical guides through the......

In need of a pick me up to beat the wintry blues? Conserving cash against the credit crunch? Well it sounds like you could do with a "sizzling soiree full of sounds, visions and magic" and the all important free entry. Get yourself down to the Cosmo Bar, 50-54 Clerkenwell Road. "Visions of Delight" promises music, words and unspecified 'other treats' featuring intriguing 80’s inspired alternative electro with a cabaret twist from duo Loadfram......

If you've been round the back of the venerable Royal Academy lately, you might have noticed the neon flags flying from Burlington House. Abutting the eminently respectable Byzantium mega exhibition up front is GSK Contemporary, an eclectic 3 month season in 2 parts, exploring contemporary visual art. Featuring multi media artists we've yet to hear of and an intriguing programme of events, film, performance, experimentation, discussion and debate this major show will be open......

Arts Ahead is back with all the info you need to keep culturally up-to-date in the capital this week... Watch out for the start of London Sculpture Week on Friday. If bronze, limestone and marble are your things, pop along to galleries throughout the Mayfair area for a celebration of all things sculptured; from 14th-century Tibetan art to young London-based sculptor Piers Secunda, who creates sculptural works entirely out of paint. At school, it......

Britain's first super prison will probably be in London. Fancy a musical? Well hurry up, Cabaret has now posted closing notices following Spamalot & Gone With The Wind 8 years down the line, the London Eye has rotated it's 30 millionth visitor. We did Latin at University. It's amazing, but Boris, really? Are you absolutely sure it's the solution? And Rose Tremain has won the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction. Photo taken from Envoy's......

And now for something completely different. We stumbled upon Joey Herzfeld and some of Hooverville at the Carling Academy back in January. Their extraordinarily different sound, great musicianship and stage presence alienated half the crowd and transfixed the rest. Were they mental or brave musical pioneers? We couldn't resist snagging them for an interview purely on the basis of a song called "Cavity Search" and a frenetic gypsy dancing interlude. It went like this.........