The Book Club is dead! Long live The School for Gifted Children! Robin Ince's Book Club, for the unacquainted, was a delightfully ramshackle evening of intellectual mirth and experimentation, which was given a grand farewell in December at the British Museum. Tonight The School for Gifted Children kickstarts the glorious sounding N20 Comedy Festival for show, stories, songs and outright lies in the dinky Studio 68 at Battersea Arts Centre. Robin Ince is in......

Try as we might most of our friends don't seem to appreciate the fact that we have Tuesdays off and might actually want to do something on Monday night. The fact that you'll only have 4 hours sleep really isn't a concern of ours, we just want to party... grumble grumble. If raving it up is your idea of Monday hell, then Craft Night at Notting Hill Arts Club provides a rather interesting alternative......

The Independent has a small preview of the East End Film Festival which starts tomorrow: The festival opens with Richard E Grant, director-in-residence, introducing his own directorial debut Wah-Wah - a family drama inspired by his experiences of growing up in the Sixties, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson and Julie Walters. Other highlights include the Palme d'Or-nominated Election, a Hong Kong Triad thriller starring Tony Leung; It's Nice up North, in which the comedian......