Entertainment in West Yorkshire, listings

Music: Jenny dazzles despite all the drizzle

ARTIST: Rilo Kiley Read

Real Life: How to hit the shops with a budget of £25

HAVE you ever flicked through one of the monthly, fashion glossies and had that sinking feeling of inadequacy and being, well, down right poor. Read

Gigs: now booking

AVENGED SEVENFOLD 21st January - Manchester Academy Read

Music: Take That slot for Tim

RISING star of the singer-songwriter world Tim Daniel is being backed by chart-toppers Take That, who have given him a support slot on their current tour. Read

Music: this week's gigs

Leeds, Cockpit – SONS AND DAUGHTERS Read

Young, gifted and artistic!

A FESTIVAL of arts and creativity has begun in Huddersfield. Read

Crossing the Divide

HUDDERSFIELD metal band Divide are to appear with US act Boy Hits Car when they kick off their UK tour on November 22. Read

Terry George column: Nice big party but no celebs

I WENT to a party in Nottingham, hosted by my Secret Millionaire co-star Chek White. Read

Pricey for Peter down South

I TOOK Peter Grant, the super-smooth crooner, down to my bar, Fibre, for a drink after his sell-out show at Leeds City Varieties. Read

Holmfirth here we come say new Terrorvision

NEWLY re-formed Nineties band Terrorvision are heading for Holmfirth. Read

DJ Kate at Camel Club

BIG Brother winner Kate Lawler is to DJ in Huddersfield. Read

UTILISING the same sophisticated motion capture technology as The Polar Express, Robert Zemeckis’s computer animated re-imagining of the oldest surviving poem in the English language boasts dazzling fight sequences, lusty serving wenches and mythic creatures.sheds his clothes to fight the man-eating Grendel, or Angelina Jolie’s sylphlike form emerges naked and dripping wet to seduce the brawny hero. Read

Film review: Brick Lane

Since its publication in 2003, Brick Lane by Monica Ali has inspired adulation and condemnation with equal fervour.Prize for political writing, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and The Guardian Fiction Prize. Read

Music: this week's gigs

Leeds, Brudenell Social Club: NANCY ELIZABETH + Thee Stranded Horse + Benjamin Wetherill + Fran Rodgers Read

Terry George column: I’ve met the two Mels but icon Geri’s my fave

FIRMLY on my list of things to do at the moment is the task of securing a photographer’s pass for one of the London Spice Girls shows ... which is proving to be easier said than done. Read

Music: Teen band are on the up

MOST teenagers dream of being rock stars – but Huddersfield indie band Ten Floors are one step closer to making their dream real. Read

Music: Gigs, now booking

BLOC PARTY 13th December - Manchester Central [fka Gmex] Read

Music: New line-up for Shaun’s town gig

CLECKHEATON singer-songwriter Shaun T Hunter is breaking away from his quiet, soulful style and heading out on the road with a new band. Read

Real Life: X Factor winner Leona wants lasting success

LEONA Lewis was described by X Factor’s mastermind Simon Cowell as “absolutely the best contestant” he’d ever come across on the show, while Take That’s Gary Barlow, who sang alongside the Londoner on one of the programmes, said she was fifty times better than any other hopeful who had appeared on the talent contest. Read