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Our spidey senses are up and we’re sensing something a little spooky in the air... and à la Roald Dahl’s ‘Witches’ we can confirm that yep, it’s definitely cheeldren, leeeeetle cheeldren. With Half Term kicking off next Monday we’re making the most of this weekend to run amok, from debauched late-night art collecting and a not-safe-for-kids film fest to whisky tasting in the afternoon. Making us the worst possible babysitters in the city; so you know who not to call.  

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• FRI A Lust for Art! • SAT Twin Peaks • SUN Auchentoshan Presents

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Jewel Piccadilly

Fancy keeping it central this weekend? Following a thorough refurb, sparkling bar Jewel Piccadilly is celebrating by launching a new Friday night
Carte Blanche. Yep, you got it right – it’s all about doing exactly what you want, which we imagine will come in as a handy ethos when faced with their delicious new cocktail menu and the prospect of a little free face-painting (you know you want to...). If you book a table for 5 people or more they’ll even throw in a complimentary Courvoisier sharer cocktail.

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FRIDAY
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ART: Sold Out: American Pop Art
Whilst you've probably seen many a reproduced image of the classic Heinz can or proudly worn a Haring t-shirt in your youth, this exhibition gives you the rare chance to actually see some of the world's finest Pop-Art works in the flesh. Check out works by Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann and Robert Longo, and revel in the characteristically flat colour, repetitive nature and unapologetically bold subject matter. Then buy the t-shirt.

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Time: 10am-6pm
Place: Olyvia Fine Art, 17 Ryder Street, SW1Y 6PY
Cost: Free
Info: Sold Out: American Pop Art
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OTHER: A Lust for Art!
All good things come to an end – even if they’re of the slightly unscheduled conclusion being experienced by arty nightspot Club 21 this weekend. But before it shuts shop it’s inviting you to come and take your pick of the fabulous works inside, from £10 nick-nacks to the giant black bed from the likes of Jota Castro, Roberto Cuoghi and A Constructed World.

Time 7pm-midnight
Place: One Marylebone, 1 Marylebone Road, NW1 4AQ
Cost: Free
Info: A Lust for Art!
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TODAY
Reverse Graffiti

Go and show some support for your favourite London publications (including yours truly!) today by checking outthe Reverse Graffiti Project- a collaboration between media entrepreneur Marc Cameron (founder of Se7en Magazine) and renowned reverse-graffiti artist Moose. Rather than spray painting onto walls, his ‘clean-art’ technique involves removing dirt to reveal patterns and shapes via the cleaned surface underneath – this time the logos of UJ, Time Out, Dazed, i-D, Vice and more. Scattered around the East End, we’d recommend you start at Corbet Place, E1. Feel free to send us your shots with the UJ wall! Whoop!

Logo locations: Urban Junkies: Corbet Place, just down Hanbury St | Attitude: Commercial St/Whites Row| 5 magazine: outside 333 on Old Street | Time Out: Shoreditch High St/Grt Eastern St | The Face: Corbet Place, just down Hanbury St | Vice: Corbet Place | Seven: Shoreditch High Street | Loaded: traffic island junction of Shoreditch High St/Hackney Road | Dazed:
outside Kick, Shoreditch High St.

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SATURDAY
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FILM: Twin Peaks Weekender
Ah, before he was Charlotte’s impotent husband in SATC, Kyle MacLachlan played the coffee-obsessed lead in David Lynch’s cult series Twin Peaks. Join this ‘Lynch Lock-In’ for 32 hours of back-to-back episodes and try and figure out which of the creepy insular characters killed a small-town homecoming queen whilst wolfing down cherry pie.

Time: From 11am
Place: Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11
Cost: £19.50-£35
Info: Twin Peaks Weekender
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NIGHTLIFE: Space Reunion
If you’re missing the sultry sounds of summer there’s no better cure than grouping together in a room full of people who feel the same way. Like AA for Ibiza addicts, the island’s superclub reunion promises performances from DJs Femi B, Danni Murray and Ian Haddassi, Sam Young, Clare Spooner and Digital Damage, with the kind of erotic dancers and golden cages in the ‘Gold Dust’ room that’ll make you reminisce about that bikini body. Thank God for Winter.

Time: 10pm-6am
Place: Pacha, Terminus Place, Victoria, SW1V 1JR
Cost: £20
Info: Space Reunion

COMPETITION
£500 TK Maxx Vouchers

It’s time to go back to shopping school! You’ve seen our Editor’s TK Maxx picks, you’ve been down to the Gracechurch Street store (we hope!) and now we’re giving you a little test. Get those pencils sharpened and answer our pop-quiz question to be in with a chance of winning £500 to spend in-store. We spied these work-perfect loafers in the menswear department; designed by a famous Italian label, the original price was £320. Simply tell us: what you think the TK Maxx price is, and you could be buying them for yourself. Teachers pets, bring your shiniest apples.

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SHOP
BAPE Baby Milo Halloween Tees

We were hoping to save these little numbers until next week’s Halloween special, but being so adorable we figure there’d be a stampede and we’d hate for you to miss out. Pick between the whole dressed up trick’or’treating gang, or Baby Milo rocking a witchy pumpkin ensemble under a starry sky.

£60. Bape store, 4 Upper James Street, W1F 9DG

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ART: Affordable Art Fair
Sure ‘Art under £3000’ is likely to come in at £2999.99 these days, but it’s still a damn site more affordable than your average wall hanging, making this the perfect place to scout out a bit of guilt-free gallery work from over 120 leading establishments. Scrawls start at £50 with good ‘one’s to watch’ like Rob Ryan exhibiting alongside bigger hitters. Call it an investment and call it a day.

Time: 11am-6pm
Place: Battersea Park, SW11 4NJ

Cost: £15
Info: Affordable Art Fair
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OTHER: Auchentoshan Presents...
Whisky lovers should head down to this Single Malt-sponsored series of events which sees a different promoter curate Sunday afternoons, starting with Kill Em All. Join Boy 8-Bit, Justin Robertson, Becoming Real and residents Filthy Dukes for whisky tastings and dance floor flailings.

Time: 3:30 – 10:30pm
Place: Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ
Cost: Free
Info: Auchentoshan Presents...

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This week’s hottest foodie destination

Blacks
Bacchanalian Sunday lunching at old-school Soho members club

67 Dean Street, W1D 4QH - 020 7287 3381

Location
Founded in 1992 by Giuseppe Mascoli (also owner of Franco Manca pizza pitstops) Blacks club in Soho oozes history. Formerly a tea-rooms frequented by Samuel Johnson and other 18th century London literati it now attracts a no less louche crowd.

Vibe
Dim and cavernous with flickering candles and the scent of roast lamb, rum and debauchery in the air, Blacks is one of the most atmospheric members clubs in London, so Mascoli’s idea to start a series of indulgent, seven-course Bacchanalian Sunday lunches, prepared by guest chefs such as Tom Parker Bowles, Rose Prince and others, is a fitting one.

Flavours
This coming Sunday (24 Oct) restaurant critic and chef Bill Knott takes to the stove with Mascoli to conjur up partridge en escabeche, venison pie, chartreuse and green apple sorbet and other delights, while on 21 Nov, food writer Rose Prince brings her expertise to the kitchen along with potted crab and rabbit terrine, roast and confit pheasant and toffee milk pudding from her new book, Kitchenella. Rare, organic and bio-dynamic wines will also be on offer.

Décor
Shabby-chic Georgian grandeur with more than a touch of baroque or ‘Hogarth meets Dickens’ as Bill Knott describes it – either way, you get the picture. There aren’t many places left in London, let alone Soho, quite like this.

Upshot
Blacks has always done things in its own eccentric way so their Sunday lunches promise to be unlike any other. There are still a few places left for the next one but if you miss your chance book for the one after. £35 per place excluding wine.

For the month of November Urban Junkies readers can receive access to private members club, Blacks Soho by quoting 'Urban Junkies' when making a reservation. Reservations must be made in advance by calling 020 7287 3381. Upon visiting, additional membership offers will be made available exclusively to Urban Junkies readers.

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