This Week's Jazz and Blues (August 18 - 24)

At Freud this week, you can catch Neil Mason on the Spanish Guitar, Martin on the Flamenco Guitar, The Alex Hawkins Jazz Band, and the Karl Demata Blues Duo; The Bullingdon Arms has Trafficker (fronted by British blues guitar sensation Tommy Allen) on their famous Monday Blues night and Live Jazz with the Tom Grey Quintet; The Old Parsonage has Jim Mullen (guitar) Simon Colam (piano) and Tim Dawes (dbl bass); Gee's Restaurant has Rachael Calladine (vocals) Tim Lapthorne (piano) Tim Dawes (dbl bass); The Big Bang Restaurant has the Abi Strevens (pictured) Trio; and Bar Milano has a Folk Night with Cicily & Lattice.

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This Week's Classical Music (August 18 - 24)

The Holywell Music Room is this week's location of Sunday's Coffee Concert with the Prometheus Piano Trio as well as the location for Jack Gibbons playing Rhapsody in Blue.; Exeter College Chapel will host Charivari Agreable two nights this week, performing The Virtuoso Godfather and The Oxford Psalms - Domestic Devotional Anthems & Psalms from 17th Century England; Magdalen College Auditorium will host An Oxford Song Evening with Oxford Lieder, as well as the City of Oxford Orchestra performing The Trumpet Shall Sound; and finally, Opera Anywhere performs Open Air Opera at the Oxford Castle.

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What's in the Theatre this week? (August 18 - 24)

You can still catch Macbeth or Robin Hood at the Headington Hill Park through the beginning of September.

Also showing this week: The Oxford Playhouse is running Charley's Aunt; The Burton Taylor Theatre is showing the child-friendly Egg and Spoon, and Dreams Come Out To Play; and finally, The Abingdon Touring Theatre Company will be bringing Canterbury Tales to Ewelme, Horton-cum-Studley, and the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon.

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What's in the Cinema this week? (August 18 - 24)

Opening this week is the drama Harsh Times. Good times turn bad when two hell-raising drop-outs are faced with the consequences of a few days spent causing havoc around Los Angeles. The film is rated 15, and stars Christian Bale and Freddy Rodriguez.

Also out this week is the teen comendy John Tucker Must Die. Jesse Metcalfe (Desperate Housewives) stars as a high school student who keeps cheating on his girlfriends. Three of them get together with a new girl to break his heart and dump him. The film is rated 12A, and stars Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, and Ashanti.

Last, but certainly not least, is the opening of the superbly named Snakes on a Plane. An FBI agent escorting an eyewitness on a flight has to deal with a plane full of deadly snakes released by the criminal who wants the witness dead. The film is rated 15, and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Byron Lawson, and Nathan Phillips.

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