16/02/08

It's Saturday night, the Discovery channel is showing something dreary about monster trucks, but there's no need to sit around watching that guff. So why don't you turn off the TV, go out, and do something less boring instead?

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2 Many Bloggas (Club)

Trafo, 16th Feb, from 10pm, 800 ft
Liliom utca 41 [map]
Tel. 456 2040
Pest, IX, Ferenc körút (M3), 3 min

Saying that this event brings together the movers and shakers in Budapest is arguably, overstating it. But that's not to say that you can't move and shake with a few people who are doing something more than sitting on their donkeys. Kunk, Gumipop and Death Disco DJs, a fashion show of sorts and an opportunity to get yourself known among some other relatively unknowns are all good reasons to turn up.

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Tomasz Stańko Quintet (Concert)

MUPA, 16th Feb, 19.30, 1000 - 3500 ft
Komor Marcell utca 1 [map]
Pest, IX, Boraros tér (T 4,6), 8 min

Polish jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stańko is back once again, this time with a new line-up. His personal, instinctive approach to music is refreshing and challenging, rejecting pretentiousness while embracing experimentation.

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Manchester United vs. Arsenal (Football)

Sport 1 (TV), 18.15
Lots of places, Hungary [map]

Come on Utd! Come on!!!! Come on a skateboard, you could've come on a skateboard! One nil to the Ars-e-nal! You're supposed to be at home! How wide do you want the goal? Whether you support either or neither, with £4 billion of talent on the pitch, it can't be a bad game, can it? And... it's on Sport 1, so you don't have to watch it in Beckett's.

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Kampec Dolores (Concert)

Cökxpôn, 16th Feb, 800 ft, 9pm
Soroksári út 8-10 [map]
Pest South, IX, Boráros tér (T4/6), 4 min

Highly recommended by "a German daily paper", Kampec Dolores ask "Is this music a kind of virtual world music?" The answer is, of course, "What???" A meld of Jazz and Folk, 23 years touring, and some far-out vocals, makes for an interesting evening. Mainstream it isn't.

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Cloverfield (Film)

Corvin Budapest Filmpalota 12, 15.45, 17.30, 22.45
Corvin köz 1 [map]
Pest South, VIII, Ferenc krt (T4/6, M3), 1 min

JJ Abrams' 'Lost' left you feeling a litte lost? Because you don't know what's going on and neither does he? Well, try out his latest...it's a monster flick shot on a handheld camera, from the perspective of a partygoer. Like Blair Witch but with money behind it.

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