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We can't hold our excitement in any longer – it's December! You can finally open that hallowed first box on the advent calendar, you can listen to Christmas songs without the guilt of premature celebration, you can even start decking the halls with boughs of holly (whatever a bough is). Let's not get too ahead of ourselves though, there's still plenty to see and do around London before St Nick fires up his sleigh, and our monthly London Loves guide will tell you all you need to know.

Elsewhere this week, we took a look back at London's clubbing history in our Lost London Clubs feature, plus Flux Pavillion and SKisM compiled their Spoonfed DJ playlist. We put together a list of December comedy crackers which will have you ho ho ho-ing like a good'un, and we also met some of London's buskers. Finally we celebrated the return of The Poundshop - similar to a normal pound shop, but with really cool stuff instead of just foreign shampoo and dodgy sweets.

Features

Spoonfed Competitions

Win amazing stuff thanks to Spoonfed!

Stewart Lee

Scooby Doo and Osama Bin Laden...

On Screen

December's best film events.

Spoonfed Singles Club

Doughnuts, snowmen and jetpacks.

Friday 2nd

A glass sculpture of bacteria sounds oddly intriguing, see for yourself at Trauma from Friday.

For a few alternative Xmas shopping ideas, the East London Design Show takes place across the weekend at Shoreditch Town Hall. Robots are running the show over at the Science Museum, and The Z-Shed bring Raffertie and Starkey to Hidden.

Saturday 3rd

Awesome vintage shopping opportunities at Judy's Affordable Vintage Fair in Spitalfields, while over in South London, Gifted offer a weekend extravaganza of art and design.

Love Fever, one of London's finest underground parties, is going down at a secret warehouse location. And if you like your music live and loud, then The Kills at Brixton Academy cannot be missed.

Next week

On the live circuit next week the brilliant Little Dragon take a trip through colourful soundscapes at Shepherd's Bush Empire on Sunday, while Caribou Vibration Ensemble is near guaranteed to be amazing.

Things get decidedly Christmassy on stage with A Christmas Carol and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Political satirist Andy Zaltzman will get you laughing at the Soho Theatre, and The Mystery of Appearance is an ace exhibition featuring work from the likes of Francis Bacon and David Hockney, and it's free!