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William Wegman

These high-fashion hounds are better dressed than most of Hollywood. In fact, they are stars themselves. The Fabric Workshop and Museum presents a special photography exhibition of William Wegman's famous Weimaraners dressed in an array of haute couture. Organised by the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, the show presents fabulous style with an imaginative canine twist. Clad in styles from the like of Versace, Gaultier, Gucci and Dolce Gabbana, these designer dogs are adorned in anything from string bikinis, gold sunglasses, beaded bags and elaborate hats.

Slava's Snowshow

When this wintry clown extravaganza floated to the UK, the praise piled up like a snowdrift. Now, after wowing audiences the world over for the last seven years (there's no business like snow business), it's here in Paris. Focused around the show's creator, Russian clown Slava Polunin -Time Out award-winner in 1994 - the part-jocular, part-melancholy escapades involve five other actors, a healthy shovelful of poetic imagery and a huge quantity of fake snow.

Le Cochon Bourgeois

Known for its refined atmosphere, this new restaurant in one of the more upmarket parts of Kreuzberg is frequented by a lively mix of businessmen, politicians and eccentric arty types. Specialising in French haute cuisine, the menu includes dozens of simple but exquisitely prepared specialities such as quail salad and mushrooms and halibut and capers. A lot of effort also appears to have gone into the furnishings, which include an ornate ceramic oven and old wooden furniture.

Sushi Doraku

At Sushi Doraku, the raw fish travels via conveyor belt throughout the restaurant, four pieces to a plate. The plates colour-coded to reflect price and you lift up a little plexiglass door and snatch whatever you like as the dishes go by. At the end, the server comes over and counts the plates, feeds the info into a handheld computer and tabulates the bill. You can eat like a pig for $25, or get reasonably satisfied for $15. As an added bonus, service is polite and drinks are served quickly.

JP Barbers

The only English barbers in town has just moved to the centre with a vastly improved office just off Ulitsa Tverskaya. If you want to read your favourite men's magazines, relax with a cup of English tea and have your hair cut by a barber who remembers your hair from a year before then JP Barbers is the place. It's not cheap for Moscow but cheaper than in the centre of London. A solarium, manicures, pedicures, massages, shaving lessons and top of the line badger hair shaving brushes are also available.

Masterworks from the Phillips Collection

Fresh from unloading much of the art collected by its former owner Steve Wynn, the Bellagio's Gallery of Fine Art is exhibiting a loaned collection of 26 modern masterworks from the vaunted collection of Duncan Phillips. This collection founded as America's first museum of modern art in 1921, often loans part of its 2,400-piece collection to deserving galleries around the globe. The Bellagio's exhibition features paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Degas, Manet, Cezanne and others. Highlights include van Gogh's 'Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles' (1888) and El Greco's 'The Repentant St. Peter' (c 1600).

1953

Autumn's latest English-language show is this production of Craig Raine's play, which transposes Racine's 'Andromaque' to a fictional post-WW2 Europe. The Allies have lost the war and Hitler has sent a man to Italy to recover the son of the late King of England, much to the chagrin of King Mussolini, who is in love with the sometime Queen. The show is performed in English and French, with subtitles as an integral part of the show.

Uto Ughi and the Sofia Festival Orchestra

Siena's famous Chigiana classical music season nears its close with a concert of music by Beethoven. Gianluigi Gelmetti conducts while Uto Ughi, one of Italy's most distinguished violinists, is the soloist in the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 61. The second half of the programme is dedicated to that most famous of symphonies, Beethoven's Fifth. The venue is a theatre which is situated in Siena's spectacular Piazza del Campo.

Leonid Zvyagin

As part of the 'The Traditional and the Modern' exhibition at the Kremlin, ten works by master sculptor Leonid Zvyagin are on display. Zvagin is a master in the art of miniature silver sculptures done to a theme. Most of his pieces relect a nostalgic version of Russia but few can doubt the skill needed for such detailed work. One of the pieces on show is an old Russian bird fancier carrying two bird cages with two delicately carved figures inside each of them.

Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir

An evening of ambrosia for the ears is guaranteed at this extraordinary choral extravaganza. The sonorous voices of the Johannesburg Jewish Male Choir have joined forces with Soweto's mellifluous Milongi Kantu choir for the 15th Johnny Gluck concert. This unusual fusion of cultures translates into a joyfully diverse programme of Hebrew and African songs along with some good old favourites such as 'Climb Every Mountain' and 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', which are guaranteed to get the audience humming along.

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Cuisines, Renaissance Chicago Hotel

Chill out as you take a summer tour through Italy and along the Mediterranean coast with the new 'Summer Chill Menu'. Cuisines is a romantic spot with dark paneling, comfortable upholstered booths, soft lighting and an award-winning wine list. Start with chilled soups such as leek potato or roasted yellow tomato with arugula and toasted garlic, and move on to cold roast tenderloin of beef with spring vegetables or mesquite-grilled chicken breast. Desserts include hazelnut gelato with espresso coffee and Italian cherries.

Vivre Sa Vie

A veritable feast of French contemporary art is highlighted and celebrated in this multi-venue festival curated by Tanya Leighton.