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Jim Pottinger: Marine Paintings (Category: Art exhibitions, Public galleries)

Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BY

Tel: 01224 337700

Dates: 10/01/2009 to 05/04/2009

Show times: From Jan 10, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12noon-3pm, ends Apr 5

Price: free

Aberdeen-related ships connected with the offshore industry and fishing.

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Wireless (Category: Art exhibitions, Public galleries)

Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BY

Tel: 01224 337700

Dates: 15/11/2008 to 01/03/2009

Show times: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12noon-3pm, closed Dec 25 & 26, Jan 1, ends Mar 1

Price: free

The history of the wireless including transistor radios and kirsch items.

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Sexy Glam At Tiger Tiger (Category: Clubs, Indie)

Tiger Tiger Shiprow, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB11 5BY

Tel: 01224 252434

Dates: 10/01/2009 to 10/01/2009

Show times: Jan 10, 10pm-3am

Price: £5, free b4 10pm

Commerical pop and disco funk.

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Tiger High at Tiger Tiger (Category: Clubs, Retropop)

Tiger Tiger Shiprow, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB11 5BY

Tel: 01224 252434

Dates: 09/01/2009 to 09/01/2009

Show times: Jan 9, 10pm-3am

Price: free entry in fancy dress

John Milne spins 1990s dance, plus pop and funk from the 1970s and 1980s.

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Vodka Island at Tiger Tiger (Category: Clubs, Indie)

Tiger Tiger Shiprow, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, AB11 5BY

Tel: 01224 252434

Dates: 12/01/2009 to 12/01/2009

Show times: Jan 12, 10pm-3am

Price: £4, £3.50 b4 11pm

DJs play student anthems, dance anthems, R&B, hip hop and soul across three rooms.

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Australia (12A) (Category: Cinemas, Drama)

Vue, Aberdeen, 10 Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BW

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 12.45 4.10 7.30 10.55 (Fri-Sun)

Price: £6.90, concs £4.30, family £17.20 & £18; Tue all tickets £4.50

Transport: BR: Guild Street

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Bill Hunter, David Gulpilil, Ben Mendelsohn

Year: 2008

Country: US/Australia

Running time: 165mins

Lady Sarah Ashley leaves behind the finery of the English aristocracy to travel to the Australian outback and confront her husband Lord Ashley on the Faraway Downs cattle station, where he spends most of his time. She finds a huge property in financial disarray, on the brink of takeover by scheming King Carney, who controls most of the local cattle market. With the help of a swarthy drover, Sarah decides to challenge Carney's monopoly by herding 500-strong of prize cattle all the way to port in the face of stiff resistance from her rival's right-hand man and heir apparent, Neil Fletcher.

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Bedtime Stories (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Aberdeen, 10 Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BW

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 10.10 (Fri-Sun) 12.30 (Fri-Sun) 3.20 5.45 8.15

Price: £6.90, concs £4.30, family £17.20 & £18; Tue all tickets £4.50

Transport: BR: Guild Street

Director: Adam Shankman

Cast: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox, Teresa Palmer, Jonathan Pryce, Lucy Lawless, Russell Brand

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 99mins

Hotel handyman Skeeter Bronson may not be the huge success he always hoped to be, but he is devoted to his sister Wendy and her two adorable kids, Patrick and Bobbi. The imaginative uncle agrees to tell the youngsters bedtime stories to help them drift off to sleep, inventing tall tales full of magic, mystery and daring deeds. When elements from these stories, suggested by the tykes, unexpectedly impact on real life, Skeeter realises that his fairy-tales are coming true and he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with the two excited youngters.

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Inkheart (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Action)

Vue, Aberdeen, 10 Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BW

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: 10.40 (Fri-Sun) 1.15

Price: £6.90, concs £4.30, family £17.20 & £18; Tue all tickets £4.50

Transport: BR: Guild Street

Director: Iain Softley

Cast: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Andy Serkis, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Sienna Guillory, Rafi Gavron

Year: 2008

Country: Ger/UK/US

Running time: 106mins

Doting father Mo Folchart has kept a terrible secret from his daughter Meggie since she was three-years-old: he is a Silvertongue and inadvertently sent his beloved wife Teresa into the pages of a book called Inkheart. Ever since, Mo has scoured second-hand bookshops for a copy, desperate to undo his misdeeds. Stumbling upon a tatty, old copy of Inkheart, Mo finally believes he could be reunited with Teresa only for the past to catch up with him. Joining forces with a stranger called Dustfinger, Mo risks everything to outwit the villain Capricorn and his goons, and reunite his fractured family.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Aberdeen, 10 Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BW

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Fri-Tue 10.50 (Fri-Sun) 1.25 3.45 6.15 (not Tue); Wed/Thu 1.25

Price: £6.90, concs £4.30, family £17.20 & £18; Tue all tickets £4.50

Transport: BR: Guild Street

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Baldwin, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Cedric The Entertainer

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 89mins

Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York's Central Park Zoo. Boarding a rickety plane with ring-tailed lemur King Julien the 13th, his second-in-command Maurice and the penguins - Private, Rico, Skipper and Kowalski - the animals crash-land shy of their destination, ending up on the plains of Africa where Alex comes mane-to-mane with his long lost father Zuba.

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Subtitled) (PG) (Category: Cinemas, Family)

Vue, Aberdeen, 10 Shiprow, Aberdeen, Grampian, AB11 5BW

Tel: 0871 224 0240

Dates: 02/01/2009 to 08/01/2009

Show times: Tue 6.15

Price: £6.90, concs £4.30, family £17.20 & £18; Tue all tickets £4.50

Transport: BR: Guild Street

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath

Cast: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Baldwin, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Cedric The Entertainer

Year: 2008

Country: US

Running time: 89mins

Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the hypochondriac giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus are finally ready to leave the exotic island of Madagascar and return to the plush surroundings of New York's Central Park Zoo. Boarding a rickety plane with ring-tailed lemur King Julien the 13th, his second-in-command Maurice and the penguins - Private, Rico, Skipper and Kowalski - the animals crash-land shy of their destination, ending up on the plains of Africa where Alex comes mane-to-mane with his long lost father Zuba.

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