[HDNG]THE CITY:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]E3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Price of a pint of beer: ú1.60 [BULL] Glass of wine: ú1.10[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Cinemas:[EBOLD] (1) The Cannon has 2 screens.[PARA][BOLD]Theatres:[EBOLD] (1) The Marlowe Theatre is the city's only permanent theatre although T S Eliot's verse play 'Murder in the Cathedral' was written for and first performed in Canterbury Cathedral.[PARA][BOLD]Pubs:[EBOLD] In some parts of Kent the air is thick with the [ITAL]cornflakey[EITAL] stink of hops and brewing. Not all this local brew gets transported out of the county and Canterbury is full of pubs that serve a [ITAL]mean [EITAL]brew or two. [ITAL]Testing the local tastes is a major student pastime. [EITAL][PUSH]push[EPUSH][ITAL]plugs: Locomotive (very friendly, tranquil); Three Compasses (packed, wild and brash); The Pilgrim (ú1 a pint on Sundays, ie very popular with students); Falstaff and Tap; Rose and Crown; Cherry Tree. The Man of Kent is for men of Kent, not students.[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Clubs/discos:[EBOLD] (2) [ITAL]Canterbury is not club city[EITAL]. The choice is between: (a) The Bizz Nightclub - [ITAL]Tracey/Wayne special [EITAL](b) The Works - the small, dark,[ITAL] more hip [EITAL]basement of the Bizz; or (c) [ITAL]an early night.[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Music venues:[EBOLD] Classical concerts are held in the Cathedral and the Marlowe Theatre, which also has folk music. For local bands and indie, there's the Penny Theatre. [ITAL]Otherwise, a trip to Metronome or Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone (over 14 miles) or Whitstable Labour Club (6 miles) is in order, but still mainly local bands.[EITAL][PARA][BOLD]Others: [EBOLD]Many students have to live as far away as Herne Bay and Whitstable between 5 and 7 miles away on the north coast of Kent. [ITAL]Neither are much more happening than Canterbury[EITAL].[HDNG]UNIVERSITY:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]E3[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Price of a pint of beer: ú1.30 [BULL] Glass of wine: 90p[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Bars:[EBOLD] (5) The bars aren't run by students or by the Union. Each college has its own bar: Eliot ([ITAL]big and spacious[EITAL]); Keynes ([ITAL]small and intimate[EITAL]); Darwin ([ITAL]small[EITAL]); Rutherford ([ITAL]big[EITAL]).[PARA][BOLD]Theatres:[EBOLD] The Gulbenkian Theatre on campus (cap 342) [ITAL]is very well equipped, but there's a price to be paid for that - it's not for the exclusive use of students. [EITAL] It plays host to many touring productions, the annual Canterbury Festival and concerts of all sorts. In the foyer there's an area for regular art exhibitions. [ITAL]However, drama in the University is of an Oscar-winning standard and has all the enthusiasm of a dog whose owner's holding a tin opener.[EITAL] The University has the largest drama department in the country and a new drama building. Students put on productions in makeshift theatres in the colleges when the Gulbenkian's booked.[PARA][BOLD]Cinemas:[EBOLD] (2) The University runs a Film Studies course and makes a point of showing art house pics (Naked, Life is Sweet) in the Cornwallis Lecture Theatre. These are twice a week, under the name of Cinema 3. The Union[ITAL] panders to a lower common denominator[EITAL] with showings of movies such as, recently, Made in America, Unforgiven, Beauty and the Beast.[PARA][BOLD]Clubs/discos and music venues:[EBOLD] Bops in the 3 of the 4 college bars (caps 130-300) and Junior Common Rooms (JCRs), held once a week in each, run by the Union and JCR committees. [ITAL] Indie music is popular, but there aren't any venues big enough to attract bands bigger than those who either are on their way to the charts (but haven't got there yet) or those that will never get there. What they lose in quality, they try to make up for in quantity -[EITAL] there's some kind of event in 1 of the colleges at least 4 times a week. All 4 JCRs are used as well as the colleges' dining halls (400-650).[PARA][BOLD]Recent band appearances:[EBOLD] The Frank and Walters, James Taylor Quartet.[PARA][BOLD]Cabaret: [EBOLD]2 funsters per term; recently, Doug Anthony Allstars, Stevie Starr.[HDNG]EATING OUT:[EHDNG][PARA]Students usually eat in the 4 college refectories, open most of the day. The SU provides cafes in the college JCRs. Local scoff shops are geared to the student and tourist trade and there are plentiful Indian, Italian, pizza, Chinese, French and vegetarian restaurants, as well as various fish'n'chip shops and other takeaways. [PUSH]push[EPUSH][ITAL]plug: Cafe des Amis, which, is, of course, Mexican.[EITAL] Students who need to stuff something down their throats late at night can resort to curries and kebabs but only until midnight. The Keynes Burger Bar on campus is open till 11.30pm.
