Top Five for Kids: Bond’s Baddies

Explore the fiendish world of 007’s antagonists with dressing-up and a whole range of espionage-themed art activities

Autumn Stage Choice

The best shows from The Mighty Boosh to Rain Man promise laughs and tears, too - especially if you don’t book quickly

Top Five Clubs: Prom Night

Heather and Duckie host one of their occasional celebrations of 1980s nuggets, John Hughes movie classics and air guitar anthems

Top Films in Rep: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam’s take on Hunter S. Thompson’s cult classic of Seventies gonzo journalism, at Prince Charles Cinema

The 20 best films to see this autumn

Our pick of the new season’s crop, from Bush satire W to Bond's Quantum of Solace, Brideshead Revisited and beyond

The best exhibitions of the autumn

From the work of one of the world’s best-known portrait photographers, Annie Leibowitz, to sculptures and installations

Top Opera: Carmen

The Dutch mezzo Tania Kross isn’t the most subtle or profound Carmen, but the sheer in-your-face physicality is gripping

Top Dance: Place Prize

Annual competition pitting established artists against up-and-coming choreographers, at The Place

Top Five Gigs: De La Soul

The last two nights from the original psychedelic upstate New York hip-hop collective, ending their Camden residency

Autumn Sounds Choice

In the absence of a summer, live music makes this the year’s hottest season. Our pick of the new season’s crop

Top Five Theatre: The Shadowmaster

Stephanie Sinclaire’s adaptation, with music, of Dear Brutus, one of Barrie’s most haunting mixes of fairytale and reality

Top Five Jazz: Tom Scott & Paulette Williams

Ultra-smooth saxophone solos, with vocals by the singer who paid her dues with the likes of Quincy Jones and Luther Vandross

Top Five Comedy: Jeremy Hardy

The Perrier Award-winning comic and Radio 4 regular brings his sharp-witted stand-up out on tour again, at Hazlitt Theatre

Top Events: Watch This Space

The UK’s longest outdoor festival, celebrating its 10th birthday this year. Includes theatre, music, dance and film

Curtain up on autumn arts

In September British culture springs back to life after the summer slumber. Book now, says Richard Morrison

Top Classical: On Wenlock Edge

Vaughan Williams's impassioned setting of Housman poems, sung in this recital by Mark Padmore with the Nash Ensemble

Top Museums: Unspeakable

Artwork from the 1940s to the present day by artists responding to the Holocaust and survivors relating their experiences

Top Five Galleries: Forever 27

Striking photographs of rock musicians who died aged 27, including Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones

Top Five Jazz: Polar Bear

Improv meets electronica on the outer fringes as the cult 'post-jazz' band continues to win converts, at Roundhouse

Top Five Galleries: London Through a Lens

Archival photographs of the capital including images of the 1928 flood, a group of Daleks and the Kray Twins