This is no ordinary podcast.

It is the TODcast.

Time Out Dubai’s weekly broadcast of the best things to do and see this week.

We’ve teamed up with Dubai Eye 103.8 to  pick out some of the most exciting shows, concerts and parties happening accross the city.

Highlights this week include music lessons from the world’s best drummer, the Valentine’s week of love and Santana performing in Dubai.

 

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Thanks again to DJs Jeff Price and Suzanne Radford.

I’m always baffled when I hear people moaning and groaning about the Shopping Festival.

If it was just about shopping then, maybe, they’d have a point.

But there really is much more to it than that.

Art Avenue, bungee jumping and the amazing fireworks over the Creek at weekends are all well worth a visit.

As is the Pepsi Sports Fiesta.

Somebody just suggested it to me and it is the sort of event I think will be a lot of fun.

Darting between stores isn’t the only exercise you can do during Dubai Shopping Festival.

The Pepsi Sports Fiesta is made up of two major sports - basketball and football - and is being held over three weeks at Safa Park, daily from 3pm until February 23.

The tournaments are open to ‘ballers of all ages, whether you want to form your own team or just go and watch after school, work or jogging on the bouncy path round the park in the evening or at the weekend.

If all that physical activity wasn’t enough, there is also live entertainment, competitions and prizes from Nike and Wild Wadi.

Lose pounds, don’t spend Dirhams and strap on those shin pads and visit the event online here.

Taste of Dubai was the festival of food we all hoped it would be.

Despite a worrying lack of homegrown or Emirati talent it was an opportunity to sample some of the finest foods in the city.

Time Out’s food editor, James Brennan, was on site to sample the best the event had to offer.

He picked out ten favourite dishes from the show. Continue reading … ‘The best of Taste of Dubai’

Time Out has teamed up with Jeff Price and Suzanne Radford from Dubai Eye 103.8FM to talk about the week’s entertainment highlights in Dubai.

 

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Scrumptious cakes, romantic poetry and the World egg-holding record.

Tiesto is to dance music what Tiger Woods is to golf, Elton John is to piano pop or Antony Worrall Thompson is to bearded celebrity chefs.

He is, in short, a legend.

A record bag full of awards, a live performance at the Sydney Olympics and a Reebok shoe named after him attest to that.

What’s more he is going to be putting the Madinat Arena under his trance next week.

If the name alone isn’t enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, check out this video and they will probably start dancing.

Time Out has blagged three pairs of free tickets and we are giving them away to dance-loving readers. Click here to be in with a chance to win.