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Thursday 14 - Thursday 28 Feb 2002

The guide to events in central Scotland

The Free Letters on comedy. snowboarding and record shops . . . theatres get £3.5m . . . is text messaging killing the language? . . . new film studio for Glasgow . . . celebrity kleptomaniacs ...topten...

Features

10 Monster

What drove the eighteen-year—old Mary Shelley to dream up Frankenstein? Janice Galloway and Sally Beamish have the answers.

12 Cate Blanchett The woman who’s in every film going tells us why she was drawn to an ‘exceptional human being’ in Charlotte Gray.

16 Irvine Welsh

After charting the lives of junkies, dog murderers and bent cops. the logical next step for the prophet of Auld Reekie was . . . a musical.

18 Daniel Kitson Why the heir to the Johnny Vegas comedy crown loves it when the audience walks out.

20 Princess Superstar She wants to be the feminist answer to Eminem. Which must be why she keeps removing her clothes.

20 Tickets to see Princess Superstar live 33 400 tickets for A Beautiful Mind with Russell Crowe 77 Top club discounts with the A-List card

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0FFERS

87 Flexi-passes and drink for the New Territories festival

I Events

22 Film

26 Film index

38 Film listings

44 Music

48 Rock & Pop listings

52 Jazz listings

53 Folk & World listings

54 Classical & Opera listings I 56 Theatre ' 60 Theatre & Dance listings

64 Comedy 64 Comedy listings

66 Gay 67 Gay listings

69 Clubs 70 Clubs listings 79 Venues

80 Art 83 Gallery listings

89 Kids 91 Glasgow Life 93 Edinburgh Life

I The Goods 95 Hear it this issue 96 Books

100 Comics

100 Records

102 Games

103 Internet

103 Video/DVD

104 TV

106 Shopping

108 Food

I Classified

1 10 Recruitment 1 13 Flatshare 116 I Saw You

Rear view 120 Phil Kay & John Fardell

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