Contents
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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