CONTENTS Agenda
16 - 30 March 2 LETTERS
4 15 DAYS TO LIVE 7 NEWS
8 NEWS EXTRA 10 RACE!
12 THE LEECH
What'sOn
31 AROUND TOWN 34 BOOKS
37 CLUBS
43 COMEDY
47 FILM 50 DVD
63 GAY 65 KIDS
66 MUSIC 69 RECORDS
84 THEATRE 92 TV 93 VISUAL ART
99 BUY A HOUSE THERE THIS FORTNIGHT 101 EAT & DRINK
102 WORK
Cover story: How to buy a house
When you’ve never owned a house before, the idea of borrowing money that you’ll be paying back for the rest of your working life sounds horrendoust daunting. Isn’t it just a great capitalist trick to keep us slaving at the coal face? Maybe, but the fact is that buying property just gets more and more popular — and prices are being pushed ever further ‘04 CLASS'F'ED out of young people’s reach. Despite the difficulties, it is still possible to
find affordable flats and houses in Glasgow and Edinburgh. We canvased the opinions of solicitors and estate agents in both cities, and . .. . , . . 128 ANSWER MACHINE: Identified eight hotspots where you re most likely to find somewhere you MARK STEEL can afford. Find out where to look, which experts to consult, and how to AND FINALLY . . . go about buying a home, starting on page 17. C C O I)'.I)il‘,"~:’.} I), I'm I 3', I 3’2 E A[ (i (I . Also In this issue Intuiwd'tll"lt 1 1 Natalie Portman V for Vendetta may be a disaster of a f“; film. but its leading actor Natalie Portman’s hairstyle that's got U: irlthl'I Hdiffjrffv‘fi ’ (l .r ()l;flf$(j();2’(;l ll(;E 43 Reginald D Hunter One of the funniest men in stand-up tit 25... cm \ takes on the Glasgow Comedy Festi\.al. I' I“) R5 UTJ’fLfitfiflPU 47 Spike Lee He's approaching his 50th birthday and he's gust in; 01.1' m pan;- made his 20th film. Lee tells us how he manages to keep on rolrang. .58“ gm “,5,
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