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Theatre Cover story: Eating & Drinking Guide
The List [5&0 Guide’s army of reviewers has spent this year eating in over 850 restaurants, cafés and bars to compile the 15th edition of the food bible. Every review is completely independent and, reflecting the vibrancy of the Scottish restaurant scene, there are more than 100 brand new entries. We also announce the winners of our annual awards. See guide and page 7.
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Features
18 Persepolis
James Mottram talks to Marjane Satrapi about the Iranian childhood which inspired Persepolis, her new film based on her graphic novels.
20 Nick Cave The Australian dark prince of rock‘n'roll confounds expectations again.
23 All the Fun of the Fair Claire Sawers picks out the highlights of the Big in Falkirk extravaganza.
26 Nova Scotia We meet John Byrne ahead of the fourth part of his S/ab Boys trilogy.
Regulars
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Eating & Drinking Guide Awards Tennent's Mutual
EIFF Opening Gala Glamour
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13 Live it
Spend it: Handbags for hire
Get out: Aerial dance classes Get Away: Beautiful Brighton Get Stuffed: Diary of a first-time restaurant owner
Monkeyinq Around at the Zoo 29 Ladyfest
Soma Skool
Janelle Brown 33
James Kelman Andrew Dummond
Brent Ghelfi
Comics 35 Triptych 36 High Tech SOul
MSTRKRFT
Laidback Luke
Jimmy Carr 43 Nick Doody P2 45
Private Property The Oxford Murders
Stop Loss
Joy Division
Persepolis
DVDs 65 Emperor's New Kilt 66
Events 8. shows
Gus Van Sant 67
Events
Vampire Weekend 68
Adele
Ulrich Schnauss
The Xcerts
Pendulum
Records 72 Jazz & Folk 86 Classical 90
The Drawer Boy 92
That Night Follows Day Elephant
Trumpets and Raspberries Magpie
Shrink Rap 99
The return of Heroes
Alasdair Gray 100 Jim Lambie
Kalup Linzy
Maternity
Recruitment 106
Courses 8. Tuition Property to Let
Flatshare
I Saw You
Win a Smirnoff Adventurer’s Kit 6 A bottle of Famous Grouse for
the Letter of the Issue 2 Win tickets to Piece of Havana 6 Win tickets to the World Ceilidh 6
Win tickets to see CSS and The Zutons 74 Win new Tindersticks album and posters 74
Win Fence tickets and goodies 79 Subscriptions so