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Cover story: Days Out Special Daffodils, exposed ankles and Easter eggs in shops - it can mean only one thing - spring has officially sprung. We help kickstart your Easter holiday celebrations in our bumper guide to getting out, with some top ideas for kids and adults on activities, parks and places to see. See page 18.
Features
14 Reliqulous
When Borat director and Seinfeld writer Larry Charles decided to make an irreverent, probing satire about organised religion, feathers were bound to be ruffled. Alistair Harkness meets the man to find out more.
16 Behaviour
It's a theatre festival, but not as we know it. Kirstin Innes meets The Arches' artistic director Jackie Wylie to discuss Behaviour, a new interactive, genre blurring, creative extravaganza.
Regulars
7 Noticeboard
Edinburgh International Festival programme launch, plus updates on The 48 Hour Film Project and The Outsider
10 Live it
Get Stuffed: Eating out at Crabshakk and the best local delis Spend It: Customising vintage clothes on a budget
April Fool's Festival 29
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Mark Radcliffe 32
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Comics 33
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Al Murray 41 Phil Nicol
Joseph H Lewis 43
Religulous
The Boat That Rocked Tony Manero
Let the Right One In Fifty Dead Men Walking | Love You, Man
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Neil Clements 87
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