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Cover story: Save our indie shops! We don't know if you've heard, but there's a recession on, and small independent traders are typically the first and worst hit. Channeling the spirit of the Blitz, the community-minded souls at The List have put together an ll-page guide celebrating the diverse and utterly unique range of independent, locally-run shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Use 'em or lose ‘em, folks.

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Sons and Daughters, Drums of Death, The Fall, Jeffrey Lewis, Metronomy. Simian Mobile Disco, Micachu and the Shapes, Fangs and over 100 other acts? All in one weekend? All on the same bi/f? Well, sort of. David Pollock

gets a backstage pass for an exciting, innovative and

fantastically-programmed new city- centric music festival hoping to fill the void created in our lives when

Triptych shut up shop.

Regulars

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Chirpy comic Chris Addison on wine, the Wii and The Wire

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Campaign to save the Clerk Street

Odeon

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Get Stuffed: Ahead of our annual Eating 8. Drinking Guide (coming next issue), Donald Reid reviews the year in food in Glasgow and

Edinburgh

Around Town

Remembering the poll tax riots

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Drugs in the movies

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Kids

Science Festival Special

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LG BT

Look Mummy, I'm Dancing

Events

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Homegame

The Spet ials Basement Jaxx Camera Ohscura Calvin Harris

Fent e Hornegame Scottish Giiitar Quartet Records

Jazz & Folk

Classical

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Theatre

Copenhagen

Cirgue (lu Soleil Wuthering Heights Junk Ensemble Interiors

Scottish Ballet

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Visual Art

Phil Collins

Two Horizons Paul ‘r‘i’underlich Stage Fright

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