Contents 27 AUGUST – 10 SEPTEMBER
Around Town
Books
Clubs
Comedy Film
Kids LGBT
Music
Glasgay! Film Festival reviewed 17
Fair Trade on the Fringe Bletherheads
Richard Williams 20
Valerie Martin Charlie Higson Eleanor Catton Nexion Musika/Xplicit
Electric Frog Twisted & Brainfire Alter Ego Bruce Devlin
Non-Festival comedy listings
Joseph Gordon Levitt The Hurt Locker Mesrine: Public Enemy No 1 Funny People Broken Embraces (500) Days of Summer DVDs
The best events
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31 41
Glasgay! Film Festival reviewed 17
Events
The Pastels/Tenniscoats 42
Fleet Foxes Vetiver Tori Amos Belle Orchestre Terry Reid Noah & The Whale Records Jazz & Folk Classical
Theatre
The Cherry Orchard Non-Festival theatre listings
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Cover story: Autumn movie special It’s an auteur special this fortnight. Miles Fielder talks to Pedro Almodovar about his long-running career, and his (handily rhyming) muse Penelope Cruz, and to Terry Gilliam about Heath Ledger’s last stand, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Elsewhere, we preview the best of the season’s upcoming movies, from Sherlock Holmesto The Fantastic Mr Fox. In our Festival magazine 65 Douglas Coupland The original Gen X-er comes to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his new work, Generation A
82 Michael Clark A portrait of the legendary choreographer as a middle-aged man, by the people who know him best
Regulars 2 First Word Crime writer Jeffery Deaver on Bordeaux wine and big bruises 7 Noticeboard Nick Cave: novelist, and the campaign to save Otago Lane.
6 Live It Eat: Donald Reid swaps his critic’s pen for a waiter’s pad to spend a day working in Glasgow’s Cafezique
Visual Art
Lili Reynaud-Dewar 54
Non-Festival exhibition listings
Classified Offers
Recruitment 108
Courses & Tuition I Saw You How Did You Get That Job? Property Reader Offers
Win dinner for two at Michael Caines Win a mixed case of BrewDog Beers Learn from the chefs at Two Fat Ladies A bottle of The Black Grouse for the Letter of the Issue
Subscriptions
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