Contents 4 – 18 MARCH
Around Town
International Women’s Day 29
Museum of Transport closes Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
StAnza Poetry Festival 32
Jonathan Safran Foer Joe Hill Don Delillo Beatrice Collin
Autechre Jungle Nation Tiësto Kode 9
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Martin Scorsese and Sam Fuller 43
Exit Through the Gift Shop Alice in Wonderland Shutter Island Chloe Case 39 DVDs 56
Glasgow Comedy Festival listings 57
Chris Addison If I Was a Mouse . . .
Events
LGBT Arts Festival
Events Memory Tapes
The XX Dialogues Festival/Braw Gigs SNJO with John Scofield Dag For Dag Frightened Rabbit Yeasayer Records Jazz & Folk Classical
tfd Medea The Beauty Queen of Leenane Wuthering Heights Clutter Keeps Company The Government Inspector
Diane Arbus Alexis Marguerite Teplin Martin Creed Peter Liversidge
Recruitment I Saw You Flatshare Classified Courses and Tuition
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Features 20 Stewart Lee Smart, controversial, abravise and now popular, Stewart Lee prepares for his Glasgow International Comedy Festival show.
24 National Review of Live Art The challenging festival reaches its 30th year. 26 Louise Welsh A visit to the seedier side of life in her latest novel.
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Regulars 2 First Word Dan Rhodes: ‘grumpy, miserly and evasive’ apparently.
7 Noticeboard The Tron’s Mayfesto programme lights up spring. 10 Get Stuffed New flavours at Glasgow’s first Abyssinian restaurant.