Contents 15 – 29 APRIL
Around Town
A Better Way to Work 31
Made in the Shade Springtime Jamboree Northern Streams: Hoots Man Alive!
Books
Clubs Film
Comedy
Kids LGBT
Music
Rupert Thomson Gavin Bain Alessandro Gallenzi Joanne Limburg Stona Fitch
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Departure Lounge 37
Confusion is Sex Kate Simko Sandwell District
Nightwatching 44
The Ghost Dogtooth No Greater Love Repo Man Life During Wartime DVDs
Lucy Porter TV comedies
Mish Gorecki
Events
Union Canal Events
LCD Soundsystem
Fuck Buttons Wooden Shjips Mark Lanegan Factory Floor Mammal The Drums Records Jazz & Folk Classical Peter Pan
The Cherry Orchard The Glass Menagerie A microfestival by Forest Fringe Les Miserables The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Confrontation Joseph Beuys Jenny Holzer Axolotl spring exhibition
Recruitment I Saw You Flatshare Classified Courses and Tuition
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Cover story: Green Living It’s time to trowel up! The Listis going green for two issues on the trot, offering helpful hints, tips and interviews to encourage readers to take up a greener lifestyle. This issue we’re on patrol with the recycling police, making the most of Glasgow’s meadows, upcycling our old jumpers and dishing out plenty of good eco-advice, starting on page 14. Features 20 Douglas Gordon Mark Cousins speaks to Glasgow’s own Douglas Gordon ahead of his appearance at Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
Theatre
Visual Art Classified
26 Optimo With the Sunday night institution coming to an end, David Pollock speaks to JD Twitch about thirteen years of good times. Offers
EXCLUSIVE DOUGLAS GORDON COVER Subscribers have, this issue, received an alternative magazine cover image, selected for The List by Douglas Gordon. The image is adapted from a video piece produced by Gordon for Rufus Wainwright’s current world tour.
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