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This month’s editorial reaches you from Beijing, where I’m currently on holiday. The Chinese capital is an intense mix of gloss and grime. There’s no Facebook or Twitter of course – the
Great Firewall of China prevents that – but there is Chinese micro-blog site Weibo. The state are moving to gain more information about, and more control over, Weibo’s users, but tracking opinions is only one concern. Tracking profits is another.
Skyscrapers go up at an astonishing rate. Tourguides point to office blocks and highways where important houses and monuments once stood. The speed of economic growth is visible daily and (cheap shot though it is) you can’t help think of Edinburgh’s stalled trams on their puny tracks. Progress comes at a cost, but the Party don’t half know how to get things done.
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EASTER DAYS OUT We present our top 10 suggestions for events happening around the country throughout the Easter break.
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BEST BREAKFASTS Whether you prefer coffee and croissants or bacon butties and Bru, you’ll find your perfect brekkie venue here.
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The Art Issue The GI is in town (with a solo show from this issue’s cover photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, his first in Glasgow since 1995), and we’ve set our sights on all things arty. Check out our 12-page art feature from page 14, including FOUND’s Unravel; our art-buyer’s guide on page 40; plus our GI coverage in the Visual Art section, starting on page 118.
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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE An interview with Paolo Sorrentino, director of the Sean Penn-starring washed-up rock star-slash-Nazi hunter drama.
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30 Food and Drink Reviews of new Edinburgh eatery Steak and Glasgow’s Bruadar.
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Around Town Edinburgh Intl Science Festival Little Birds Market It’s Funtime!
Books
Iain Banks Peter Carey Mark Millar Clubs
Pin-up Nights Above & Beyond Qabalala Comedy
Lee Camp Daniel Sloss Film
Paolo Sorrentino interview Wild Bill Iron Sky This Must be the Place Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
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CBeebies Live
LGBT Uh Huh Her
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Graham Coxon Florence and the Machine Sinead O Connor Records Jazz & Folk Classical
Theatre
A Streetcar Named Desire For Once Alegria Tightrope King Lear
Visual Art Emory Douglas Wolfgang Tillmans George Wyllie – Thursday Alison Turnbull
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