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Lynne Truss

A Certain Age (Profile Books)

(5 stars)12 Feb 2007

MONOLOGUES The word ‘monologue’ conjures up two possibilities. The first is a droning, nondescript, shadowed face. The other is some heavily made-up and overly dramatic individual, unconcerned with masking anything, and most likely shouting. Taken…

Brian Azzarello & Eduardo Risso

100 Bullets: Decayed (Vertigo/Titan)

(4 stars)12 Feb 2007

CRIME Now possibly three-quarters of the way into this cracking crime drama (this tenth volume collects issues 68 through 75 of what’s perhaps going to be a double dead-eye 100), it’s clear just what an enormously impressive feat of writing 100…

Harvey Pekar

Ego and Hubris (Ballantine Books)

(4 stars)12 Feb 2007

BIOGRAPHY/LIFE STORY Meet Michael Malice - childhood immigrant, dreamer, short-ass and egotist. In some ways he’s just another mildly schizophrenic man, raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, but to Pekar (the graphic novel’s greatest navel gazer) he is…

Pirates!

Arrr, Jim Lad!

12 Feb 2007

Filthy, rum-soaked blaggards prone to shaving people’s chests with rusty razors they might be, but there’s something romantic about pirates, salt air and the lure of the high seas that keeps us Hooked. Robert Louis Stevenson created the granddaddy of…

Cold War Kids

Barrowland, Glasgow, Sat 3 Feb

(4 stars)12 Feb 2007

ROCK Instead of nipping over to the UK to establish a reputation that can be built on back home, as so many American bands do, you sense California-based quartet Cold War Kids won’t need any such fix to win over their country folk. Having skimmed…

Sophistifunk

12 Feb 2007

John Hutchinson (Tokyoblu) has been in charge at Sophistifunk over the last three years. A party week in week out with its mix of funky house, disco, electro, accessible remixes and mash-ups. However on Saturday 17 February they up the glamour and glitz…

Spirit Catcher

12 Feb 2007

Belgian duo Jean Vanesse and Thomas Sohet (AKA Spirit Catcher) are putting in a live set at Subculture this fortnight. Vanesse grew up in a world of music, as his father was a sound engineer, moving to electronic production in his early teens, while…

Marcus Oakley: That and This

12 Feb 2007

London-based Oakley draws inspiration from a wide range of sources including ‘the wonderful and melodic music of the Beach Boys’ and has worked with the Guardian, Levis, Channel 4 and The New York Times. His retro illustrations hark back to supposedly…

Working Drawing

12 Feb 2007

An exhibition of drawings and work on paper, which demonstrates the breadth of work being generated within, and at the fringes of, Glasgow’s artistic community. Exhibitors from Hope Street Studios, Southside Studios and Wasps show work alongside a wide…

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