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Entrading café

Entrading café

5 Feb 2009

Situated in the heart of the busy business district of Glasgow is a café and shop that some might find a bit of a surprise. Entrading is a combined high street eco-store and café. Like high street shops, drinking and eating in our city centres have…

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

5 Feb 2009

‘What we wanted to do with Lost Girls was to come up with a different form of pornography. We realised we had the ideas for something enormous and wonderful.’ Alan Moore, who’s widely considered to be the finest writer working in comics today and is…

Educating Rita

Educating Rita

5 Feb 2009

REVIVAL If there’s a consistent thread that runs through the work of Willy Russell, it’s the need for escape, usually from a stagnant class system that oppresses his protagonists. Yet his work is more nuanced, less moralistic than you might expect.

Valentine’s Day entrepreneurs

Valentine’s Day entrepreneurs

5 Feb 2009

Michelle Aaron, cupcake baker from Glasgow Everybody loves to see a cupcake. If I’m selling them at a craft fair, people always stop and smile. I guess they evoke childhood memories and look fun. All that sticky frosting and sweet indulgence – there’s…

Films for Valentine’s Day

Films for Valentine’s Day

5 Feb 2009

If you want to go and see a film with your beloved this Valentine’s Day you can chose between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s lovely 1945 Highland flit I Know Where I’m Going, a couple of Audrey Hepburn films (Funny Face and Sabrina) and four…

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

(3 stars)5 Feb 2009

MYSTERY/ROMANCE What would it be like to live in reverse? Born as an old man only to die as an infant, the Benjamin Button character created by F Scott Fitzgerald in his 1922 short-story gets the full ‘prestige picture’ treatment in David Fincher’s…

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

5 Feb 2009

COMIC BALLET A company’s name usually offers pertinent information about who they are and what they do. Aside from the word ‘ballet’, however, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo tells you very little about the delights in store. For one thing…

Karla Black - Material world

Karla Black - Material world

(3 stars)5 Feb 2009

REVIEW SCULPTURE The perfect storm of grease, dust and cotton wool towelled onto the floor and hanging from ceiling tiles that forms the bulk of Karla Black’s show is something of an assault to eyes not used to squalor. The natural urge is to tidy…

Donna Wilson: Escape to the Woods

Donna Wilson: Escape to the Woods

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

REVIEW TEXTILES The line between art and crafts is too often blurred – mostly by aspirational types who mistake the satisfaction of making something by hand for a personal statement that can then be transferred to the viewer. Yet, in some cases…

The Good The Bad The Weird

The Good The Bad The Weird

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

WESTERN/ACTION Gifted South Korean filmmaker Kim Ji-woon takes on Sergio Leone’s greatest western and (unbelievably) emerges victorious. It’s the 1930s in the desert wilderness of Japanese colonised Chinese Manchuria and three treasure hunters are in…

Balkanarama

Balkanarama

5 Feb 2009

Balkan nights of gypsy jazz mashed with folk and klezmar tunes are always riotous affairs. This month Balkanarama have live music from Black Cat and Jani Lang Band as well as Balkan beats DJ DD (from Turin), all topped off with Hungary’s Kalam Balogh.

Sex in the 21st century

Sex in the 21st century

5 Feb 2009

By now, you must have heard of Feuchtgebiete, the debut novel by 30 year old television presenter Charlotte Roche, routinely described in interviews as ‘Germany’s Davina McCall’. You know, the one that the press are up in arms about. The one with the 18…

Comedy of Errors

Armando Iannucci - Comedy of Errors

5 Feb 2009

Armando Iannucci has a ringing in his ears. He’s just back from the Sundance Film Festival in the States where his debut feature film as writer and director, In the Loop, had its world premiere. The film’s reception was so overwhelmingly positive that…

Tricky

Tricky

5 Feb 2009

Tricky is difficult and moody, right? That’s the perception of the Bristol-born rapper that still persists, 14 years after he was launched into the nation’s musical consciousness with his startling, groundbreaking and bestselling debut…

Sex in the 21st century - Rude Britannia

Sex in the 21st century - Rude Britannia

5 Feb 2009

The Scots are at it like rabbits. 10,000 Scots go dogging every year. I’d find people at it on a Monday night in East Kilbride, next to a landfill site. Or we’d drive up some country lane and spot a white bottom moving up and down, lit by the light from…

Beirut/Realpeople - March of the Zapotec/Holland

Beirut/Realpeople - March of the Zapotec/Holland

(4 stars)5 Feb 2009

FOLK/ELECTRONICA Ever since he quietly elbowed his way onto the 2006 end of year polls of several critical organs with debut Gulag Orkestra, there’s been intrigue surrounding Zack Condon and his peculiar combination of Eastern European party music…

Black Watch

Black Watch

(3 stars)5 Feb 2009

(18) 154min (John Williams Productions DVD retail) FILMED THEATRE There can be little doubt about the power of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an international hit for Scottish theatre unparalleled for a decade. Its story of a…

Sex in the 21st century - Alternative Valentine’s

Sex in the 21st century - Alternative Valentine’s

5 Feb 2009

‘Hello, is it me you’re looking for …?’ Some of the most romantic words ever written have come via the medium of song, so why not throw caution to the wind, and go all Sonny and Cher this February. Book you and yours into a recording studio for an hour…

Sex in the 21st century - Valentine’s Day Clubs

Sex in the 21st century - Valentine’s Day Clubs

5 Feb 2009

With Valentine’s Day landing at the weekend this year, there is ample opportunity for those hoping for a love injection on the dance floor Love will be in the air like a tropical smog on 14 February, and every club and bar you walk into will be playing…

Russell Brand

Russell Brand

5 Feb 2009

STAND-UP With Jonathan Ross back on the box and Russell Brand returning to our stages with the merest of minor tabloid outrage, it seems that the Sachsgate furore has at last subsided. Some Radio 2 heads may have rolled but the key characters can now…

Glasgow Film Festival: Audrey Hepburn

5 Feb 2009

The Film Star Allison Gardner co-director of Glasgow Film Festival Although she’s remembered best as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Audrey wasn’t just a ‘fluff’ actress. She has great depth, and always wanted to stretch herself as an…

Glasgow Film Festival: Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey interview

Glasgow Film Festival: Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey interview

5 Feb 2009

Film directors Richard Jobson and Jim Hickey both have low-budget genre films appearing as part of Glasgow Film Festival’s Great Scots strand. Jobson’s New Town Killers sees Dougray Scott’s hedge fund manager hunting a teenage boy in a white-knuckle…

Glasgow Film Festival: Jason Edwards interview

Glasgow Film Festival: Jason Edwards interview

5 Feb 2009

It’s hard to pick which event will be best – they’re all going to be pretty epic. We want to attract people who are not necessarily into live gigs but might like going to the cinema, and vice versa. Shhhh! An Evening of Not So Silent Movies is a…

Glasgow Film Festival: Short Films

Glasgow Film Festival: Short Films

5 Feb 2009

A highlight of last year’s programme was the short films strand, so it’s great to discover local shorts showcasers the Magic Lantern offering another varied programme for 2009. Things kick off with True Things, a retrospective of shorts from…

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Comedies

Glasgow Film Festival: Recommended Comedies

5 Feb 2009

Hamlet 2 Bad taste high school comedy starring the multi-talented Mr Steve Coogan. Cineworld, Sun 15 Feb, 7pm & Mon 16 Feb, 2.30pm. Lake Tahoe Deadpan and occasionally whimsical Mexican comedy from Fernando Duck Season Eimbecke.

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