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The five most important moments for digital music
7 Oct 2009
Napster starts it all In 1999 Napster became first music file-sharing service to make digital downloading a viable, and illegal, option for finding new music. The end came in 2001 after a law suit from the Record Industry Association of America…
The Blessings: Exclusive LuckyMe DJ Mix
7 Oct 2009
A mix of the best of the LuckyMe collective, exclusively available as a free download from List.co.uk. Featuring Hudson Mohawke, Mike Slott, RKGB, Lunice and more. God bless The Blessings. The LuckyMe co-founders Dom Sum and Fine Art, together known as…
Campaigning For Falkirk's Park Gallery
5 Oct 2009
Helping the building fight for its survival
The Park Gallery is something of an art institution. Located in a stable block at Falkirk’s Callendar Park, the gallery is best known for its edgy, contemporary, thought-provoking work by local, national and international artists. So last month’s…
New National Gallery Restaurant Opens Its Doors
5 Oct 2009
Good news for Scottish food and culture buffs
Art lovers have exciting news to nibble on, following the National Gallery of Scotland’s announcement of its collaboration with Victor and Carina Contini, the team behind popular George Street eaterie Centotre. The new look Scottish Café and Restaurant…
One Thousand Paper Cranes
5 Oct 2009
Bringing the magic of origami to the stage
An actor preparing for a role has to do many things, but learning origami isn’t usually one of them. Alongside the usual checklist of remembering lines and researching characters, however, the performers in One Thousand Paper Cranes also had to turn…
An Argument About Sex
5 Oct 2009
An audacious conceit that lacks thematic focus
This site-specific production springs from an audacious conceit: an updating of 18th century playwright Pierre de Marivaux’s comedy La Dispute, framed within a topical argument. Was the severity of the economic downturn down to inherently male…
Side Dishes
5 Oct 2009
More foody going-ons
The BBC Good Food Show Scotland, now in its third year, will be at the SECC in Glasgow from Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November. Alongside the usual array of big-name cooking demos, there’s a strong showing from smaller local producers including…
Glasgow East End: Shopping
5 Oct 2009
The area's top shops
Often forgotten when it comes to retail therapy, shopping in the East End may well involve a bit more walking, but the results will certainly be fruitful. Pop into Brigitte for a spot of vintage heaven – designer cocktail dresses galore at…
The Holly and the Ivy
5 Oct 2009
50s British melodrama
Although it’s by no means a classic, this British melodrama from 1952 provides an interesting snapshot of domestic life in postwar Blighty. Taking place over Christmas in rural Norfolk, it revolves around a family gathering at the vicarage of the…
We Like...
5 Oct 2009
Batman and smart-arse comedy
This week some of us are suffering knuckle-ache and eye-strain from having spent a whole weekend playing the new Batman game. An excited section of List HQ is boldly declaring it ‘the best superhero game ever’ and muttering things about graphics and…
Halloween II
5 Oct 2009
Rob Zombie's sequel to his remake
Rob Zombie makes his own sequel to his own remake of the horror classic where he puts putrid flesh on the bones (and gives him a mother. What?) of that ultimate senseless killing machine Michael Myers. A potentially pointless exercise in some ways…
Zombieland
5 Oct 2009
Surviving a world overrun by zombies
Zombieland is pitched somewhere between From Dusk Till Dawn and Anchor Man with a nod of the stetson to George A Romero’s zombie flicks. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin are four disparate characters hell-bent on…
Couples Retreat
5 Oct 2009
Daft slapstick and a smearing of schmaltz
Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn are all grown up since Swingers and are now here, buddying it up as a part of four couples who hit their 40s and end up mistakenly entering into a compulsory couples therapy retreat on a luxury island resort. Cue lots of…
Ong-Bak: The Beginning
5 Oct 2009
Action packed tale of revenge
Master martial arts star Tony Jaa shows his chops in considerable style – a style that has found him compared favourably to Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li – in this action packed tale of an orphan brought up by a gang of thieves who trains to avenge…
Love Happens
5 Oct 2009
Muddled, befuddled rom-com mess
Jennifer Aniston adds more fuel to the fire that she’s a one hit wonder with this muddled, befuddled not very rom and not very com mess with Aaron Eckart. The nonsensical title (‘love happens?’ Is that equivocal to ‘shit happens’?) should be enough to…
The Creek
5 Oct 2009
Formulaic no-budget horror
Formulaic no-budget horror in which a group of friends are forced to reunite by their dead friend’s ghost. They return to the scene of his death but strangely start being offed, one by one.
Music In The Digital Age
2 Oct 2009
Technology's impact on the artform
To paraphrase the Creme Egg adverts, when it comes to music, how do you hear yours? Streaming over the internet? Nicking stuff from torrents on the web? A bag full of goodies from Fopp? Crates of obscure vinyl from your local specialist…
Music Websites
2 Oct 2009
Where to go to find great new music
The Hype Machine (www.hypem.com) An oldie but a goodie. Trawl blogs from around the world here, stream new bands and normally stumble across tons of fresh remixes. Set aside a long skive break, as it can get quite distracting. (Claire Sawers…
Carol Ann Duffy
2 Oct 2009
Taking a look at her kids poems, moon verse and a tale of a Christmas cheer
The appointment of Carol Ann Duffy as Poet Laureate was always going to raise eyebrows and temperatures among certain elements of the literary establishment and seamier side of the media. In this writer, there is a spirit of rebellion and…
First Word: David Shrigley
2 Oct 2009
The artist talks about 80s music, pumpkins, and the joys of being tall
First record you ever bought ‘Einstein A Go-Go’ by Landscape on 7” single. It was a big hit in 1981. Last time you were chatted up Most of the time I don’t even realise I’m being chatted up – so it could have been recently. First film you…
Benedict Allen interview
2 Oct 2009
Talking with the TV adventurer before his lecture tour of Scotland
Having a conversation with Benedict Allen is what I imagine chatting to Indiana Jones is like. After all, not many people, when telling you what they did in the year after university, will suddenly, cheerfully diverge into the following anecdote…
Glasgow's Revitalised East End
2 Oct 2009
Nicola Paul discovers the area's new lease of cultural life
Once a major industrial centre, Glasgow’s East End has long been associated with deprivation. Now, thanks to a cultural boom, the East End is giving the other parts of the city a run for their money. The area is home to some long-standing Glaswegian…
Alternative Christmas Dinners
2 Oct 2009
Why not turf out the turkey and can the cranberry?
Tang’s This Christmas Tang’s restaurant on Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh is offering customers Japanese winter dishes shabu-shabu and sukiyaki, both cooked and eaten at the table fondue-style in a hot pot. Shabu-shabu has Konbu dashi stock, often…
DVD Round-up: Horror
2 Oct 2009
The films that want to make you scream
Sexy Killer, Dr Chopper, Mr Halloween, Staunton Hill, Smash Cut, Death of a Ghost Hunter, The Books of Blood, Wasting Away, I Sell the Dead, Rogue
Glasgow East End: Eating & Drinking
2 Oct 2009
Our top restaurants and cafes
Tapa A hugely popular organic bakehouse that has had even the most hardcore WEndies flocking over to Dennistoun. The menu is littered with a mouth-watering array of homemade chutneys and organic cheeses, while the bread and cakes baked on the premises…
