Issue 651

Twin Peaks complete series released on DVD - Mark Frost interview - complete transcript

To mark release of the Twin Peaks: Definitive Gold DVD Box Set, Murray Robertson interviews the seminal TV series’ co-creator and producer Mark Frost. This is the complete unedited transcript of the interview.

Glasgow’s Aye Write literary festival - Louise Welsh interview

Ahead of her appearance at Glasgow’s Aye Write! literary festival, crime fiction master Louise Welsh tells Claire Sawers about the dark side of the English Lit department in her latest novel

If I Was a Mouse I Would Hide in Your Hood

The myth that creating work for children is the easy option may have been busted years ago, but clearly not everybody got the memo. Musician, composer and presenter Paul Rissman is a leading light in the field of children and young people’s music, and…

Five reasons to go and see Four Tet

1: He knows a good collaboration when he sees one Whether performing with improvisational jazz drummer Steve Reid, collaborating with dubstep wonderboy Burial, making B-sides for Radiohead or remixing Nathan Fake, Boom Bip or Matthew Dear, Hebden’s…

The Coveted Mag guide to Glasgow fashion

Our indispensable guide brings you the treats, the trends and the stomping grounds you can’t afford to miss – from vintage fashion dens to cutting-edge Scottish designers. First up, Sarah Graham, editor in chief of online fashion bible Coveted Mag…

International Women’s Day

‘IT’S really about stepping back and understanding someone else’s plight,’ explains Edinburgh IWD organiser Jenna Sapiano, as she describes the aim of the capital’s contribution to International Women’s Day, taking place in the city this month. Now…

The fashion trends coming your way in 2010

As London and New York catwalks roll out the good, the bad and the strange, we bring you some of the looks – and the look-the-other-ways – for the coming season Knee high socks Yeah, yeah we know: you aren’t five anymore and the pigtails are long…

Fashion forward

When Carrie Bradshaw is donning your wares in Sex and the City, it’s fair to assume you’re on your way. For Holly Fulton the rise and rise of her fashion fortunes seemed inevitable. A darling of the Scottish fashion scene, last year saw the former ECA…

Why the return of corsets marks the return of the significant figure

Anyone who saw Christina Hendricks sizzle off the page, bosom heaving, on the cover of New Yorker magazine recently, should not be surprised to hear that corsets are back in vogue. Once firmly ensconced in the realms of burlesque fashion, they are…

Northern Ballet Theatre's Wuthering Heights comes to Edinburgh

There are no shortage of love affairs in the annals of English literature, but few burn with the passion of Cathy and Heathcliff. The tragic hero and heroine of Emily Brontë’s 19th century novel Wuthering Heights have been lifted from page to stage and…

Dialogues Festival and Braw Gigs

Edinburgh’s experimental music scene has thrived over the last ten years, thanks to several low-level organisations who have kept the faith, from Dialogues’ annual festival of electronic sounds to Cowgate-based music and film festival…

New Glasgow drum & bass night Jungle Nation to hit Stereo

With the demise of Pangea, a rather large gap in Glasgow’s drum & bass scene looks set to be filled with the launch of Jungle Nation, which has been running for 13 years in Aberdeen. ‘We have been looking to do something in Glasgow for a while but the…

Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals

(Hamish Hamilton) Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book – a thoughtful and vigorously researched survey of US farming practices – may seem at odds with his previous works, but there are striking similarities. Like his lauded novels, Everything is…

Peter Liversidge: The Thrill Of It All

Liversidge has built up a reputation on the back of his ‘proposals’ for artworks and this latest exhibition is a series written for, and realised at, the Ingleby. His suggestions to the gallery’s owners range from the tangible (proposing to paint the…

The City

A woman meets a writer she admires at a train station and is thrilled to be invited for coffee with him; her husband, meanwhile, has recently lost his job and is confused about his wife’s coldness towards him; a nurse who lives nearby turns up on their…

Why Edinburgh design duo Soda Kitsch are ones to watch

Taking their inspiration from vintage wallpaper and 60s and 70s fashion, design duo Soda Kitsch – aka Edinburgh-based designers Ashley Jessiman and Ian Dunlop – are making their mark accessorising with style. We meet them

The Government Inspector

The prescience of Gogol’s comedy of political corruption, avarice and ineptness goes without saying. What’s remarkable about Communicado’s revival of The Government Inspector is that it manages to be riotously funny and entertaining while never losing…

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play is one of those unsettling works that leads its audience down one path, and then gleefully turns our expectations upside-down. The milieu of the play, being set in the dingy kitchen of a house in a west of Ireland rural…

Chloe

(15) 96min Does this sound familiar? A middle-aged gynaecologist Catherine (Julianne Moore), worried that she may no longer be desirable to her flirtatious music professor husband David (Liam Neeson), decides to pay a prostitute Chloe (Amanda…

Glasgow T-shirt designer Thomas Wilson

If fortune does favour the brave, then 2010 might just be T-shirt designer and newbie Glasgow entrepreneur Thomas Wilson’s year

Four To Buy: Scottish T-Shirts

Gillian Kyle Who would have thought that a loaf of Scottish Pride would be a fashion statement? You could opt for one of her lovely Tunnocks teacake tote bags, but in terms of impact, it has to be the bread every time. £22 from…

Glasgow's Museum of Transport closes its doors

For those who know and love it, the Museum of Transport is part of Glasgow’s grand design. A delightfully cavernous home to a colourful cornucopia of trams, trains, cars, ships and carriages from across the ages, the city’s much-loved attraction, as is…

Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Here at List Towers, we love a party. And so it is that this fortnight sees not one but two of our favourite things realised courtesy of Scandinavian fashion house Kakao by K and tea-boutique Eteaket. As part of a one-off special event, Kakao will…

Ondine

(12A) 104min Irish trawlerman Syracuse (Colin Farrell) discovers a beautiful woman trapped in his fishing nets and offers her sanctuary. Writer and filmmaker Neil Jordan’s first original screenplay in over a decade carries echoes of his 1984 fantasy…

Fence Homegame 2010

You know you’re in safe hands when Fence Records are involved. And Fife’s weirdy, folky, lo-fi, indie, little bit electronic-y collective are once again taking over every gig space they can cram a stage into across Anstruther this year with a line-up…