Thursday 9 Wednesday 15 August 2001

The only comprehensive guide to the Edinburgh festivals

Festival Sections

20 Books

20 Jenny Colgan 20 Pater Carey

24 Comedy

24 Rhona Cameron 24 Nicholas Parsons

37 Dance

37 Shinla 37 In Situ

39 Tears of the Black Tiger 41 Roman Coppola 42 Werner Herzog

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The Front

This week's top twenty Fringe shows . . . magic in the scud . . . clubbing in a van . . . The Li'st’s Festival party . . . Lou Dalgleish’s favourite Elvis Costello songs

45 The Trojans 45 Die Zauberflbte

52 Theatre

52 Office 52 Novecento

74 Art

74 Ed Ruscha 75 Jeff Koons

Features

10 Amélie It’s the movie they‘ve been going mad about in France and it's set to be the first hit of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It also makes a mighty fine cover for The List.

83 J. Magik

12 Jon Ronson We sneak into the humorist’s Islington home and discover he’s nearly as paranoid as the New World Orderists he‘s been tracking.

Festival view

88 Andrew Collins on his journey from NME to the stage, and John Fardell with

another festival dream 14 The Avalanches Their

sampladelic album was the unexpected dance hit of the summer. And their live appearance at T on the Fringe will be more unexpected still.

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