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The guide to events in central Scotland

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Eating and Drinking Guide

We’ve been stuffing ourselves silly for the last couple of months, eating our way around more than 800 restaurants to deliver the latest edition of our best selling guide. For you, dear reader, it’s free.

Letters on the queen mum, Glasgow Fabulous and Billy Bragg . . . waiting-staff miss out on tips . . . soap operas run out of steam . . . how to spot a classy restaurant . . . top ten . . .

Features 12 Panic Room David Fincher persuades leading lights, from Sigourney Weaver to Jodie Foster, to perform gruesome acts on film. So what’s his secret?

14 Czech Film Festival Europe‘s most beautiful city has a legacy of stunning films. But is Prague still

producing the goods?

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Thursday 25 Apr Thursday 9 May 2002

16 Idlewild With their single earning heavy radio rotation and their stunning third album round the corner. Edinburgh's noisiest

bookworms welcome us into their home.

20 tl'ipTYCh As the three-day festival of musical riches kicks off. we talk to Teenage Fanclub, Luke Slater and the Cinematic

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I Events

26 Film 80 Film index 88 Film listings

44 Music

48 Rock 8 Pop listings

55 Jazz listings

57 Folk 8 World listings

59 Classical 8 Opera listings

61 Theatre 85 Theatre 8 Dance listings

68 Comedy 88 Comedy listings

70 Gay 70 Gay listings

74 Clubs 75 Clubs listings 86 Venues

87 Art 89 Gallery listings

95 Kids 97 Glasgow Life 99 Edinburgh Life

I The Goods

101 Buy it this fortnight 102 Books

105 Comics

108 Records

108 Games

109 Internet

109 Video/DVD

1 10 TV

112 Food 8 Drink

1 16 Shopping

I Classified

118 Recruitment 121 Flatshare 123 I Saw You

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