Aimee Mann
MUSIC
Thu 14 Jul Doing that singer/songwriter thing differently isn’t easy but Mann makes it look like a doddle, as new album The Forgotten Arm shows. See page 66. Carling Academy, Glasgow.
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Tropial Malady
FILM
Sun 17 Jul Bonkers
Thai fantasy from the director of 2002‘s excellent Blissful/y Yours. It plays out like a low budget gay version of Apocalypse Now. See page 47. Fi/mhouse, Edinburgh.
Gauquln's Vision VISUAL ART Tue 19 Jul Impressionism is dead — long live visionary women. Gauguin's painting provides the centrepiece to this exhibition. See page 89. Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh.
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Yes Man
BOOKS
Mon 18 Jul The man who helped Dave Gorman become the comedic legend he is today gets his own forum of nonsense with a book about going through life and never saying no. See
Punishment Park
FILM
Wed 20 Jul Peter
Watkins' brilliant and unbelievably overlooked 1971 pseudo documentary about US punishment parks set up during the Nixon administration to persecute radicals. See page 44. GET, Glasgow.
Festival
FILM
Fri 15 Jul Annie Griffin‘s
wickedly funny and rude
Nashville-style satire of
the Edinburgh Fringe and all the dysfunctional human beings who surround it. See page 24 Selected release.
COMICS
Sat 16 Jul Timely
repackaging of this quintessential Batman story from the masterful pen of Frank Miller. See page 34. DC Comics.
Beslan TV
Thu 21 Jul The harrowing tale of the school siege which ended in the deaths of almost 400 people is given the full inside story treatment. You'll feel angry and sad at the same time. See page 88. Channel 4.
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