Contents 27 AUGUST 10 SEPTEMBER

Around Town

Books

Clubs

Comedy Film

Kids LGBT

Music

Glasgay! Film Festival reviewed 17

Fair Trade on the Fringe Bletherheads

Richard Williams 20

Valerie Martin Charlie Higson Eleanor Catton Nexion Musika/Xplicit

Electric Frog Twisted & Brainfire Alter Ego Bruce Devlin

Non-Festival comedy listings

Joseph Gordon Levitt The Hurt Locker Mesrine: Public Enemy No 1 Funny People Broken Embraces (500) Days of Summer DVDs

The best events

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Glasgay! Film Festival reviewed 17

Events

The Pastels/Tenniscoats 42

Fleet Foxes Vetiver Tori Amos Belle Orchestre Terry Reid Noah & The Whale Records Jazz & Folk Classical

Theatre

The Cherry Orchard Non-Festival theatre listings

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Cover story: Autumn movie special It’s an auteur special this fortnight. Miles Fielder talks to Pedro Almodovar about his long-running career, and his (handily rhyming) muse Penelope Cruz, and to Terry Gilliam about Heath Ledger’s last stand, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. Elsewhere, we preview the best of the season’s upcoming movies, from Sherlock Holmesto The Fantastic Mr Fox. In our Festival magazine 65 Douglas Coupland The original Gen X-er comes to the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his new work, Generation A

82 Michael Clark A portrait of the legendary choreographer as a middle-aged man, by the people who know him best

Regulars 2 First Word Crime writer Jeffery Deaver on Bordeaux wine and big bruises 7 Noticeboard Nick Cave: novelist, and the campaign to save Otago Lane.

6 Live It Eat: Donald Reid swaps his critic’s pen for a waiter’s pad to spend a day working in Glasgow’s Cafezique

Visual Art

Lili Reynaud-Dewar 54

Non-Festival exhibition listings

Classified Offers

Recruitment 108

Courses & Tuition I Saw You How Did You Get That Job? Property Reader Offers

Win dinner for two at Michael Caines Win a mixed case of BrewDog Beers Learn from the chefs at Two Fat Ladies A bottle of The Black Grouse for the Letter of the Issue

Subscriptions

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