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TV Black Mirror PM-porking satire from bard of the ascerbic Charlie Brooker.

THEATRE Sleeping Beauty Ayrshire panto overshadowed by cast member’s criminal charges. Oh no he didn’t!

FILM The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Already looking forward to Edinburgh- set sequel, The Girl with the Military Tattoo.

MUSIC Kelly Rowland Insert lame ‘lacks the X factor’ joke here.

MUSIC/FILM Sigur Ros Ros man Jonsi’s ace new album + another screening of Inni = more reasons to go to Iceland.

FILM The Lady Biopic of Burmese politician, as told by the director of The Fifth Element.

THEATRE A Christmas Carol A good, deep Dickens.

WeLike The things making our world just that little bit better

OK, we can’t lie. We didn’t much like Justin Bieber’s Christmas album. Or his reggae-lite attempts to lure us ‘Under the Mistletoe’. (Check out our album review on page 96 for evidence of the dislike.) But when it comes to J-Beebie’s ability to look uncannily like a string of teenage girls now that, that we like. Behold! A stream of ‘Biebians’ (jury’s still out on the catchiness of that particular label) on the blog Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber, all channelling the teen heart- throb’s signature look with an array of baseball caps and

horizontal fringe hairstyles.

Elsewhere on the internet, we’ve been keeping an eye on the newly moved-in giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo. It seems that while the rest of us preoccupy ourselves with worries about their ability to breed, Tian Tian and Yang Guang who both made the nine-hour flight from China

over to Scotland at the start of December are evidently more interested in blogging than snogging. Their Twitter account @edinburghpandas is full of links to articles in the New Scientist, or rumours of a #pandacam being installed sometime in the future, and shows their priority at the moment is definitely going digital, rather than getting physical.

NEXT ISSUE Wednesday 4 January

PREVIEW OF 2012 We’ve barely wiped 2011 off our feet and its time to look ahead at what 2012 will bring. If it’s going to make a splash in the ocean of arts and culture which we consider our own personal paddling pool, in the coming 12 months, you’ll find out about it here. NOEL FIELDING He’s a Madcap Shambleton, a modern dandy, a visual artist and consistently the best thing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He might even be (whisper it) Old Gregg. We have a chat with the multi- talented and undoubtedly fantastic Mr Fielding.

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