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THE YES OR NO GUIDE TO THE MONTH AHEAD

FILM The Raid Indo-Welsh action film kick- assery.

TV 2 Broke Girls Brooklyn-set, unfunny, brash US sitcommery.

DANCE A Streetcar Named Desire Scottish Ballet deliver a fresh work of powerful, dramatic ballettery.

THEATRE Could You Please Look Into the Camera Unconvincing and under-rehearsed Arab Springery.

MUSIC PAWS Ragged Glaswegian DIY garage pop-rockery.

FILM The Lucky One Mawkish Zac Efron-as-war veteran implausibilitery.

TV The Bridge Great Danish crime dramaramary.

WEATHER Wet summer What can we say. Completely un-summery.

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As we gear up for the annual cultural onslaught that is the Fringe (programme out 31 May, keen beans), we like second-guessing this year’s Fringe lazy zeitgeist-grabbing show topics, as beloved by student musical groups, ‘ironic’ (read: lazy) stand-ups and other people who had 20 minutes left to fill in the form before the deadline. So far, the lucky money at List us too late for us to include a similar category in the 19th List Eating & Drinking Guide, but the elves are already at work adapting our database . . .

HQ is on: panda sex, Downton- inspired stick-a- flapper- dress-on-it period

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Next we must draw your attention to the wonderful facility provided by pubcats.com an online service to help you find your nearest pub with a resident feline. Sadly, this news reached

Finally, we’ve been loving Jarvis Cocker’s Wireless Nights shows on BBC Radio 4, in which the lanky bearded one prowls the UK under cover of darkness, meeting all sorts of oddballs who only come out at night. Hear the last in the series at 11pm on Thu 26 Apr, or catch up online.

NEXT ISSUE Wednesday 23 May

SUMMER FESTIVALS At last, the long wintry months are behind us we can finally slap on the sun cream, strip to our skimpies and . . . well, maybe not, but we can still go crazy in a field for a few days. Next issue we look forward to the likes of T in the Park, RockNess, Wickerman and all the rest. MACBETH Before JK Rowling conjured up Voldemort, there was another fictional figure whose name was unmentionable in certain circles. National Theatre of Scotland is reviving The Scottish Play in June, with Alan Cumming taking the lead role read all about it in our next issue.

128 THE LIST 26 Apr–24 May 2012