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Why is a famous heterosexual love story the centrepiece of this year’s Glasgay? 11 Oct 2012 | 01:27 pm
It’s all about context, festival director Steven Thomson tells Mark Fisher
Ten books that stand to be best-sellers this Christmas 11 Oct 2012 | 01:24 pm
TODAY, if you haven’t noticed already, is Super Thursday – the day on which publishers release their biggest, brightest hopes for Christmas bestsellerdom. What that emphatically doesn’t mean is that o...
Theatre reviews: Haunting Julia | Remember You Are Beauty Full | The Man Who Had All the Luck 11 Oct 2012 | 12:56 pm
THREE plays all explore how human failings engender a need to look to angels, ghosts and other superstitions for answers to life’s questions
Ruth Wishart: For many women, Savile-gate is a reminder of the grubby little world we used to live in 11 Oct 2012 | 12:54 pm
For many women, Savile-gate is a reminder of the grubby little world we used to live in, writes Ruth Wishart
Images of Scotland: Gullane, East Lothian 11 Oct 2012 | 06:57 am
THIS photograph of waves breaking near the shore at Gullane in East Lothian was taken by Susan Cook.
Interview: Django Django on the making of their debut record 11 Oct 2012 | 04:00 am
DJANGO Django’s exhilarating, eclectic debut album is like a whole Mercury Prize shortlist crammed into one record. Ahead of two homecoming gigs , they tell Fiona Shepherd how it all came together.
Film review: On the Road (15) 11 Oct 2012 | 04:00 am
ON THE Road is one of those literary adaptations that has been on the go for so long any sense of anticipation or dread surrounding who was going to bring it to life on the big screen has all but dimi...
Folk, jazz etc: Tommy takes riches passed down by the Duke out to the nation 11 Oct 2012 | 04:00 am
TOMMY Smith never met Duke Ellington. The legendary pianist, composer and band-leader, who drew no distinction between jazz and so-called “art” music, died in 1974, but Scottish saxophonist Smith did ...
Interview: Nicky Spence on his appearance in a steampunk version of The Magic Flute 11 Oct 2012 | 04:00 am
A populist, steampunk Zauberflöte will give Nicky Spence a chance to really prove his credentials as a serious opera star
Preview: The London Film Festival 11 Oct 2012 | 04:00 am
AS THE London Film festival opens, two films celebrate the way nonconformity and strangeness eventually become the mainstream, writes Alistair Harkness.
