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Dark matters

Misery loves company, they say, but with Scott Hutchison it appears it's company that loves his misery.
Barflies, The Barony Bar, Edinburgh

Site-specific maestros Grid Iron scored a major hit when they knitted together three booze and sex-soaked short stories by Charles Bukowski in the company's local in 2009.
NME Awards Tour, 02 Academy, Glasgow

With remarkable timing, Azealia Banks secured the top placing in last year's NME Cool List shortly before being named the opening act on the magazine's annual tour.

Foam-filled comeback is simply animal magic

The Muppets (U)
Chiller thriller hits the spot

The Woman in Black (12A)
Cronenberg has the power of mind over matter

A Dangerous Method (15)
Why gothic horror is a wizard idea

DECISIONS, decisions. Daniel Radcliffe, the actor previously known as Harry Potter, has been making some major ones lately.
Giving poetry a sense of theatre

When Shabina Aslam took up her post as artistic director of Ankur Productions last summer, she knew she had a tough act to follow.

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Foam-filled comeback is simply animal magic

The Muppets (U)
Why gothic horror is a wizard idea

DECISIONS, decisions. Daniel Radcliffe, the actor previously known as Harry Potter, has been making some major ones...
Chiller thriller hits the spot

The Woman in Black (12A)

Cronenberg has the power of mind over matter

A Dangerous Method (15)
Robert Pattinson heads from Twilight to darkness in Bel Ami

'There are lots of attractive women in the film," says Robert Pattinson of his latest screen release, Bel Ami.
Carnage (15), Martha Marcy May Marlene (15) - Sunday Herald view

Roman Polanski may not be known for comedy; his last, Pirates, was 25 years ago and hardly a bundle of laughs.
GFF: On The Ice - Sunday Herald view

On The Ice
GFF: This Is Not A Film - Sunday Herald view

This Is Not A Film

Barflies, The Barony Bar, Edinburgh

Site-specific maestros Grid Iron scored a major hit when they knitted together three booze and sex-soaked short...
Lovesong, Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

A week before Valentine's Day and anyone who's lost faith in the power of everlasting true love should be sent on a...
Giving poetry a sense of theatre

When Shabina Aslam took up her post as artistic director of Ankur Productions last summer, she knew she had a tough...

It all adds up: Three is the magic number

It is just as they are convening over coffee to talk – they being Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Boyce,...
Born To Run, Oran Mor, Glasgow

Gary McNair's drama has nothing to do with Bruce Springsteen's rock'n'roll anthem about two lovers dreaming of...
It's a coming of age

Age becomes Sian Phillips.
UCS 40th Anniversary Celebrations, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow

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There's a bit of me that will cry if Scottish independence happens

HE was born in Belfast, but Michael Boyd, the lauded – and now departing – artistic director of one of...

Dark matters

Misery loves company, they say, but with Scott Hutchison it appears it's company that loves his misery.
NME Awards Tour, 02 Academy, Glasgow

With remarkable timing, Azealia Banks secured the top placing in last year's NME Cool List shortly before being...
Tune in to the fresh sound of Meadow

Tore Brunborg is so busy these days he hadn't realised tonight's concert with Meadow is the first of two visits to...

Nada Surf, King Tut's, Glasgow

It can be hard for support bands to make an impression.
Young Traditional Musician of the Year, City Hall, Glasgow

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Rachel Sermanni, St Andrews In the Square, Glasgow

It was fitting that one of the last Celtic Connections 2012 concerts should have been reserved for a performer who...
omar sosA, old fruitmarket, Glasgow Absorbed in magic

THERE was a curious, unintentional parallel between trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf's opening set on this, his Glasgow...
blues of the world, o2 abc, glasgow

THE blues is no respecter of birthplace, residence or bloodline and as this wide-ranging programme served to...

Never to be a drab four

The Edinburgh Quartet is changing.
A teacher who’s learned some life lessons

James Dillon describes his childhood as a contradiction.
The tricky matter of striking just the right note

It has been more than half a century since High Fidelity magazine ran its most infamous, most inflammatorily...

The electric conductor

Rumour has it Robin Ticciati doesn'tâ€‚like interviews.
EIF to recognise at last the musical tapestry of the shadowless woman

With three performances of Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Richard Strauss's sprawling symbolic fairy tale about a woman...
The art of composing

I am late.
Quiet hero Andy deserves the applause

It's exactly six months since I was contacted out of the blue by Andy Saunders, a freelance French horn player whom...
Heading off in a new direction

WE have much to learn about Peter Oundjian, music director-designate of the RSNO, who will take up his new post at...

Anna Barriball adds another dimension to her art

28 January 2012

Anna Barriball's art comes from the marks she industriously "traces" from the everyday surfaces she chooses to...
A man of the people

27 January 2012

David Shrigley, I hazard the notion, seems a little young to be having a retrospective.
Bringing art to the lives of the people

25 January 2012

Glasgow's Third Eye Centre had huge influence over the city's arts scene.

Allan Sekula: Ship Of Fools, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

21 January 2012

In this second instalment in Stills' Social Documents programme, American artist Allan Sekula shows two...
Jane And Louise Wilson, Dundee Contemporary Arts

13 January 2012

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1967, Jane and Louise Wilson have been working together ever since they submitted...
George Wyllie: 90 years old and as influential as ever

31 December 2011

Exactly 90 years ago today, George Ralston Wyllie was born in Shettleston, Glasgow; the first of Andrew and Harriet...
Birds of a feather

30 December 2011

HIS drawings and paintings capture birds in the wildest of wild habitat, and it is drawing from life that won Tim...
Portrait of a true genius

30 December 2011

Britain dumbing down?