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Going Out

Visual Arts Martin Sastre: American As Wellthe Choice

Until Sat Mar 12, daily, 11am-6pm, Stills Gallery, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, free, 0131 622 6200 The international art market has a habit of alighting on a new bit of the globe every few years and declaring it a hip place, but how do artists from what was once thought of as the periphery hold on to the attention of a world with such a short attention span?

Don't Miss Natasha Bedingfield:Bold, Fresh-Faced and Oh so Hip, She's the Pop Poppet Who Brings Street Cred to Urbanitythe Choice

Sun Mar 6, 7pm, Carling Academy, 121 Eglinton Street, Glasgow, [pounds]12.50 (returns only), 0870 771 2000 Natasha Bedingfield was raised by crack addicts in a caravan by the Brooklyn River. She learned to kickbox at an early age to fight the water rats for scraps of wet bread. Her only means of making a living was to take part in rap-style battles with her cohabitees, who - unusually for crack addicts - kept copies of Byron, Shelley and Keats, along with some hip-hop beats. It was during the...

My Perfect Night Out Jeremy Hardya Pint and a Prayer with Madonna and Guy

6-7PM I join Sir Guy and Lady Madonna Cockney for prayers at the Belgravia Kaballah Centre. Religion satisfies the yearning for celebrities to find something within themselves when their looks start to go. 7-8PM We head to the Buddhist temple.

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Heartbreak Hotel Cinema Film of the Week

HOTEL RWANDA (12A) Dir: Terry George With: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix

The Guidescratch That and Sample Djs Fun Side Instead Lemon Jelly

Sat Mar 5, 7.30pm, Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, [pounds]16.50, 0131 228 1155 As the image above suggests, Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen aren't hot on showing their faces. While that might seem standoffish even in such a faceless genre, Lemon Jelly are a real warmbath duo. Everything they do is tinged with cosiness, some quaint in-joke or kitsch surprise. Their packaging is lovingly designed: they invite children to matinee performances, there are bingo, balloons and partybags for all....