There's nothing Lenny Kravitz likes more than rocking like it's 1969. No, wait, he also likes designing chandeliers, so much so that he recently set up his own furniture and interior design company. Well, a guy's gotta have interests other than payin
g second-hand homage to Hendrix. He's in Glasgow tonight, punting new album Is It Time For A Love Revolution?
• O2 Academy, Glasgow, 0844 477 2000
FILM: JOE DANTE, IN PERSONThe man who brought us Gremlins is one of the more fascinating film-makers to have arrived in Hollywood on that first post-Jaws/pre-multiplex blockbuster wave. His 1980s films – Piranha, The Howling, Explorers – embody but also subvert the spirit of 1950s B-movies, thanks to Dante's 1960s radicalism and the kind of energy found in the cartoons of Tex Avery. Dante discusses his life and career at the Edinburgh International Film Festival tonight.
• Cineworld, Edinburgh, 6pm, 0131-623 8030
MUSIC: UNION OF KNIVESIntense, gloomy electronica from this Glasgow band, who share a record label with KT Tunstall but whose music is more in the spirit of Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead. Support comes from the wonderfully named Ming Ming and the Ching Chings.
• King Tut's, Glasgow, 8:30pm, 0141-221 5279
FILM: THE HURT LOCKERStrange Days director Kathryn Bigelow has been lying low for years, so it's good to report that this thriller about a bomb disposal unit is not only one of her strongest films, but a movie about Iraq that's actually worth watching. There's another chance to see it tonight at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
• Cineworld, Edinburgh, 9:15pm, 0131-623 8030
OPERA: COSI FAN TUTTEDavid McVicar has hit the nail on the head with Scottish Opera's new Mozart production, fixing the action around 1900, when European society revelled in social duplicity. The chorus lurks under the stage, like a ghostly spiritual conscience. But what sets the show apart is the explosive tonal world created by the orchestra.
• Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 7:15pm, 0131-529 6000
THEATRE: PEER GYNT
Final chance to see this revival of Dundee Rep and the National Theatre of Scotland's widely acclaimed, award-winning adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play, first staged in Dundee in 2007, as it concludes its Scottish tour with a week-long run in Glasgow. Gerry Mulgrew stars and Dominic Hill directs.
• Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 7:30pm, 0870 060 6647
FILM: THE HANGOVERTodd Phillips returns to the form he exhibited in the endearing Old School with this film about a stag party gone wrong. Three friends suffering from drug- and alcohol-induced memory loss try to piece together a night of carnage that has left them with a tiger in their bathroom and a baby in their closet.
• Cinemas nationwide. Listings
VISUAL ART: EDVARD MUNCH, PRINTSEdvard Munch is Norway's most famous son and his picture of The Scream one of the most familiar works in all modern art. He's best known as a painter, but this show focuses on his printmaking and includes a lithograph of his most iconic image.
• Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow, 9:30am to 5pm, 0141-330 5431
THEATRE: BALGAY HILLSimon Macallum's tentative but thoughtful show, approaching its final weekend, pays tribute to the life and legacy of Dundee rock star Billy Mackenzie, lead singer of charismatic 1980s band the Associates, through intertwined monologues that explore the impact of his music on four Dundee characters.
• Dundee Rep, 7:30pm, 01382-223530
VISUAL ART: GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART MFA DEGREE SHOW Final few chances to see the work by the latest graduates from the course that brought us Simon Starling, Claire Barclay, Rosalind Nashashibi, Martin Boyce and numerous other success stories in the world of Scottish contemporary art.
• Tramway, Glasgow, 10am-5pm, 0845 330 3501
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