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“04round-up

Ever wondered what it would feel like to be stranded on an island?”

06upfront

If you find yourself walking through town this month

and inexplicably starting to giggle to yourself, you will probably put it down to a funny pigeon you just saw, or a friend’s hilarious status update on Facebook. Wrong, stroker: April has more comedy in the air than pollen, five pages of it in fact. Six if Boy George counts

22-23beauty+fashion

Two sections coming together as one here this month,

both showing off their pulchritude and sartorial aheadness by sitting in a darkened cinema and watching Alice In Wonderland. Did Lewis Carroll ever dream how his writing would influence young ladies to dress themselves, almost 150 years on?

24sport

“The Premier League is clearly the dream of any

Championship side.” Never thought of it that way before? This might be the page for you then

26travel

A haven for the weary worker is where Buzz’s knapsack falls this month. No, we’re not talking about Milford Haven! This is the Bluestone Resort in Pembrokeshire, and it’s waiting for your toil-gnarled hands to wearily lift the phone and dial the number

28film

Not a blockbuster month for films, April, but Kieron

Self is hardly going to fazed by that. Also there’s that film Drew Barrymore is directing, about rollerderby. If I was on a rollerderby team my name would be Rachel Holly Waugh. Just thought I’d share that with you

30food&drink

A national newspaper has mentioned some cafes from this part of the workld. I for one am pretty excited! Feel famous by proxy. Likewise when my friend texted me from the Welsh Curry Awards (see page 32) bragging that he was there and I wasn’t

38previews

Page 38: a huge wet blanket liable to attract the

attention of sheep. Page 44: The Temper Trap. Yep, this month’s selection of previews has something for everyone

46reviews

Take an ex-editor of the Cardiff University student newspaper, add someone with the initials PJ and a couple of potty-trained reviewers and what do you get? Something like Reviews, where Little My get into a rather grimy toilet cubicle with Kids In Glass Houses and end up being thrown out of the nightclub

50listings

A lot of people think that this section is just page

after page of painfully small text telling you about yoga classes and high street nightclubs with offers on blue WKD. These people are idiots. There is also a big picture of a trad-folk band sitting next to a knackered shed, an interview with a Caerdydd actress who “hang[s] out with struggling artists and musicians,” and a Lady Gaga review by the mysterious ‘Ollie’

70competitions

Never in the field of human conflict has the word “tickets” been used so many times on one page. Also a plus one into any gig in Buffalo, which is a bit like a ticket, but you have to imagine it

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