Art review: Susan Philipsz: Timeline | Andrew Miller: The Waiting Place
IN Old Calton Burial Ground last week a group of us stood quietly waiting for the One O’clock Gun with the Scottish artist Susan Philipsz. Susan Philipsz: Timeline/ Andrew Miller: The Waiting Place/...
View ArticleFilm review: Undefeated
THE winner of this year’s Academy Award for best documentary sounds pretty resistible since a) it’s yet another movie about an underdog sports team, and b) they play American football, where men in...
View ArticleIFA of the Year: IFAs called to the starting blocks
In investment terms, a year is virtually a sprint. In IFA of the Year terms, it will feel like a marathon. For those going for gold in our latest competition, launching today, the next 12 months will...
View ArticleTV review: Sex Stories: Fifty Shades Of Grey | The Dark: Nature’s Nighttime...
TRULY, we live in a global village. And sometimes it seems like we’re stuck inside the global village’s only fetish club. Sex Stories: Fifty Shades Of Grey Channel 4, Sunday, 10pmThe Dark: Nature’s...
View ArticleFestival reviews: Still Life: An Audience With Henrietta Moraes | Fat
OVER the next few Edinburgh weeks, a lot of people are going to spend a lot of time looking at other people. In turn, those people will spend a lot of time pretending to be people they are not. Still...
View ArticleOil and gas put pressure on Aberdeen offices
DEMAND for office space across Scotland has risen strongly so far this year, with new figures showing rents for prime accommodation in Aberdeen may rise above their current record highs.Property...
View ArticleInterview: Fringe stalwart Bill Paterson
Fringe stalwart Bill Paterson is anxious that the profound questions posed by his two-hander on terminal illness should reach a larger audience, he tells Jackie McGloneWITH his “worried, wee face”,...
View ArticleFestival preview: Macbeth
With its themes of greed and power, the 13 Macbeths at this year’s festival are testament to the Scottish play’s timely relevance, whether set in the Middle East or on Inchcolm Island, writes Tim...
View ArticleFilm reviews: The best if the new cinema releases
Patricio Guzmán’s astonishing documentary about Chile’s Atacama desert, one of the best places to see the stars but also the site of some brutal atrocities.Nostalgia for the Light (12A)****Featuring...
View ArticleIFA of the Year: Introducing the five entrants taking this year’s challenge
Nicola Ellis: A 2003 graduate in Economics from Glasgow University, Ellis worked in several temporary administrative posts with investment management companies Aegon Asset Management and...
View ArticleBook review: The Devil I Know by Claire Kilroy
A WRITER must be either exceptionally ambitious or exceptionally astute to preface their latest novel with an epigraph from James Joyce’s labyrinthine, polyphonic last novel Finnegans Wake. A WRITER...
View ArticlePlaytime is over at Glendale Toy Museum
THE Glendale Toy Museum is sited right on Skye’s stark and lunar edge, and within its walls one phrase is to be heard more than any other: “Oh, we used to have one of those…” Being here is like...
View ArticleJeff Salway: An absolute scandal in the making
THE history of market investment is littered with lessons from which we have failed to learn. That failure comes at a price, as investors invariably discover when they fail to heed the warning signs....
View ArticleFestival preview: The Blanks, Gilded Balloon Teviot
TV fame will lure the crowds to the a capella sensation from Scrubs, but they’re cooler – and more dangerous – in the flesh, writes Kate CopstickTHERE are four Blanks. There is Famous Blank – Sam...
View ArticleMarket watch: Prudential pinning hopes on Asia operation
ANOTHER stellar performance in Asia is likely to reignite speculation that insurance giant Prudential will uproot from the UK to the Far East.The UK’s biggest insurer is expected, on Friday, to report...
View ArticleIFA of the Year: Competitors need to focus on big picture
Financial advisers ideally have just one person in mind as they go about their work – their client. The IFA of the Year competition adds a new dimension, however, as they will ultimately be judged by...
View ArticleFestival comedy reviews: God-In-A-Bag | Billy The Mime | Men Of Character
DR GEORGE Ryegold is one of comedy’s gloriously appalling monsters. This year, George’s alter ego Toby Williams has written him a play.George Ryegold’s God-In-A-Bag/Billy The Mime/Men Of...
View ArticleDirector dealings: Marketing trio raise holdings
A TREND by major companies to move away from mass-market direct mailings to more personalised communications is benefiting marketing specialist Communisis.Operating profits rose 22 per cent to £4.4...
View ArticleBook review: A Traveller In Two Worlds Vol 2: The Tinker And The Student by...
THERE’S an inevitable romance about the life of Duncan Williamson, probably the only other figure to rival Hamish Henderson in the annals of the Scottish folk movement, and a hero to several...
View ArticleFestival preview: Gilbert & Sullivan in Brief(s)
It’s taken a besotted American to cut Gilbert and Sullivan down to size, writes Kate Copstick‘It is my secret shame,” says Ray Cullom of his lifelong fascination with Gilbert and Sullivan. “It started...
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