Scottish Opera preview: The Lady From The Sea
THE librettist and composer of one of Scottish Opera’s four new works at the festival tell Kirstin Innes how Ibsen’s atmospherics launched a voyage of musical discoveryUNLIKE new plays, which seem to...
View ArticleKenny Farquharson: I’m a lover, not a fighter. And Lycra does nothing for me,...
THERE comes a moment in every man’s life when he has to decide what to do with his mid-life crisis.The more drastic answers to this dilemma involve a radical life change. Running away to Torremolinos...
View ArticleAndrew Eaton-Lewis: There’s little that’s adventurous in obediently following...
ABOUT seven years ago I wrote a fairly withering review of The Storr, a hugely ambitious art project by NVA in which audiences were led on an ambient light and sound journey up a mountain on Skye as...
View ArticleClaire Black: Let’s get disabled athletes on telly and billboards and...
FAR be it from me to complain about seeing David Beckham’s face. Or any bit of him actually. Those carefully plucked eyebrows. The tattoos. That cheeky smile. I make no apologies, I offer no defence,...
View ArticleWill the Dandy’s last-ever print edition spell the end for children’s comics?
COMIC fans everywhere are choking on their cow pies. Last week when it was announced that the Dandy, much-beloved home of Desperate Dan, Bananaman and friends was to stop its print edition in December...
View ArticleBrian Adcock Cartoon 20/08/12
Today . . .Frank Boyle is away, but you can still follow him on Twitter {http://twitter.com/boylecartoon|Twitter.com/boylecartoon|Go to Frank Boyle on Twitter}• Frank’s latest book Boyling Point 2 is...
View ArticleGary Mackay: Liverpool game is perfect tonic for all at Hearts
The guy I was with the game at on Saturday said to me at half-time: “This is really good.” And he was right. It was a really good game and Hearts were playing really well. At that point, two goals up...
View ArticleSpoken word reviews: Lucy Ayrton | Charlie Dupré | Mark Grist | Harry Baker |...
IN THE past, spoken-word artists on the Fringe were always faced with a dilemma: whether to list their shows in the comedy section of the programme, or in the theatre section. Lucy Ayrton: Lullabies to...
View ArticleMichael Weir: Every positive step can make us stronger
The early stages of a new season can often throw up some interesting results with players still trying to find their feet at this level. Hibs’ accumulation of points is the most important aspect to...
View ArticleInterview: Jean Sprackland, poet and writer
SHE used to live near a remote coastline in the north-west of England and what she found on the beaches there inspired a novel. Roger Cox talks to Jean Sprackland about her extraordinary projectA...
View ArticleJoyce Nicoll: care where it’s most needed appears to be in short supply
The stated aim of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) Bill is to increase the rights of familial carers to community care support and to give such carers and those they care for more autonomy in...
View ArticleHighland Council seeks public’s views on ways to save £12m in two years
HIGHLAND Council has launched a three-month public consultation in a bid to find ways to save £12million over the next two years.The local authority has projected a budget gap of almost £30million, but...
View ArticleNeil stevenson: Failing to comply with Olympic advertising legislation could...
If I happened to be advertising hamburgers, the hash-tags #Olympics #London #Summer #2012 #GoldMedals would lead me to be at risk of prosecution, under the widely reported Olympic brand protection...
View ArticleFour legal experts to plead their case at Festival of Politics panel game
The Law Society of Scotland event at this year’s Festival of Politics in the Scottish Parliament will invite the audience to pick its priority for protecting or developing Scots law.If not quite “I’m a...
View ArticleRadar weekly: Record labels on board for Paisley Underground
In this week’s Scottish music round-up: Record labels showcase their acts at Paisley industry event; Ian Rankin reveals thrilling line-up for Aberfeldy Festival; new music from The Unwinding Hours and...
View ArticleInterview: ‘We are living in a post-modern, self-referential world, where...
THERE are, they admit, three people in the marriage of writers Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. And the presence of police psychoanalyst Frieda Klein helps keep things really exciting, discovers Lee...
View Article‘The easiest argument in the world, and the most specious’ - David Robinson...
STYLE versus content in the novel: which is more important? Doesn’t your heart sink a little bit at the prospect of writers chewing over that one for a couple of hours? Won’t it be a bit like a solemn...
View ArticleMarkets: Another miner finds itself in a hole
MINER Xstrata was among the worst performers on Monday as its merger with Glencore looked increasingly unlikely to go ahead.The sovereign wealth fund of Qatar continued building its stake in Xstrata...
View ArticleCheap land is the key to rising profit for builder Bovis Homes
BOVIS Homes said on Monday that it was confident of continuing to reap the benefits of buying up cheap land since the housing market downturn as it reported a doubling in its first-half profits.Along...
View ArticleJohn Nicolson brings experience of a different kind of brew to Barr
BREWING industry veteran John Nicolson is to join the board of Irn-Bru maker AG Barr.The group also said that Jonathan Warburton had stepped down as a non-executive with immediate effect yesterday to...
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