Monthly Archives: February 2016
The Crucible – a strange and awful chapter in history
‘I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history.’ So wrote Arthur Miller of his play The Crucible, the dramatized and partially fictionalised story of the … Continue reading
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Two More Hits from Picture Kelpies
The Picture Kelpies must be the best thing to come along in Scottish publishing this century. Floris have assembled a sensitive, witty, and very talented team of writers and illustrators to produce this series. The latest two are no exception.
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The Finest Hours
Mayday: Simon Walton gets That Sinking Feeling… If there’s one thing cinematographers love, it’s a shot that opens out into a fantastical reveal. Something intimate and possibly threatening, opening into something colossal and most definitely threatening.
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In Human Form
Life drawing from the late William Crosbie RSA (1915 – 1999), photography from David Eustace, and Rebecca Westguard’s highly realistic depictions of the human body, comprise Life Stories, the Scottish Gallery’s current exhibition.
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New Chapter Restaurant…ssh!
‘Honest, fresh, and fantastically tasty food that brings together international influences and Scotland’s amazing larder’ goes the tag line for New Chapter Restaurant – and they have got it spot on.
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Open Eye – Two Careers
Cate Inglis, BA (Hons) painter and printmaker and distinguished painter, Philip Reeves, RSA PRSW RGI RE are two of the current exhibitors at Edinburgh’s Open Eye Gallery. Christine Richard met both of them at the Private View…
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