Dores, 7 June 2008

Community Centre, Nairn, 7-8 June 2008

GEORGINA COBURN talks with Highland-based artist EUGENIA VRONSKAYA about the evolution of her latest body of work now showing at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London

FANS OF hard-hitting, page-turning mysteries will know that Dennis Lehane is one of the finest thriller writers of our time. Clint Eastwood made an Oscar-winning film of Mystic River. Now, actor Ben Affleck has directed a stunning, sure-footed adaptation of Gone Baby Gone, creating a film soaked in the atmosphere of working-class Boston and informed […]

Empire Theatre, Eden Court Inverness, 29 May 2008

SUE WILSON reports on the Wrigley Sisters efforts to find a new home for their culture centre in Kirkwall.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies RECENT Romanian cinema has caught the attention of the world. Films like The Death Of Mr Lazarescu and 12.08 East Of Bucharest have confirmed a new wave of talent at work in the country. Cristian Nemescu was tipped as a leading figure in that renaissance until his tragic death in […]

Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, 23 May 2008, and touring

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 23 May 2008

THE GREEKS had a word for it—symposium. Today, that sounds like a rather stuffy, formal affair, but for Plato, Socrates and their mates it was just a dinner party. Except that some of the most influential ideas in Western thought were hammered out by them over the figs and the watered wine.