ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies JAMES MCAVOY is one of the hottest names in British cinema. The rising Scottish star isn’t just good-looking, hard-working and fashionable, he also has the kind of versatile talent that should ensure him a long career. He has an impressive range that stretches from the endearing fawn in ‘The Chronicles […]

JEN HADFIELD found the Peedie Gallery the perfect home for her Lady of Isbister

Community Theatre, Fortrose, 3 November 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies ITALIAN DIRECTOR Michele Placido has made a film worthy of comparison with Martin Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’ in ‘Romanzo Criminale’, a vivid tale of childhood friends immersed in organised crime. Based on a bestselling novel, this sweeping epic runs from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, tracing the rise and fall […]

Arts Co-ordinator NORMAN GIBSON sets the scene for the final two exhibitions in the Mackay Country Residencies project.

Libraries have come a long way since the days when books were their only stock-in-trade. NORMAN NEWTON surveys the range of services available to users of the Highland Libraries service.

The participants in the Health & Happiness Projects of Skye & Lochalsh report on their current activities.

Dogdazetheatre is Moray Council’s Theatre in Education company

MATT LLOYD explains the thinking behind the programme for the 4th Inverness Film Festival

HI~Arts offers a suite of awards schemes for visual artists, writers, musicians and makers. These can help professionals to develop many different aspects of their practice. In the case of Sutherland-based writer MANDY HAGGITH it took her much further than most of our awards do, and, as she explains, perhaps even further than she herself had expected…