Strathpeffer Pavilion, 15 December 2005

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies JUST BECAUSE something is a great big hit in the theatre, it doesn’t follow that it will be a surefire  success in the cinema. ‘The Producers’ was the toast of Broadway in 2001, winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards. The film version is a loud, lumbering dinosaur that leaves you […]

In his role as the recipient of the first HI~Arts International Fellowship award, PROFESSOR KENNETH WHITE delivered three lectures in the Highlands and Islands under the heading of ‘The Geopoetics Project’. Northings reflects on these important lectures.

Stones and rocks are a total obsession for ceramicist LOTTE GLOB.

Big Top, Northern Meeting Park, Inverness, until 7 January 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies SEVENTY YEARS AGO audiences had seen nothing quite like ‘King Kong’. The astounding tale of a giant ape and his tragic love may have seemed primitive, but its impact was revolutionary. Times change and audiences have become much more sophisticated. It would be impossible to imagine the story having quite […]

STEVE ROBERTSON accompanied Black Isle favourites The Rites on their recent visit to Belfast.

SUE WILSON reflects on the lessons to be drawn for Scottish musicians from the Womex world music convention in Gateshead

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies IF YOU HAVEN’T planned that Christmas family outing yet, then you must make a point of seeing ‘The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe’. This magical adaptation of the C.S. Lewis novel has a sense of wonder and innocence that make it an ideal children’s film. […]

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 3 December 2005