ALISTAIR PEEBLES continues his appraisal of this year’s St Magnus Festival, focusing on the Bosnian strand of the programme.

In the first of two extended reports, ALISTAIR PEEBLES looks back on another successful St Magnus Festival and addresses the mystery of how do they do that in Orkney?

ARTHUR BROCKLEBANK enjoyed a varied concert of vocal music from the Voiceworks ensemble.

JACQUELINE BENNETT looks back on this year’s degree show at Moray College.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. A GIDDY MIXTURE of melodrama, soap opera and farce, ‘Kings and Queen’ is a freewheeling statement on the relationship between parents and children; the love that is given and the pain that is caused. Ten years ago, director Arnaud Desplechin made the three hour ‘Ma Vie Sexuelle’. ‘Kings And Queen’ […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies. GRAPHIC NOVELS are an increasing source of inspiration for Hollywood blockbusters. The results have ranged from the muddled ‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ with Sean Connery to the electrifying new David Cronenberg thriller ‘A History Of Violence’. Based on three novels by Frank Miller, ‘Sin City’ takes the viewer on a […]

GILES SUTHERLAND reflects on the artistic collaboration between Dornoch-based printmaker Ian Westacott and his fellow Australian Raymond Arnold.

Eden Court, Inverness, 2 June 2005

Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, 20 May – 26 June 2005

Pitlochry Festival Theatre, May 2005