As gilded and over-the-top as the Old South itself, the Gone with the Wind 70th Anniversary Collector's Edition Blu-ray release is an impressive tribute to one of the best loved films of all time. The Victor Fleming-directed (at least Fleming gets the credit) classic, based on Margaret Mitchell's book of the same name, looks exceedingly good in high definition, and the bonus items (video and otherwise)...
On Saturday night we went back to the Barbican, this time to see the National Theatre of Scotland's co-production with New York based theater company TEAM of Architecting . Architecting is a musical, multi-media time-bending epic peopled with Scarlett O'Hara pageant contests and anarchistic architects. It rockets from the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction to a desolate bar in post-Katrina...
A recent selection which has just hit my radar is that of Katie Mackie to stand in Falkirk at the general election. Educated at Manchester Metropolitan University, Katie is currently public affairs adviser to the Scottish Grocers' Federation. She formerly...
Btms^ for Sunday, November 8. Liquor Barns are open Sundays from 1 pm to 9pm. Drink 4cast 4 2day: Any great KY Bourbon – Hancock’s, Van Winkle, Woodford, Blanton’s – 2 toast 2 Martha Layne Collins, elected KY’s 1st Female Governor, 2day in 1983. On this date in… 1656 – British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was born…to track [...]
Who needs holidays? Make your own with the birthdays of movie people. Parker, Oleg and Vlad the Impaler (as interpreted by Gary Oldman) Today's Birthdays 11/08 1431 Vlad the Impaler would have turned 578 years old today if not for that stake through the heart. To be accurate, his exact birthday is unknown but sometimes he's listed on this date which probably has something to do with... 1847 Bram Stoker...
Architecting , an ambitious exploration of emotional and social repair, is stimulating and exciting and messy and frustrating in equal measure. Devised by the TEAM (Theatre of the Emerging American Moment) in association with the National Theatre of Scotland the piece began life as a BAC Scratch commission in 2006 before a much expanded version drew plaudits last year at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre...
No, this isn't about "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"! I've only just discovered this , but an Australian study has shown that being grumpy is good for you, mainly by allowing clearer thinking! Bah Humbug!! Your Sunday questions are: - What were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen today in 1895? Author Margaret Mitchell (right) was born today in 1900 and won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for which...
Who else but Kathy Gill teaches both Twitter and motorcycle safety? The professor, writer, bike chick and all around tech superstar is seattlepi.com's Geek of the Week.
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This past summer I drove several times from downtown Atlanta south to Luthersville, GA to drop/pickup my kid at a Girl Scout camp just a mile outside of that sleepy little Georgia town. The drive took about an hour or so, down I-85 south a’ways. Along the entire car ride, I followed an existing rail [...]
Would Milne mind? Would Adams? How about Stoker? Should we care? Should we throw petulant tantrums every time someone makes a buck off our nostalgia? Can this Bookninja dude get away with another rhetorical question or is this really the upper limit? The literary creations of authors stopped being sacred territory roughly 20 years ago, when [...]
Press Release from University of Otago DO NOT READ - BANNED ‘ Instruct watch for new novel entitled ‘Butchers Shop’ by Jean Devanny Wellington lady Publishers Duckworth, London, alleged depiction station life New Zealand disgusting indecent communistic’ – Bert (London ). A telegram received from London, 1 March 1926, addressed to Frank David Thomson, the Prime Minister’s...
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