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The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Her world tour, The Monster Ball, kicked off in Canada over the weekend with a show she described as being "in the style of an opera". We sent a theatre critic to survey the spectacle … Since Mamma Mia hit the boards a decade ago, the lines between musical theatre and pop concerts have become increasingly blurred. So, taking Gaga at her word, I donned my theatre critic hat (a tuque...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
BATTLE lines were drawn yesterday on plans to scrap most short-term prison sentences in Scotland.
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Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
"Arguments are an intellectual process. Contradiction is just an automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." Monty Python Regular readers will recall that I've an affinity with rank and file Lib Dems, many of whose attitude I found rather refreshing in Bournemouth, though if I see genial characters like Carl Minns , Charlotte Gore , Julian Harris etc. again, I will be claiming...
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
DELAYS to the largest and most expensive hospital campus in Scotland have left the project in danger of becoming "Glasgow's Holyrood," an MSP warned yesterday.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Shoeboxes filled with Christmas presents from people in Cornwall are being sent to British troops in Afghanistan.
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The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
THE number of cases of domestic abuse recorded by police increased by eight per cent last year, figures revealed today.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
People don't like Jason Robert Brown, they love him. The composer of shows like "Parade" and "The Last Five Years" has a near-cult following among musical theatre fans. So his concert this Monday night at The Glenn Gould Studio is probably going to generate the same level of enthusiasm from the crowd that his last appearance here in 2006 did.
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Londonist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
By Jon Smalldon via the Londonist Flickrpool Pancreatic cancer did for everyone's favourite dirty dancer in September this year and the world's most famous tenor two years ago. It's actually the fifth most common cause of death from cancer but public awareness is relatively low. What does the pancreas do anyway? Quite. A classical concert next Tuesday hopes to help change that and raise much needed...
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Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Saturday December 19th –1:00 & 4:00 PM - $28, $22, $15, $10 A powerful story of redemption, Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has enchanted audiences the world over with its simple message of selfless giving. Ebenezer Scrooge, survives a merciless battery of revelations through visits by the ghosts of his own Christmas: Past, Present and Future. Performed by TheatreworksUSA....
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Julian’s musings (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
http://robertmbrown.wordpress.com/ A newish blog that gives a young activist’s perspective on things political. Robert Brown says he enjoys mudslinging, although what I have read seems quite measured. Young people are the future – self-evidently. Young Labour activists are the future of Labour. Not Quite Anonymous is a window on Labour’s future, or a part of the future [...]
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Katy Gordon (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Katy, along with Robert Brown MSP and fellow Lib Dems rallied at Nelson’s Column on Glasgow Green on Saturday to protest at the Scottish Defence League (a little known far right organisation)’s plans to march on the Central Mosque in Glasgow. Along with nearly 3,000 others, they heard speakers from all political parties, the trades [...]
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The Lockerbie Case (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Calls for the documents, which cast doubt on the Lockerbie bomber's conviction, to be made public intensified yesterday, three months after his release. The Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Robert Brown MSP demanded full details of an investigation carried out by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. It was the SCCRC that recommended that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi should appeal his...
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Truth In Shredding (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Robert Brown is currently persuing work within the music industry as a professional guitarist. Right now a demo of his work and abilities on the intsrument is being rehearsed and recorded, as well as the first tracks to Robert Brown's debut solo album currently untitled. Check back to view updates soon! http://robertmichaelbrown.webs.com/ Robert Brown - Improvisation Over Mobile... This is a content...