Tea at Trianon (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Chapbooks were the popular reading for the common people from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. (Via Hermes ) Many popular fairy tales were spread by such a means, as well as news and sermons. According to the National Library of Scotland : Chapbooks are small paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet or portion of a sheet, folded into books of eight, 12, 16 and 24 pages,...
O Say Can You Chihuahua (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Polestar #15 Sunday, November 1, 2009 5 pm C.S. Carrier Roddy Lumsden Emmett Tracy CAKESHOP 152 Ludlow (between Stanton & Rivington) Trains to: Delancey-Essex Sts (F, J, M, Z) 2nd Ave-Houston St (F, V) Grand St (B, D) About the poets: C. S. Carrier is the author of the poetry collection, After Dayton (Four Way Books, 2008) and the chapbooks, Lyric (horse less press 2007) and The 16s (Katalanche...
Fuggled (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
There are few beers on earth as iconic as Guinness, few brands as well defined and even a source of national pride, few families as remarkable. In three phrases you basically have the premise of Stephen Mansfield's new book, The Search for God and Guinness. Guinness was the first legal beer I ever drank, in the lounge bar of a hotel near my home back in the north of Scotland, and is still a beer I...
North East Open Studios (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
The pressing need for greater openness, curiosity and promiscuity in the world of art Keynote Speaker: Peter Jenkinson of Channel 4’s Big Art Project Guest Curator: Ruth Barker of PAR+RS 10am Saturday 26 September Scottish Sculpture Workshop is delighted to welcome artist Merlyn Riggs to Lumsden, Aberdeenshire, to curate the latest of her series of Arts Breakfasts.... visit http://www.ssw.org.uk/index.php?c=1&act=story&tgt=723...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
If you tangle with a spirit named after one of the world's largest whirlpools don't say we didn't warn you. Ardbeg has launched a new single malt Corryvreckan that takes its name from the Corryvreckan whirlpool, part of the Gulf of Corryvreckan, which runs between the islands of Jura and Scarba off the west coast of Scotland. The whisky is at 57 percent strength and Dr. Bill Lumsden, Head of Distilling...
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