Orwell and the Scots • ANDREW B SMITH
Orwell’s early attitude to the Scots and Scotland could best be described as frosty. In his excellent biography, Bernard Crick refers to the period during 1934 when Orwell had a girlfriend ...
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Paris Notes • Mary Folliet
PLUS ÇA CHANGE PLUS C’EST LA MÊME CHOSE: HOWEVER… “Je t’aime, ô capitale infâme!” —Charles Baudelaire (“Le Spleen de Paris”) Place St- Sulpice— Café de la Mairie 2 September 1999 Paris is ...
American Baseball in Black and White • Lee Lowenfish on Rickey, Robinson, and the integration of the sacred diamond.
There are cautiously hopeful signs of racial progress in the United States in all realms of life and culture. Barack Obama, a genuine African-American with roots in Kenya and Kansas, has a fighting chance to become President in ...
The Music Of Chance • from Edinburgh to Aldeburgh and beyond: Jane McKie talks with
SHEILA COLVIN
A Conversation with Sheila Colvin “It’s been a mess and yet it hasn’t been a mess.” Sheila Colvin has hadan extraordinary international career in the arts—including playing a vital role in the Edinburgh International Festival. JANE McKIE talks ...
PRETTY BROKEN PEOPLE:
lipstick, leather jeans,
a death of New York
• Martin Belk
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Looking for Glasgow
In the first of a regular series, full time student and urban explorer JENNI CHITTICK begins her search for some of Glasgow’s hidden treasures — from shops, to chatty traffic ...
Raising The Bar
The Skinny Editor Rupert Thomson surveys the ethos of a night out, bar decor and ...
The Late, Great, State of Free Speech • Betsy Super
It might have escaped your notice, but in the US and the UK attacks on free speech are on the rise. In order to protect us from subversion ...
Mean City to Big Apple, an update
A lot has happened since my first article for the first ONE…over three months since my arrival on American shores and what an adventure it is! On Food...
Jazz Funeral for a Drowned City
Two years on from the Hurricane Katrina disaster, New Orleans is still being battered. The city known for its combination of virtue and vice, is being swept by hostile forces —big ...
Picture Imperfect
Before the press blamed the Gorbals vampire hysteria on comic books, they targeted horror films. The problem was, they couldn’t make their case stick. There were only two creature features ...
When Mortgages Buy The Farm - Mike Holmes
Why did Northern Rock start to crumble? Is the credit crunch a new ...
Poetspace
Chanson d’automne Les sanglots longs Des violins De l’automne Blessent mon coeur D’une langueur Monotone. Tout suffocant Et blême, ...
26.2
A run through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx On November 4, 2007, still drowsy from too ...
Horn from Beyond • Gavin Inglis
Is there life after death? Only the dead can tell, and they’ve got a funny way of going about it. ...
You Are Here - Martin Belk
“What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times—and you were there.” —Walter Cronkite In a time when the profit has become the prophet, as ...
Civilization & Its Contents - Mary Folliet
CIVILIZATION & ITS CONTENTS “...incidents arousing pity and fear...” Aristotle (POETICS) I “To understand, your whole life would have to change.” Wallace Shawn (FEVER) where roach & rat thrive human art & love confound hope & jive survive II “Expect poison from the standing water.” William ...
Mean City To Big Apple - JD Pryce
August: Glasgow Today the air is clear, but apprehension clouds my gaze into a rare bright blue sky. In just three weeks, I’ll begin my journey into the unknown: from Glasgow to New York City. ...
