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Readers’ pictures of the week: 17-24 May video
A SELECTION of pictures submitted by our readers in the past week to The Scotsman picture desk.
How eating insects could solve world hunger
When the United Nations announced that we could all fight world hunger by eating more insects, most Scots probably turned green at the thought. But Fiona MacGregor is championing the cause after a visit to Cambodia
Touring Jim Clark country in the Lotus Evora S Sports Racer
“BY the time Jim brought the Lotus Type 23 across the line at the end of its first lap of the Nurburgring in 1962, he was so far ahead of the rest of the field that everybody watching feared a terrible accident had accounted for all his rivals. Then, almost half a minute later, and with Jim out of sight again, they gradually started to appear.”
Cartoons of the week: 18 - 24 May video
OUR weekly video slideshow of the week’s political cartoons, from our cartoonist Brian Adcock.
African animals come to Scotland for charity book video
ELEPHANTS, hippos and gorillas may not be native to the Highlands, but now you can see what they might look like against a Scottish backdrop thanks to a new book by an award-winning Scottish photographer.
Scaling heights of Scottish mountaineering history
A remarkable collection of Scottish mountaineering memorabilia is housed in cardboard boxes in a barn near Fort William. Roger Cox meets the man who has put it all together and hears his dream of one day housing it in a purpose-built museum
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Images of Scotland: An Teallach, Wester Ross
This photograph of An Teallach in Wester Ross and taken by John Dewar from the old ruined barn on Destitution Road between Braemore Junction and Dundonnell
Film review: Something In The Air (15)
Inspired partly by his own youthful idealism, Oliver Assayas’s new film is a poignant meditation on protest and disillusion
Gig review: Van Morrison, Perth Concert Hall
On this experience the Van Morrison live show is akin to a religious experience – it’s lots of older people sitting in near silence having an occasionally transcendental experience.
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Juliet Dunlop: Holidays at home win – by a distance
Does the thought of a fortnight in the sun fill you with dread? Do you break out in a cold sweat at the merest mention of a long-haul flight?
Film review: The Hangover III video
IN the circumstances, two stars might be considered a minor triumph. The patchy original, released in 2009, made so much money that sequels were inevitable; the real shocker was the $586m the Bangkok-set Part II took, despite being as quantifiably lousy as anything else released in 2011.
Fiona McCade: Popularity comes at too high a price
When I was about seven years old, I remember being sent out of class for sobbing uncontrollably. Why? Because I was wearing woolly tights.
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Alistair Harkness: Welcome return of Hal Hartley
Alistair Harkness welcomes the chance to revisit an indie auteur who was as important as Quentin Tarantino or Richard Linklater
Film reviews: Beware of Mr Baker | Epic | The Hangover III
Alistair Harkness reviews the rest of this week’s film releases
Trailer of the week: Inside Llewyn Davis video
The Coen Brothers’ new film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week – far, far ahead of its UK release date of 24 January, 2014.
Voguing and house music’s politically radical past
House music and voguing are more politically radical than you might think. Kirstin Innes on a festival where clubbing rubs shoulders with transgender theory and the avant garde
Theatre reviews: The 39 Steps | The Importance of Being Earnest | Mortal Memories
The foibles and mores of the past are a rich seam from which to mine humour, as a revival of Patrick Barlow’s Buchan adaptation amply demonstrates
Arts review: Degree Show 2013, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
With its Twitter references and electronic music, Dundee’s degree show is the work of a generation at ease with the digital world, but also reacting against it. These young artists knit, sew and make models too
Edinburgh International Festival: Sounds of the city
Crowdsourcing, popular among musicians, is now shaping the EIF, discovers David Pollock
Camera Obscura on new album Desire Lines
Camera Obscura didn’t look far from home when writing their new album, but they did travel continents to get the right sound
David Patrick’s Stravinsky centenary jazz rework
THERE MIGHT not be the kind of ructions associated with its premiere in Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 29 May, 1913, but punters at Edinburgh’s Jazz Bar should certainly sit up and take notice next Wednesday night when pianist David Patrick and a top-notch Scots-German assembly of jazz musicians pay a centenary tribute, 100 years to the day, to Igor Stravinsky’s explosive pagan ballet score, The Rite of Spring.
Back to basics for Scottish Opera?
Scottish Opera’s new season is short on big productions, but in revisiting its roots it’s hoping for a ‘leaner, fitter’ fresh start
Arts diary: Glasgay! | UK City of Culture | Quiz
IT’s been a good week for gay rights. Plans for equal marriage in England and Wales made it through the House of Commons (although they still need to get past the House of Lords) and the Church of Scotland voted to admit gay ministers.
Scottish word of the week: Gubbed
WITH the Scottish football season coming to a close this weekend with the Scottish Cup final, there’s one word that fans of Celtic and Hibs won’t want to hear used to describe their team - ‘gubbed’.
Emma Cowing: Fertility drive is offensive to women
KATE Garraway, her off Daybreak who is married to Derek Draper, is fronting a new campaign called Get Britain Fertile. It features Garraway made up to look like she’s about 102, sporting an enormous baby bump.
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Images of Scotland: Tantallon Castle
Tim Day took this picture while flying over Tantallon Castle near North Berwick in a Bucker Jungmann biplane
Radar weekly: The latest from the Scottish music scene
In this week’s round-up of new music: T Break line-up revealed; Wee Chill plans 10th birthday; more acts for Doune the Rabbit Hole; new music from Camera Obscura, Sparrow and the Workshop and Garden of Elks; plus this best gigs across Scotland.
Scottish fact of the week: Italian Chapel, Orkney
AN ORNATE Catholic chapel sited on Lamb Holm in Orkney, the Italian Chapel was built by Italian prisoners of war during the Second World War, who were held on the island while they constructed the causeways designed to block access to the Scapa Flow.
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The Stone Roses’ Glasgow Green 1990 gig recalled
I STILL have the T-shirt. Stretched, faded, full of holes; it is, if you can believe this, almost 23 years old.
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival set for stars video
A SAXOPHONIST who tours the globe with pop star Beyonce is among the highlights of this year’s Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival as organisers seek to open up the ten-day event to a younger audience.
TV review: The Fall | Frankie | Rock’n’Roll Britannia
WHEN I found out the new drama The Fall wasn’t, after all, the story of a chaotic rock band with almost 50 ex-members and one constant – incorrigible, irascible Mark E Smith – I was disappointed. But the feeling didn’t last, because this is a psychological thriller and a good one, maybe the best since The Shadow Line.
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Harry Potter first edition a notable read
Only 500 copies of the first edition of the first Harry Potter book were published, and a very special one is up for auction, crammed with notes and drawings by JK Rowling, writes Martyn McLaughlin
Atholl Estates photo contest winners announced Picture gallery
FOUR amateur photographers could see their work travel across the globe this year, after winning a photography competition run by Atholl Estates.
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Festival review: Stag & Dagger, Various Venues, Glasgow
In a climate where start-up festivals come and go and multi-venue events seem to be finding it tough to achieve any degree of longevity, it’s pleasing to report that promoter PCL’s annual one-day Stag and Dagger jaunt around Glasgow appears to have reached its fifth anniversary in good health.
Images of Scotland: Liathach and Beinn Eighe
Douglas Hood’s photograph of Liathach and Beinn Eighe was taken from a rowing boat in the middle of Loch Clair
Win a bottle of the Macallan Sienna
RECENTLY launched, The Macallan 1824 Series is an innovative new range which showcases two of The Macallan’s greatest strengths; oak sherry casks and natural colour.
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10 things to do in Scotland this week
THIS week’s top events across Scotland, including the Perth Festival of the Arts, the Knockengorroch World Ceildih, the Burns an’ a’ That festival and the Electric Frog weekender.
EdinburghSketcher captures Pedal on Parliament 2013
THIS WEEK the EdinburghSketcher and his family took part in Pedal on Parliament cycle from the Meadows to the Scottish Parliament...
Edinburgh Sketcher goes in search of giants in Edinburgh
Look to the trees around Holyrood to see who’s looking back
100 Weeks of Scotland: Gullane|Applecross|Rob Roy video
ACTRESS Shonagh Price is the first image from this week. Taken at Gullane beach on a perfect May morning this photo forms part of a series of images I have been working on entitled ‘Magnetic North’, a project in which I am photographing artists, actors, writers etc.
Lost Edinburgh: The Royal Patent Gymnasium
THE view today looking down onto King George V Park from Royal Crescent at the northern edge of Edinburgh’s New town offers little evidence that it was once the site of one of the most remarkable and unique attractions in Victorian Britain.
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Cannes: Gatsby takes lead at opulent film festival
BRITAIN is out of the running for the Palme D’Or at Cannes, but there’s a strong showing elsewhere, and the prominence of the opulent Great Gatsby seems somehow apposite, writes Stephen Applebaum
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Not Another Happy Ending: On set with Karen Gillan
Former Doctor Who companion Karen Gillan stars in a romcom that will close this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. Gaby Soutar was on the set for filming in Glasgow
Climbing Everest for a high chance of survival
Earlier this year a team of medics set off for Mount Everest – in a bid to help intensive care patients. Lisa Salmon reports
Album review: Daft Punk: Random Access Memories
The French Duo’s hotly anticipated new offering puts the soul back into dance music as Daft Punk invite an impressive guest list along to the party
Dance review: Sutra, Edinburgh
AS ONE visually striking moment melts into the next, you start to realise that Sutra is as much a piece of visual art as it is performance. Which, given that the set was designed by British sculptor Antony Gormley, makes perfect sense.
Images of Scotland: North Berwick West Links
Sylvia Beaumont took this photograph of the statute commemorating North Berwick golfer Ben Sayers, who watches over the west links golf course in the town
Tom Kitchin: Wagyu beef recipes
WAGYU beef is renowned worldwide as one of the most expensive beefs you can buy.
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David Gandy on male modelling and his next moves
THIS has been a long time coming. Four months, to be precise.
Angelina Jolie brings home a frightening dilemma
AS WENDY Helliwell came downstairs on Wednesday morning, the name Jolie flashed on the TV screen. She caught the words “double mastectomy”.
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Friday 24 May 2013
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