Man climbs to top of catchfence during Dover NASCAR race
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Despite the man sitting atop the fencing, NASCAR did not stop the race to get him down.
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How will Scotland’s puffins fare against new offshore windfarms?
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You don’t easily forget your first close encounter with a puffin. Mine was on the Isle of Lunga, the largest of the Treshnish Isles, in the spring of 2004, and I’ve had a soft spot for them ever since.
Film review: Wonder Woman
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Patty Jenkins isn’t the first woman to direct a superhero movie, but having parted ways with Marvel on Thor: The Dark World, she’s the first to get a shot at a mega-budget summer blockbuster with a top-tier, globally recognisable character.
Theatre review: High Society
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Quite a few of the audience at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, it seems, as they sigh ecstatically over the gorgeous Fifties fashions featured in the opening production of this year’s Pitlochry summer season.
Music review: Celebrate ‘67 Live
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THE Hollywood script-worthy achievements of Celtic’s 1967 European Cup winning team, the so-called Lisbon Lions, demand to be admired by football fans of any persuasion even half a century on. Which was...
The hi-tech wave pool that could turn Edinburgh into Scotland’s Surf City
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Most sports evolve at a reassuringly sedate pace – a rule tweak here, a tactical innovation there – but not the sport of surfing, which, thanks to some mind-boggling technological advances in recent years is increasingly starting to feel like something out of a science fiction movie.
Book review: That’s Your Lot, by Limmy
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Short stories are the ideal format for suspense and intrigue. Readers are offered a brief glimpse into the world of a character and then the door is slammed shut. Brian Limond, known to his many fans as Limmy...
Music review: Running Up That Hill: A Celebration of Kate Bush
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It is a brave artist – or group of artists in this case – who dares to touch the unique catalogue of Kate Bush, one of the most fearsome stylists of the pop age, but also one shrouded in mystique and possibilities...
Film: Stephen Applebaum reports from the Cannes Film Festival
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The Cannes Film Festival would have wanted to start its 70th edition on a high note, and this year’s opening night film, Ismael’s Ghost (**), looked like it had all the right ingredients. A homegrown film from the Cesar-winning director Arnaud Desplechin...
Bordeaux Challenger Bound In History at Villa Primrose
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For 120 years, sport has been a staple component of life in Bordeaux, France, at the Villa Primrose Club. Several disciplines from fencing, handball, to golf and hockey have kept this community vibrant and active.
Music review: The SCO, Robin Ticciati, Christian Tetzlaff & Tanya Tetzlaff
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Rather than a strict, exacting – and more conventional – upbeat, it was with a grand, generous sweep of both arms, left to right, that conductor Robin Ticciati summoned the opening chord of his Beethoven Seventh Symphony from the SCO.
Scottish surfers prepare to take on world’s best in Biarritz
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This weekend the ISA World Surfing Games – the nearest thing the sport of kings has to a World Cup – will descend on the chi-chi resort town of Biarritz, on France’s Basque coast. The place is already an odd mixture of faded glamour and contemporary beach culture...
Theatre review: Daphne Oram’s World of Sound Off Kilter
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IN A SPOTLIT space at the front of the stage, holding a slightly incongruous modern microphone, stands a geeky, bespectacled young woman with an old-fashioned BBC accent, wearing a sensible 1940s-style skirt and cardigan.
Opera review: Scottish Opera - La bohème
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It’s a breathless affair, Renaud Doucet and André Barbe’s helter-skelter La bohème for Scottish Opera. The effervescent director/designer duo set Puccini’s heart-tugging opera in the back street flea markets of 1920s Paris...
Book review: Doves, by Lachlan Mackinnon
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Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2010, Lachlan Mackinnon’s last book, Small Hours, concluded with a long poem, “The Book of Emma”, in which he reflected on the death of a friend from his time as an undergraduate.
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