Living by the Sword
Whoever signed off on the cover for this otherwise fascinating book needs a bit of a talking to. For a start, the title’s all wrong. The doodles contained within are not “famous doodles”. They are doodles by famous people...
Living by the Sword
I first came across Brian Catling’s work in Iain Sinclair’s wonderful anthology, Conductors Of Chaos, with a remarkable poem called “The Stumbling Block, Its Index”. I later found out that he was also a sculptor, performance artist and a professor of fine art at Oxford.
Living by the Sword
When leading Scottish playwright Rona Munro was asked, back in 2017, whether she would be interested in writing a stage version of Louis De Bernières’s hugely popular 1994 novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, she had just two strong memories of the book she had read more than 20 years earlier.
Living by the Sword
Novels are stories. They may be other things as well and good novels offer other delights. The story may be simple – “once upon a time” – or it may be rich in complication and deepened as a consequence of being addressed from different perspectives or by time-shifts.
Living by the Sword
As a child, I was a people watcher, when I wasn’t filling my wellies with water from the burn I was attempting to dam, or having gang meetings in the outhouse at the bottom of our garden. We lived in the village of West Linton, on the northern edge of the Borders.
Salle Green
Counterattacks pose a difficult problem. You are in the midst of an attack, which means that you are committed to going forward, and suddenly the opponent attacks into your attack. Your focus is on the successful completion of the attack, not on dealing with an attempt to hit you.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
We had a very fun and interesting middle school team foil tournament yesterday at the club. We had four teams with really good competition. There were no blowouts and four of the six matches went to 5-4.
Global Edmonton
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce park turned into a battleground Saturday, for the fifth edition of the Sword Play Outdoor Tournament.
Living by the Sword
The paint is still wet in the Stow Building when I visit this year’s GSA undergraduate degree show a couple of days before opening. “Not on the paintings,” my host is quick to clarify, “but I wouldn’t go leaning against any white walls.”After a year of overwhelmingly bad news...
Living by the Sword
Edinburgh College of Art has just finished a major refurbishment of its splendid building. Everything inside is freshly painted – except the floors. They are a historical palimpsest. In what was formerly the Head of Painting’s studio...
Living by the Sword
The subtitle of this fascinating book is important: “A Guide To An Imagined Scotland” – not therefore Scotland just as it is, but Scotland as it might have been, might indeed be. Many readers skip introductions.
Living by the Sword
Stay six days, see six plays. It’s always been the promise offered by Pitlochry Festival Theatre, ever since its early 1950s days in a giant marquee at Knockendarroch, on the other side of town from its...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
We had a number of people participate in the Powerade State Games and brought home a number of medals. Erica Julien started things off in sabre. She avenged a 4-5 pool loss to take the bronze medal in...
MercuryNews.com
The possibility of fencing off Canoas Park for a nearby elementary school had angered nearby residents.
Living by the Sword
IT’S NO longer a new show, and it’s even half a decade since Sell A Door launched this hugely successful British touring production. Yet Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s musical-with-puppets Avenue Q, first seen in New York in 2003...
