Photo courtesy of Dave Wilson By Lauren Witherspoon Widespread redundancies are now commonplace, but Rob Calder saw it as an opportunity to do something different. After uninspiring interviews and no clear vision of what he wanted to do, the bagpiper from Edinburgh had an epiphany. “I was actually just coming back from football one night thinking [...]
The 60th Berlin International Film Festival held its closing ceremony. This year’s Berlin Film Festival, the strong attack of the Chinese film won a total of four awards – who won the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear for best film director of mainland China, Wang Chuanan, with his film “Reunion” won the Silver Bear for [...]
Roman Polanski has won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival for his new political thriller, The Ghost Writer, but he could not accept it because he is engaged in a lawsuit for having sex with a minor in 1977. His producer, Alain Sarde, accepted the best director prize instead Polanski [...]
February 21st, the U.S. military in Iraq said a U.S. military helicopter crashed in northern Iraq base when it was landing and two pilots died. According to a press released by the U.S. military, the helicopter had an incident near the base airport. “At the time there was no hostile forces, there was no report of [...]
McGrady scored 26 points in his Knicks debut Saturday night, two days after being acquired in a trade. Though the Knicks ultimately fell to the Oklahoma City Thunder, 121-118, in overtime, it was an encouraging start. McGrady played 32 minutes and finished 10 for 17 from the field, with 5 assists and 4 rebounds, lifting his [...]
James Cameron’s 3-D science fiction movie ”Avatar” has grossed USD 2.039 billion surpassing the USD 2 billion mark held by Titanic by the same director. The movie’s distributor, 20th Century Fox, released the figures on Sunday. Fox declined to forecast where the film would end up, since it expected Tuesday morning’s Oscar nominations to spur [...]
Edinburgh, Feb 1 The US today defended its 4 billion pounds arms sales to Taiwan following protest from China. Washington said it was committed to helping the island nation defend itself, a US official said. The arms sales has strained further the US-China relationship. An official Chinese daily said US weapons sales to Taiwan, which [...]
The monks of Buckfast Abbey have defended their product in a statement today saying it was “hard to see” how the wine could be “held responsible for all the social ills” of Strathclyde. The possible link between the wine and crime emerged after a Freedom of Information request by BBC Scotland. Buckfast Tonic Wine was mentioned [...]
By Steve Gold A major Arts exhibition devoted to the legendary US photographer, the late Edward Weston, is sure to draw huge crowds at Edinburgh’s newly reopened City Art Centre this summer. Edward Weston: Life Work is organised by art2art Circulating Exhibitions and will run throughout Edinburgh’s main summer festivals period from July until late [...]
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