Art and movie

BROADCASTER and theatre critic Sheridan Morley has died aged 65, the BBC announced yesterday.

A DRAMA group for children is to be set up in an area earmarked for demolition in a bid to bring the community together.

Is the world ready for a flaming Nicolas Cage?

TWO former chorus members with Scottish Opera have sued the company for ?65,000, claiming they were refused freelance singing work despite passing auditions.

The thriller “Breach” manages to excite and unnerve despite our knowing the ending.

“Factory Girl,” a biography of Edie Sedgwick, the most glamorous of Andy Warhol’s so-called superstars, suggests a magazine layout masquerading as a film.

EVEN the lure of The Da Vinci Code could not keep Scottish readers from their favourite home-grown crime fiction, as a review of the most-requested Scottish library books for 2006 shows.

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 30 (IPS) - The daily experiences, codes of language and behaviour and rituals of women in Ezeiza prison, on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, form the rugged terrain that journalist and writer Marta Dillon explores in her latest book.

TAMPA, Florida, Jan 29 (IPS) - The author of a best-selling "biography" of cod and a world history of salt has taken on the weighty theme of nonviolence movements in his latest book -- why some thrive and others fail, and why the concept is so "profoundly dangerous" to the powers that be.

“Black Friday” is a moving and exhausting work of angry humanism.