Scottish Voice Show #542

Listen to the latest show: August 28, 2010 Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton Topics: Susan Boyle will sing for the Pope The Canonization of Blessed Mary MacKillop (related to the Cape Breton Beaton Family) Bio: Ed Miller and Ted Christopher Music 1 Ed Miller/The Edinburgh Rambler/Room [...]

Deaf dog ready to be rehomed after learning canine sign language

Aug 27 2010 By Ben Spencer A DEAF puppy has been given a new lease of life after successfully learning sign language. a mix between a Dalmatian and a collie, Alfie was given to a rescue centre 2 weeks ago because his family couldn’t cope with him. But workers at Banff and Aberdeenshire Rescue and [...]

Attack of the Knitted Tentacles

September: 1 2 3 4 Artist: Madeleine Shepherd and Carmen Moran At: Transreal Fiction, Edinburgh, Scotland Lovecraftian interventions between the bookshelves at Transreal. Knitted tentacles threaten reality from the realm beyond. Can the monsters from Carmenland save the Hep Herd from eldritch horrors? Site-specific, mixed-media art and craft for all ages!

Saints & Sinners Walking Tours

Discover Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns September: 1 2 3 At: Outside Ryan’s Bar Great introduction to Edinburgh. Enjoy an entertaining way to discover Edinburgh’s history and traditions. Experience the two sides of Edinburgh – the cultural and the dark.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Aug 6 – 30

Just a few days left to take in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe The world’s largest arts festival with over 32,000 performances and more than 2,000 shows packed into 250 venues across the city. The fringe is open to all: anyone can perform and everyone does- from students to superstars. One of the many events to [...]

Hughie J. Ferguson

Hughie J. Ferguson April 1, 1913 – October 21, 2009 Article taken from: Dave’s Whiteboard Dave Ferguson’s interests, ideas, notions, tangents Closure: a path, not a plaque Last April, about six months after my dad died at the age of 96, I met someone whose own father had passed away at 97. I said something [...]

University of Montpellier scientists provide us how depressive disorder is related to cholesterol and gender

Written by: Betty Doyle Do you know the Institute of Medical and Health Research (INSERM) and School of Montpellier funded experts pointed that controlling ‘good’ and ‘bad’ levels of cholesterol can help avoid mental problems among seniors? In a freshly released issue of the academic journal Biological Psychiatry (http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com) released in July 2010, leading researcher [...]

Scottish Voice Show #541

Listen to the latest show August 21, 2010 Producer/Host: Janet Stubbert Technical Producer: Mark Korman Halifax Correspondent & Gaelic Teacher Suzanne Beaton Music: McCalmans/The Greentrax Years/The Moor Road Greentrax Recordings, Scotland MacIsaac & MacIsaac/Fiddle Music 101/Set of Jigs McCalmans/The Greentrax Years/ Both Sides the Tweed Jennifer Roland/Celtic & Traditional Lullabies from Our Cape Breton/This Flower [...]

A Poem by Edwin Morgan

For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004 Open the Doors! Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; light of the mind, shine out! We have a building which is more than a building. There is a commerce between inner and outer, between brightness and shadow, between the world and those [...]

SCOTLAND’S national poet Edwin Morgan died today at the age of 90.

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ Date: 19 August 2010 SCOTLAND’S national poet Edwin Morgan died today at the age of 90. His publisher said that he passed away at his care home in Glasgow. Morgan, who was born in Glasgow in 1920, was recognised as one of the great poets of the 20th century. • Edwin Morgan In 2004 [...]

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