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John Marciari is making history Saturday, August 7, 2010 @ 6:08PMTo the Spanish media, it seemed incomprehensible. John Marciari had just accomplished one of the biggest art coups in years: discovering a previously unknown work by the 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velázquez. How could he ever go back to work again? Not only is he back at work in San Diego, he's finding more surprises.
Goddard: Before Vermeer was Vermeer Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:14PMExhibit in The Hague shows early works of artist best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring.
This week's new albums, July 20: Sheryl Crow, Marc Cohn, Wire, more Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 7:24AMSheryl Crow [ tickets ] "100 Miles From Memphis" (A&M) In a note on her website , Sheryl Crow says she feels artistically revitalized after rediscovering the soul music of the 1960s and '70s that she grew up on, specifically the music released by the Atlantic and Stax labels. For her seventh album, Crow and producers Doyle Bramhall and Justin Stanley penned tunes steeped in vintage R&B and dug ...
Thrill to 'Too Long,' stomp with Moonpie Fever Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 1:16AMIf you think that traditional folk music is a namby-pamby realm of unicorns, rainbows and swooning damsels, you've never trolled the pages of Francis J. Child's seminal work "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads."
Take a trip to Sandcastle St Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 5:17AMIT IS going to take 15 tonnes of sand, three gallons of water and five days of hard work, but some of the Capital's best known landmarks are to be recreated – in a giant s
Newton's apple tree to escape gravity Sunday, May 9, 2010 @ 8:40AMBritish-born Nasa astronaut to take piece of tree that aided scientist's discovery of gravity to international space station A British astronaut is planning a unique test of Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity – by taking an original piece of the scientist's famous apple tree on a 5m-mile journey into space. Sussex-born Piers Sellers plans to release the 10cm fragment in zero gravity during his ...
Ben Bova: The life of architecture ... from the Parthenon to Las Vegas' strip Saturday, April 3, 2010 @ 4:09PMI’ve just finished reading a fascinating book. It’s “The Secret Lives of Buildings” by Edward Hollis (Metropolitan Books; 352 pages; $28). Hollis is an architect and designer who teaches at the Edinburgh College of Art. As a practicing architect he specialized in alterations to historic buildings. His book is about historic buildings, from the Parthenon to the (no kidding) Las Vegas Strip.
Ten-year project to help prevent dementia uses 1940s study to track mental development over the decades Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 6:20AMA BICYCLE is propped up in the corner, the walls are lined with old books and there's a large oil portrait of a serious-looking, learned chap on the wall. So far, so very
Travel tips 23 February 2010 Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:10PMLima - The ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are to be reopened to tourists in early April after heavy rain damaged the access routes to the popular destination in southern Peru, tourism officials said. ...
Travel tips 23 February 2010 Monday, February 22, 2010 @ 9:10PMLima - The ancient Incan ruins of Machu Picchu are to be reopened to tourists in early April after heavy rain damaged the access routes to the popular destination in southern Peru, tourism officials said. ...
Glass raised to Inverarity Vaults' latest director Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 6:05PMIT LOOKS like Stephen Paterson might be cracking open a bottle of something bubbly this weekend – but, then again, how else would you celebrate becoming a director of a wine m
Web site offers Shakespeare’s works to the masses Friday, January 29, 2010 @ 10:28AMIn an ordinary room off a beige corridor in a dull 1930s Oxford building, four priceless early editions of Hamlet lie thrillingly open on a large round table that once belonged to 19th century art critic and social thinker John Ruskin.
Investigators search for paranormal clues in city whisky cellars Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 4:13AMTHE only spirits most people expect to find at the city's Scotch Malt Whisky Society vaults are the ones served in tumblers.
I Believe In Ghosts: Joe Swash - BBC3, 9pm Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 7:03PMThe former King of the Jungle is on a nationwide search for floating white sheets with eyeholes.
Douglas Fraser blogs on banker bonus points Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 3:05PMDon't be surprised that most attention to today's appearance before the Treasury select committee by Stephen Hester is focussed on his talk of banker bonuses.
Scotland's oldest book: A pocket-sized piece of historical dynamite Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 3:09AMFOR decades it has lain in the vaults of a Scottish university library, seen by only a handful of scholars.
2°C - Foggy Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 1:07AMA TEENAGER died on the day doctors told him he had leukaemia.
4°C - Rather cloudy with only a few clear intervals Friday, December 11, 2009 @ 1:07AMA TEENAGER died on the day doctors told him he had leukaemia.
Herald Scotland Thursday, December 10, 2009 @ 5:30AMTeenager John Paterson was a picture of health, a strapping 6ft 2in boy who had never been seriously ill.
Down among the dead men Saturday, November 28, 2009 @ 5:14AM'I DON'T feel good right now at all, there's something here with me and I can feel it." The trembling voice is that of a rather sweaty and petrified Zak Bagans
Kate turns to pedal power Tuesday, November 17, 2009 @ 6:22PMA TEN-YEAR-OLD gymnast from Newton has helped raise money for her club by cycling 100 miles.
Kate turns to pedal power Friday, November 13, 2009 @ 4:23AMA TEN-YEAR-OLD gymnast from Newton has helped raise money for her club by cycling 100 miles.
Gold Jumps on India's 200-Tonne IMF Purchase, London Sees "Sea Change" in Market Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 8:28AMTHE PRICE OF GOLD rose sharply to 7-session highs against the Dollar and new 8-month highs vs. the Euro early Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of India said it bought 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund late last month.
Edinburgh: Historic city is macabre but magic Wednesday, October 28, 2009 @ 5:55AMHistoric Edinburgh is at its best in the autumn and the city's darker side makes it the perfect location for Hallowe'en says Francesca Hoyles.
Horse Racing: Tylicki can unearth win with City Vaults Monday, October 19, 2009 @ 5:32AMCITY VAULTS GIRL can give Frederik Tylicki another winner in his quest to claim the apprentice jockeys' title.
Inverarity Vaults uncorks a push east with Edinburgh wine shop Monday, October 12, 2009 @ 6:14PMINVERARITY Vaults, Scotland's largest independent wine merchant, is to accelerate its recent growth with an expansion into Edinburgh.
The Diary: Ben Bradshaw; Boyzone; Krzysztof Wodiczko; Ryan McGinley; Bonnie Greer Thursday, September 24, 2009 @ 6:16PMWith each new Culture Minister comes a new set of paintings to furnish the office, chosen by the latest incumbent from the vaults of the Government art collection.
Lord Buxton of Alsa Tuesday, September 8, 2009 @ 11:14PMAnglia TV executive and creator of the long-running natural history series Survival Aubrey Buxton, Lord Buxton of Alsa, who has died at the age of 91, combined a passionate interest in wildlife with a commanding role in television, frequently to their mutual benefit. Survival, the long-running ITV natural history series, which he created at Anglia TV in 1961 and oversaw as executive producer ...
Barflies, The Barony, Edinburgh Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 6:21PMIn the glut of site-specific work at this year's Fringe, there is surely no finer match-up of site and subject than Barflies, a journey through Charles Bukowski's most liver-bruising drinking tales set in a boozer at the bottom end of Broughton Street.
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 4:37PMGlasgow's transport network will be stretched to the limits tonight as the city hosts two major events on the same evening. More than 120,000 fans are expected to clog transport arteries as they descend on Hampden.
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 2:22PMNew research has shown the traditional image of wild red deer stags as proud Monarchs of the Glen is wide of the mark, and, in fact they can suddenly and quickly slip into old age.
Scottish News: Business and Politics from Glasgow, Edinburgh - all Scotland - The Herald Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 2:08PMThe under-fire boss of Scotland’s largest social landlord has quit, in a move opponents of the troubled organisation say represents “a clean slate” for the housing provider.
Second time around with "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"" Tuesday, July 7, 2009 @ 10:35AMIt's the kind of story that makes a great headline -- Single Welfare Mom Becomes Internationally Celebrated Author. In J. K. Rowling's case, it's a fairy tale come true. Writing in longhand on scraps of paper in an Edinburgh...
Paranormal fans invited to a ghost hunt in old city haunts Tuesday, June 30, 2009 @ 4:39AMTHE LATEST high-tech ghost-hunting equipment is to be taken into two of Edinburgh's most haunted vaults in a bid to find out if there really are spirits under the old stre
A Renaissance reunion: Veronese painting restored, reunited Tuesday, May 26, 2009 @ 4:05PMA Renaissance painting that's languished, badly damaged, in the vaults of the National Gallery of Canada since the 1930s will re-join the permanent collection on Friday following a two-year restoration.
Brian Taylor blogs on Westminster reform Tuesday, May 26, 2009 @ 8:23AMAre suggested UK election reforms a runner?
How I cross-examined 'fat boy' Göring Saturday, March 21, 2009 @ 7:55AMBritish prosecutor's letters to wife give unique insight into postwar hearings In pictures: Nuremberg trial Sixty-three years ago today the British deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials woke up knowing he faced the greatest challenge of his professional life. Standing before him in the dock would be one of the most hated men in the world: leading Nazi Reichmarschall Hermann Göring. ...
Vaults ghost watch bids to scare up volunteers Friday, February 20, 2009 @ 5:28AMBUDDING ghost hunters and paranormal detectives are being dared to see what goes bump in the night at two of Edinburgh's most haunted vaults.
£125 million art collection to be shown nationwide Thursday, January 22, 2009 @ 8:44AM It could be described as the biggest touring art show in the world: the freaks and eccentics photographed by Diane Arbus will be taken to Cardiff, Wolverhampton and Walsall will get a taste of Andy Warhol, Bill Viola's experimental videos will be unveiled in Orkney, and what audiences in Teeside will make of Gerhard Richter's 'abstract minimalism' is anyone's guess.
Interview with JJ Lumsden, Author Wednesday, January 14, 2009 @ 11:02AMIf you are looking for a perfect book to accompany a cup of hot cocoa, a cozy blanket, and your four-legged friend curled up next to your feet on a snowy weekend, I would suggest The Hidden Whisper.
Thieves destroy rare pearl beds Friday, January 2, 2009 @ 3:37PMScottish police called in after hundreds of freshwater mussels are pulled from river Spey
Mussels targeted for their pearls Thursday, December 18, 2008 @ 6:56PMFreshwater mussels and the pearls they contain are proving a magnet for illegal collectors.
The Bonham Hotel Edinburgh to Offer Chiller Break this Halloween Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 2:05AM The Bonham, a luxury hotel in Edinburgh is offering a Halloween break to help visitors discover the spooky side of the Scottish capital.
Raising spirits at The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Sunday, October 19, 2008 @ 2:30AM The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is offering a whisky experience with a difference. Discover rare single cask single malt Society whisky along with spirits of a different kind through tales from the most haunted distilleries around Scotland. (PRWeb Oct 19, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1488244.htm
Raising spirits at The Scotch Malt Whisky Society Sunday, October 19, 2008 @ 2:05AM The Scotch Malt Whisky Society is offering a whisky experience with a difference. Discover rare single cask single malt Society whisky along with spirits of a different kind through tales from the most haunted distilleries around Scotland.