Bill Murray sings House of the Rising Sun
Just when you thought you couldn’t like Bill Murray any more than you do already, here he is singing House of the Rising Sun at an annual Caddyshack convention…happy Monday to you!
Bill Murray sings House of the Rising Sun
Anarchy for the cautious
Might manage this level of subversion.
Wanna work at Maggie's Farm?
Even Dylan might have wanted to work at this Maggie’s Farm. Although his lack of customer banter would have fared badly compared with the friendly team at the Dunfermline fashion store. Named after the Dylan song, the shop was opened by Laurissa Drysdale in December 2012. Conversational skills have helped in social media as well. In just over a year she has 8,000 followers on the Dunfermline Facebook page and,
Bannockburn Live: Line up announced for June event
How do you condense a two-day battle into a 30 minute display? Malin Heen-Allan (pictured above), Clanranald director, has had to tackle this very problem for Bannockburn Live which takes place on 28 and 29 June to commemorate the 700 anniversary of the battle. The ‘brutally realistic’ display of the battle will take place three times each day at 12, 2 and 4pm during the two-day event. Clanranald has worked
Just a shot away: Merry Clayton’s world beating vocal behind the Stones
The recent Oscar winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom tells of the amazing vocalists who often went ‘unsung’. Some of the music business’s greatest backing singers were failed stars, others were simply greasingers without the mania or the will required to be frontmen. One of the very best was Merry Clayton whose vocal on the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter is the stuff of legend. When the Stones were in LA to
The Reid Building at Glasgow School of Art
Designing a new building for the Glasgow School of Art to sit alongside Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece must have felt like a huge responsibility for american architect Steven Holl. The Reid Building, named after Dame Seona Reid, who stood down as director of GSA last summer, provides a new home for the design school.
Broomhead Bothy: of picture houses, green shield stamps and stovies
How do you make your stovies? Are you a corned beef kinda gal or sausage? Starting this Friday 14 March, the Broomhead Bothy comes to the Broomhead flats in Dunfermline and, in the community flat on the ground floor, will provide weekly cookery and art workshops as well the opportunity to pop in and share stories. Tales of green shield stamps and long gone picture houses are already being shared
Photographs rendered in Play-Doh by Eleanor Macnair
Eleanor Macnair recreates famous photographs in play-doh and then photographs the play-doh. See more of Eleanor’s creations on her tumblr.
Avocado Sweet welcomes new food writer!
Avocado Sweet is delighted to welcome food writer Hazel Cameron to the team. We will be featuring regular posts from Hazel’s blog The Grumbling Tummy which she describes as covering food ‘from fine dining to fish fingers and everything in-between’. It can also be reached anytime by clicking on the contributor box on the right. Having roved around the country, Hazel settled back in Fife seven ago where she now
The rules of golf when the bombs drop…
From the wonderful Shaun Usher here is a post from his Lists of Note, the sister site to his Letters of Note: As the Battle of Britain began to take hold in 1940, a bomb fell on an outbuilding belonging to Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England. As a result, the club — rather than halt future rounds of golf — issued an incredible list of temporary golf rules to