22nd October 2008
As Glasgow celebrates the work of Tennessee Williams, Tara Hepburn joins in on the admiration This year marks a huge list of anniversaries if you’re inclined to look for them. It is, as it happens, 75 years since Monopoly was invented, 50 years since Elvis was drafted into the US Army, and 25 years since ...
22nd October 2008
Harry Tattersall Smith Glasgow 0 – 1 Vale of Leithen Reduced to ten men, Glasgow were cruelly dumped out of the first round of the Scottish football Cup at a rain soaked Garscube, against Borders side Vale of Leithen.The game’s pivotal moment came on the half hour mark, when Ross Montgomery was dismissed for a ...
22nd October 2008
Suzi Higton talks to Mark Beaumont about university, Iranian hospitality and cycling around the planet “I had no idea that you could make a job out of doing something you love so much,” Mark Beaumont smiles, “I genuinely thought I’d have to go back and do what my traditional education was for. I couldn’t have ...
22nd October 2008
Suzi Higton Glasgow illustrated its credibility as a sporting host city ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games, by staging the 21st World Acrobatics Championships as well as the 5th International Age group Competition at the Kelvin Hall arena. The event which was supported by Event Scotland and organised by Glasgow City Culture and Sport attracted ...
22nd October 2008
Ming Lam samples the Irish charms of Women’s Gaelic Football Gaelic football is a sport that has had received relatively little attention in Glasgow University, but still continues to have a huge following in Ireland. After watching my first game in Waxy O’Connors between Irish counties teams Tyrone and Kerry and seeing the enthusiasm of ...
22nd October 2008
Chris Tait Glasgow University Tennis Club sent a clear message to the rest of the Scottish League first division on Wednesday as they hit off the new season with success over city rivals Strathclyde. The men’s first squad, which included first year talent David Birrel and Tim Campbell, romped home to an incredible 10-0 victory. ...
22nd October 2008
Tom Bonnick revisits Ken Loach’s magnum opus, Cathy Come Home First aired in 1966 as part of the BBC’s — now sadly extinct — The Wednesday Play strand, Cathy Come Home is the story for which the word ‘harrowing’ may as well have been invented. It is also one of the best television dramas ever ...
22nd October 2008
Kate Hughes previews the Theatre Royal’s new season-opener, The Secret Marriage Scottish Opera began their winter season with an inspired adaptation of Italian composer Domenico Cimarosa’s most lauded work, his 1792 opera Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage). Director Harry Fehr’s production is a far cry from the original Viennese setting, as the drama and ...
22nd October 2008
Claire Strickett So you’re off to the cinema to see a film. Why? I don’t ask why you are going to the cinema as such (Boredom? Procrastination? A new love interest?) but rather, why are you going to see the film that you are, and not any other out of the thousands that have been ...
22nd October 2008
Lewis Porteous It seems as though, following the twin misfires of Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers, fresh offerings from the Coen brothers will always be treated with a degree of suspicion. Indeed, some quarters, convinced of the duo’s decline, are already proclaiming Burn After Reading their worst film since the latter, a statement which, in ...
