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ONE 2 • The Sleep of Reason: The Strange Case of the Gorbal’s Vampire
For much of the twentieth century, the Gorbals district of Glasgow was one of the most deprived and dangerous areas in Europe. The last thing it needed was a resident monster, but half a century ago, that’s exactly what it got. PAUL F. COCKBURN investigates the strange case of the …
ONE 2 • When Mortgages Buy the Farm
Why did Northern Rock start to crumble? Is the credit crunch a new kind of breakfast cereal? And who blew the financial bubble?
ONE 2 • Poetspace 2: Folliet, Calder and French Decadents
Entre Guillemets “Euphemistically Speaking” or Are You Kidding Me? “Every jest is an earnest in the womb of time” – George Bernard Shaw
ONE 2 • 26.2: A Run through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx
On November 4, 2007, still drowsy from too little sleep, we quietly gathered at Park Avenue and 32nd Street in Manhattan just before dawn. Our buses sat idling as we runners climbed on board for the first leg of what we hoped would be a spectacular 26.2-mile marathon run through …
ONE 2 • Horn from Beyond
Is there life after death? Only the dead can tell, and they’ve got a funny way of going about it. Original fiction by GAVIN INGLIS.
ONE 2 • Punchlines 2
Mailer in Edinburgh • Farewell Mr. Cheam • Restless Native Poetry • Mile-high Breakup Stormin’ Norman There’s no way that a column called “Punch Lines” could fail to note the passing of Norman Mailer, the two-fisted tornado of American literature, who flung in the towel on 10 November at the …
ONE 2 • Tasting Notes: The Feast of Steven
Deck the halls, book out my diary… I’d throw in a fa-la-la-la-la, but my corporate Christmas shindig schedule ate into Beaujolais Nouveau week this year. My bank manager loves it, but I question block booking November and December when most revellers seem perfectly happy to introduce themselves to the wine.
ONE 1 • you are here.
“What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times—and you were there.” —Walter Cronkite
ONE 1 • Mean City to Big Apple I
Mean City to Big Apple I Is it better to travel hopefully than to arrive? JONATHAN PRYCE tells a tale of two cities—on opposite sides of the Atlantic. August: Glasgow Today the air is clear, but apprehension clouds my gaze into a rare bright blue sky. In just three weeks, …
ONE 1 • Saving the Last Dance: Last FM and the End of the Music Industry
ANDREW B. SMITH tunes in, turns on and drops a bombshell. {xtypo_quote}Will the UK’s Last.fm spell the end of music radio as we know it? Some commentators think so, but the record industry aren’t happy.{/xtypo_quote}
ONE 1 • BLUE: Reflections from Ground Zero
REFLECTIONS from Ground Zero Monday, 30 July 2007: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the sixth anniversary of 9/11 would not be held in the pit at Ground Zero, but instead at the nearby concrete Zuccotti Park. The reason: “safety concerns”, now that construction is underway. After a …
ONE 1 • Punchlines 1
Hot and cold running sonar Not everything in the media is altered these days. Take a look at the photograph running above. Trust me, no pixels were harmed, or otherwise digitally manipulated, in the making of this picture.
ONE 1 • Tasting Notes: Vin More Thing
Regular readers of this column will recognize that its scribe places a premium on modesty, and so will be surprised to discover that I found myself marketed as an Edinburgh Fringe show throughout this last August. I can assure all such readers that they would have to multiply their own …
ONE 1 • Up for It: Original Fiction
Up for It 3 people. 2 sexes. 1 thing on their minds… Fly Boy said: Ony fliers? For roach. Cheers. D’ye no ken the lassie? Ye must, man—she’s no exactly hard tae miss! She wis there the Saturday before last, at Luvely, wi that shower that come through fae Bathgate.
ONE 1 • When the Reverse is also True: a Conversation on Culture, Art and Literature
When the Reverse is also True: a Conversation on Culture, Art and Literature On 21 August 2006 in Edinburgh, Martin Belk interviewed two esteemed men of letters and culture, Jim Haynes and John Calder. On 21 August 2007, excerpts from that spry conversation opened an international web event entitled When …