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
Category: ONE-1 • Aug 2007 • You Are Here
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 …