Scotland Notes: Homecoming, Burns an’ a’ that ONE Magazine welcomes its newest contributor, First Minister Alex Salmond The year 2009 is already shaping up to be an exceptional year for Scotland. Inspired by the 250th anniversary of the birth of our national cultural icon Robert Burns, our Homecoming Year is …
Glasgow Notes: From the Heart (By Way of Toronto) Leaving Glasgow for good was never my intention. Moving on was akin to boiling a frog; if I had left with the sole purpose of settling elsewhere the pain may have been too great for me to bear. As it was, …
New York Notes: Baseball’s Edifice Complex Major league baseball in the USA has been on a binge of new stadium construction. Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards started the craze in 1992 with a deservedly hailed ‘retro’ park that combined the intimacy and sightlines of a baseball-only ballpark with the …
Belfast Notes: Breaking New Ground Belfast is getting better. My perspective of Belfast is informed by a small graffiti I saw in a toilet stall in Europa Train Station. Nestled among crudely drawn penises and acronyms such as ‘IRA’, ‘UDA’, ‘INLA’, and ‘UVF’, were the words “I F*cking Hate Belfast” …
Hollywood Notes: Black Lists in Beverly Hills Every year Hollywood managers, agents and executives put together an inventory known in the business as ‘The Black List.’ Unlike the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, the current Black List is a desirable and enviable place to be — the list of …
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival kicked off last night with a inaugural address from First Minister Alex Salmond, and the immolation of sculpter David Mach’s Robert Burns match stick head – Rabbie burns… Rabbie burning… Rabbie burnt. Now,the 12th annual festival is well under way…
Berlin(ale) Notes: Views on Potsdamer Platz ‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.’ Transpose Kipling’s Asian Ballad to Mitteleuropa and imagine the climate in Berlin before 1989. But, in November of that year, with one swell foop (Berlin said IamONE?), the wall came …
Woodstock Notes: 1969 to 2009 Talking ’bout my Generation This August will mark the fortieth anniversary of Woodstock, the historic festival at Bethel, New York where some of the greatest musicians of my generation performed; Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, The Who, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, the Grateful Dead and …
In the beginning was the Word, somebody added an I and all hell broke loose. —Peter Porter, from Cross Stitch enjoy, link, but no copying. ©2009 Photography of Andy Warhol, Michael Wisenhunt, John Sex, Javier, International Crisis, Rebecca Field, The Warhol Skull, Leigh Bowery, John Kelley, Betsy Johnson, Marcus Leatherdale, …
Black Down in Britain From an Obama victory back to 1970s Britain: Stephen Thompson, popular author of Toy Soliders and Meet Me Under the Westway reflects and arrives with some new takes on politics from both sides of the pond.
Art and Matter Art and Matter: the idea came to me recently in Paris, at an exhibition of manuscripts. Near a letter written by an anguished Paul Verlaine, not far from one in the actual hand of Marie Antoinette, was a page from Albert Einstein. Although I could read little …
No Thoughts on Art On the tenth anniversary of his passing, ONE Magazine presents the first published peek at his final manuscript The Dusty Answers. If, according to The Naked Civil Servant, ‘an exhibitionist has no friends,’ then what happens to the exhibitions?
Shooting Warhol by Gerard DeGroot The author of the controversial book The Sixties Unplugged (2008) revisits a pivotal event for he infamous Pop Artist.
Welcome to Generation Free What does every good techno-revolution need? A great mutiny. While the self-proclaimed keeps of pop culture join the ranks of the chicken-little licensing naysayers, a new generation has emerged that is savvy and immediate, with a clear message: the jig is up. Smells like punk.
A Matter of Art Can art matter in the age of the internet now that noone pays for anything anymore?
The Death Predictor Horace screwed the final bolt into place before standing back to admire his creation. How long it had taken him to perfect his machine! It was unreal. For years Horace had been cooped up in his house. He wouldn’t leave for weeks on end, working in every …
Dreams, Lessons, Friendship, Hope. Each year The Moth invites one brave teenager to share a personal story on our main stage in New York City. They share the stage with celebrated writers and performers, which would be intimidating for someone twice their age. Last year, that teen was Tavar McKenzie. …
She’s My Dream Come True As part of ONE Magazine’s prison writing programme we hosted a creative writing competition throughout the young offenders institution. Entires came in from throughout the gaol, in all genres, and this piece of fictionalised autobiography emerged the winner. PJ Thompson’s delicate piece demonstrates that not …
Genesis of the Grumpy Chef Step aside Gordon Ramsey, your nemesis has arrived… and his vocabulary extends beyond ‘f*ck’.
