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A pair of shoes discarded beneath Rachel O'Riordan's desk in her small office suggests how much she has made Perth Theatre her home since she arrived from Northern Ireland two years ago and how comfortable she feels there.
If one name is synonymous with fashion imagery it's Vogue, the magazine bought by publisher Conde Montrose Nast in 1909 and still owned by the company bearing his name.
James HOGG'S 19th century Scottish novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of A Justified Sinner, will be known to most Herald readers, despite the fact that the book was initially published anonymously, and was hugely neglected during Hogg's lifetime.
The raison d'etre of Jacobean comedies is for their characters to romp around the houses in lengthy perambulations of duplicitous intent en route to love, money or both.
It is almost two months until Scotland's capital city hosts the biggest arts festival on the planet, but here, in the charming city of Varna, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, the summer theatre festival season has started in earnest.
From its opening spurt of jugular blood to its final train journey with special cargo in a wooden trunk, the National Theatre of Scotland's adaptation of Swedish horror movie (and John Ajvide Lindqvist's original novel) Let The Right One In remains remarkably faithful to its source material.
Interviewer: "Looking back at your life, what would you say had satisfied you most?" Man Ray: "I think...
I am in the outskirts of Amsterdam, looking for the studio of Dutch artist Krijn De Koning.
Sandy Nelson didn't intend to be a comedian, even if he did spend 14 years on the stand-up circuit.
Additional News from Scotland
MSPS are set to call for a Scottish Government probe into evidence benefits claimants are being subjected unnecessarily to stressful fitness-for-work tests.
ED Balls has insisted Labour is committed to the so-called "triple lock" on state pensions after the Tories claimed the Opposition was lining up pensions for cuts after it admitted they would be included in Labour's proposed welfare cap.
Scottish veteran broadcaster Andrew Neil has become the latest recipient of the tornado treatment of American "shock jock" Alex Jones.
BRITISH tax havens are "sunny places for shady people", Business Secretary Vince Cable has said, as he conceded that Government powers to stop tax avoidance are limited.
TEN sheriff courts and seven justice of the peace courts will close after Holyrood's Justice Committee backed changes to legislation, sparking anger among opposition parties.
THE rest of Scotland thinks the poll in Aberdeen next week is about the independence debate and the credibility of the First Minister.
A STRING of wildlife projects including the re-introduction of beavers to the Scottish countryside could be under threat as a result of changes to Scotland's tax powers.
Labour Party proposals to regulate the access businesses and private interests have to MSPs have gained the full support of the Scottish Government.
