Music - April 16, 2008
A Justin Currie gig scouting report
Last night I went to Chicago to get a little advance taste of Friday's Justin Currie and Angie Mattson show at Shank Hall. On the second night of a two-week U.S. tour, Currie played two sets at the intimate Schuba's and Michigan's Mattson opened both of them.
Tags: Justin Currie, What Is Love For, Ryko, Del Amitri, Glasgow, Angie Mattson, Peter Adams

Music - Oct. 16, 2007
Pollock's solo debut leads her to Milwaukee
The Delgados broke up last year and singer Emma Pollock has a solo CD, "Watch the Fireworks," which arrived via 4AD Records in September. She comes to Milwaukee this week.
Tags: emma pollock, delgados, watch the fireworks, 4AD, Beggars, Alun Woodward, Scotland, Glasgow, Pabst, New Pornographers

Arts & Entertainment - April 24, 2007
Och, aye: Trinity dances to another gold in Glasgow
Milwaukee’s Trinity Academy of Dance won its first gold medal in nearly a decade as the Trinity’s Junior Girls Figure dance choreography took first place at the 37th World Championship in Irish Dancing held in Glasgow, Scotland recently.
Tags: Trinity, Irish, dance, Glasgow, Scotland, Celtic

Music - March 7, 2007
Domino brings back the Sound of Young Scotland
Domino Records' reissues of bands like Orange Juice, Fire Engines and Josef K come as a revelation for those of us who loved this quirky, poppy music 25 years ago. And they will help introduce these bands to younger alternative music fans who will adore the unadorned precociousness of these guitar-fueled bands.
Tags: Orange Juice, Postcard, Edwyn, Josef K, Velvet Underground, Pere Ubu, Glasgow, Scotland, Edinburgh, Fire Engines, Domino, Franz Ferdinand, Aztec Camera, Roddy Frame, Richard Hell, Voidoids, Beefheart

Movies - April 17, 2005
Sweet "Dear Frankie" sidesteps schmaltz
Leave it to Britain -- in this case Scotland -- to give us another unassumingly wonderful film about a family trying to make the best of things. In the case of "Dear Frankie," directed by Shona Auerbach and written by Andrea Gibb, it's a story about a deaf boy and his mother.
Tags: Dear Frankie, Mortimer, McElhone, Scotland, Glasgow