Opinions & Analysis
Freeway conversions
In his last column, computer science professor, amateur musician in the rock band SO3, and wildfire evacuee Serge Belongie finds…
Funding crisis hits publishing
At first glance the announcement by the Arts Council England (ACE) just before Christmas last year that they intended to…
Consumer power at the box office
The importance of the first weekend on a films theatrical life-span and general success is overwhelming…
Crocodile tears? The Luvvie that cried wolf
Opinionated? Very. Controversial? Certainly. Moogee the Art Dog is back, growling from his corner of the art world about funding.…
Bring back the throwing of rotten fruit
Elizabethan audiences would reward good acting by tossing coins up to the performers at the end of a play: bending…
Believing in the music dream
Serge Belongie, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California, San…
What’s the story with digital book readers?
While the book industry watched nervously last month as bookshops announced their Christmas favourites and the yearly race for the…
Platform 6: Creative (thinking) Scotland
"CultureScotland.com is going to have much in common with the workings of a particularly complicated industrial process (as well as…
A greeting card Christmas
Britain has the most successful greetings card industry in the world. We spend more on them than we do on…
Keeping it clean
"I have been leading an immaculate life since being a new act comic. I don't drink, I don't take drugs…