Talk Preview: Celluloid Sinatra: An Illustrated Talk, 2 June, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

I alluded to this talk very briefly the other week, but thought I’d just give it another plug as I bought my ticket yeterday – Celluloid Sinatra: An Illustrated Talk takes place at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse on Monday 2 June at 6.15pm.
From the website:

Adrian Wootton, CEO of Film London, former artistic director of the London Film [...]

Book Preview: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Campaign, 22 Feb – 1 March

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is reopened this February as Edinburgh once more goes Robert Louis Stephenson mad!
Way back in February 2007, the people over at the City of Literature of Trust mounted a campaign to bring the work of Edinburgh’s very own Stephenson to a wider audience through a giveaway [...]

Talk Preview: James Meek, 18 February, Blackwell’s

James Meek, author of the Ondaatje prize-winning The People’s Act of Love and winner of Britain’s Best Foreign Reporter, will read from his new novel We Are Now Beginning Our Descent at Blackwell’s on Monday 18 February.

Meek has drawn on his time as foreign correspondent for the Guardian in this tale of a war reporter [...]

Talk Preview: Kevin Williamson, Friday 1 February

Kevin Williamson was editor and founder of the legendary underground Rebel Inc publishing house as well as being an acclaimed author and poet, cultural commentator and self-proclaimed ‘media terrorist.’
Williamson will be reading from his first collection of poetry, In a Room Darkened, and will reflect on 15 years in the public eye as a radical [...]

Film Preview: Decalogue, Monday 21 January

Tollcross Community Centre continue their series of free cinema nights on Monday 21 January with a screening of Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieslowski.

This is a series of ten shorts created for Polish Television, with plots loosely based upon the Ten Commandments, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Two of these, Dekalog 5 and 6, are shorter cuts from [...]

Talk Preview: Alan Grant, Tuesday 29 January

I am the law! That’s not my catchphrase (that’s verging on vigilantism, something itsonitsgone.com does not condone) but Judge Dredd’s. Which is a slightly laboured way to say that 2000AD and Batman writer (and Dundee-born) Alan Grant is coming to Edinburgh on his Lawmaster on Tuesday 29 January.

This is pretty exciting news for anyone brought [...]

Welcome to it’s on…it’s gone

Have you ever flicked through the newspaper, read a post on a website or spoken to a friend about some film, talk, theatre production or gig that sounds right up your street but which was on last week and for some reason you haven’t heard about it till now?
Annoying isn’t it? Well that’s the main [...]