Nicola Hicks
It is a srnrster place and it ensnared the writer Will Self. Nicola Hicks’s drawrngs and sculptures are of half-human, half-beast creatures that appear to inhabit a shadowy terrain. Last year, EngLit’s enfant terrible Visited the London-based artist’s studio and was so taken by her sculpture of a rabbit-l'reacled woman that he dashed off a short story about rt. Self’s dark tale, ’The Camel That Broke The Straw's Back', wrll accompany Hicks’s first solo exhibition in Scofland.
Prose And Cons is at the Gallery Of Modern Art, Glasgow, Fri 5 Nov- Sun 30 Jan.
IKEA
Pushed through the mailboxes of most Edinburgh households last month was the new IKEA 2000 catalogue as the Swedish home gurus prepared to make their Scottish debut. Causing normally reserved adults to l’iyperventrlate at the mere thought of lacquered aluminium pendant lamps, galvanised bins rpic‘turedl and sectionable sofas, the new store wrll offer thousands of designer-look home furnishing lines. Above all, rt wrll save on the weekend convoys to the Gateshead store.
IKEA Edinburgh opens on Thu 4 Nov, 70am, Straiton Road, Loanhead, Edinburgh, 0737 448 0500
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The World Stare-Out Championship Final
Alessandro Kampagnola. Sigmund Spassky. Yuri Uzlian. Lloyd Obidrah. Sid Hartha. Sports heroes one and all. Quite how this serious game made its way onto a BBC comedy sketch show -~ Big Train is bizarre and almost disrespectful. As the countdown to the final begins, tickets are selling quickly and it looks like being a complete 73,000 plus sell-out at the North Park Stadium. Enjoy complete, uninterrupted coverage of stare—out masters at work With match commentators David Joyce and John Barrington.
The World Stare-Out Championship Final by Paul Hatcher is published by Bloomsbury, priced f 7. 99.
6 THE UST 4—18 Nov 1999
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returned once we have adjusted and create merry havoc With our body clocks once again
During the changeover, the airwaves resonate wrth hilarious stories of loved ones expiring due to mistrmed irredic'ation administration Confused grannies, high on Dunkirk spirit, lrtter Argyle Street, rattling shop doors and demanding entrance to Poundstretcher at 7 30am. A thousand potential love affairs are dashed on the rocks of circumstance as lone figures freeze outside cinema doors and restaurant bookings go unchecked The nation drags itself from pillar to post, suffering the most horrendous case of temporal Jetlag, and yet nobody complains
Why? Well, in the past, kids didn't want to go to school in the dark Productrvrty levels fell as folk slipped into a daylight- deprrved torpor when they rose at 6am to mine the coalfac'e Rickets and scurvy aboundecl Life was grim It was time for drastic measures and so Greenwrch decided to colonralrse time. The once immovable concept of the 24- hour day became flexible, and now twrce a year we are expected to turn a blind eye to linearity in order to create the grand illusion of more daylrght
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Gill Mills co-presents Radio 1 '5 Evening Session opt-out, Session In Scotland, every Thu, 8-10pm; co-hosts The Loafers on BBC Choice, Tue-Fri, 10pm; and presents Hot Pursuits on BBC Knowledge, Radio Scotland.