*There will be a few different reviews as there was so much to see! There is a big debate going on with a certain luxury tax imposed on sanitary goods for women. It is my understanding that the proceeds are then donated to organisations geared towards women, but the question is still why? In a…
Review It! DCA Exhibit
Duncan Marquiss Copying Errors I am quite the advocate for supporting local. I participate in Small Business Saturday, buy at boutiques, produce from farmers markets, quaint coffee house and such. When I saw the new exhibit at the DCA was from a DJCAD graduate, I w’s quite excited to view it. Then, I sat in…
Review It! – DP&L Ship Collection
The pamphlet states Introducing the DP&L Ship Model Collection. There are eight different ships pictured but when inside the museum I saw about three or four of them. The size of the models were quite impressive, and reading the history behind them was quite interesting. It may have been too early in the exhibit to…
Bit of Banter
A note from the editor Walking is one of my favourite pastimes. As Yogi Berra once said, ‘you can observe a lot just by watching.’ The other day I was in the city centre walking home along the Nethergate and I saw a young guy with a large takeaway bag from McDonald’s and a large jug…
Review It! Book Edition
Then Came You (2011) Jennifer Weiner Simon & Schuster Borrowed from Blackness Library Four women from different paths in life. A young student from a working class family, a young wife and mother, a privileged twenty-something, and her misunderstood stepmother . Jules, Annie, Bettina and India have one person in common: Then Came You. The…
Bit if Banter
Birthday Edition May 12th may be like any other day of the year. You’re almost halfway through May, and for the calendar year at that. To some people May 12th is an historic day. 91 years ago Lawrence ‘Yogi’ Berra was born in The Hill, St Louis, Missouri. Growing up in a family very passionate…
Playing in the Park!
Broughty Ferry Edition The sea water runs through my veins. Growing up the Jersey shore was my favourite place to go whether for the day, afternoon, or just for pizza. Although the beeches differ, and the summer weather doesn’t exist in Scotland, I still can’t play favourites. There is something very special about the beach…
Playing in the Parks!
I’ve been cheating on Balgay and have been spending time at Magdalene. People are having a BBQ for supper, playing rugby, football, even odd forms of baseball with a tennis racquet. You don’t see that everyday. With the bandstand being cleaned, you lose just a bit of the parks appeal. The scaffolding hides the beauty,…
The American Expat
By Taylor Ham Sometimes you need an escape. Dundee has a lot to offer, but sometimes, for your sanity, you need a trip away. St Andrews, for me, is just that place. Growing up in New Jersey, I have two favourite towns to visit: Cape May and Princeton. Princeton is known for its world class…
Review It! Movie Edition
Son of Saul DCA Sonderkommando. By definition sonderkommandos were, for the most part, Jewish prisoners in Nazi death camps that assisted with the disposal of casualties of the gas chambers. Either help or die – that was the motto. Saul Ausländer was a sonderkommando. Ausländer, upon cleaning a gas chamber after an innocent group was…
The American Expat
By Taylor Ham The weather. Why?! The suns out, but it’s also raining. This Scottish weather is taking the pass outta me. Moving seems to be what my life is made up of in Dundee. I live in student accommodation for 10 months. I then move into my very own flats and that lasted for…
Bit of Banter
*A wee note from the editor about this weeks happenings around town Oh Monday morning, you always come too soon. Why must you rain on this Bank Holiday? This weeks forecast is at least in the double digits for Dundee! Today’s high will be 12 and it’ll be in the teens the rest of the…
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