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...theatrical lore, one should never utter the word “Macbeth” in a theater, unless it is during a performance of the play. Even during the production, it is referred to as “The Scottish Play,” and its lead characters as “M” and “Lady M.” If one should violate this rule, then either the specified blessing must be said immediately, or one has to leave the theater, turn around three times backward, and then knock on the theater door, and wait...
...ghosts of the Scottish play, however, are ones that visit all theaters. Here on the Harvard campus, there is a second specter which appears to the theater community from time to time, and which has recently been sighted once again: the apparition of a Theater Concentration...
Before the band took the stage, Scottish songstress Angela McCluskey opened at their Friday night FleetCenter show, a venue much more capacious and comfortable in the brisk autumn than their outdoor show last year at the Tweeter Center. McCluskey showed off her smooth and powerful voice on a handful of tracks from her debut CD Things We Do, and her band provided lush backing to her slightly raspy, occasionally soulful vocals. The performance set the stage for the rest of the night: behind the ethereal music and her slightly quirky vocals, the band rocked out, with her guitarist seeming even...
...Sunday Herald, a Scottish weekly, reported over the weekend that “riots loom” in Cambridge (ours, not theirs) as class-anxious locals awaited a verdict in the Alexander Pring-Wilson murder trial. The case “worries those who believe that tensions between town and gown could explode,” according to Herald “reporter” Claire Prentice, who also asserts that Harvard students are so shook up by the case that “few want to talk publicly about it.” (Tell that to the Crimson news...
German shepherds were the fourth most popular breed last year. The Scottish terrier is the 44th most popular breed, not that the popular vote really matters. The Scottie is a low-to-the-ground, very tenacious, impulsive dog. It tends to urinate on itself uncontrollably. But Kerry's dog Kim is problematic. The German shepherd can be aloof. It's not very fast acting...