Posts by Kenny Smith
Moo-vie magic is coming to steak restaurant
A Scots restaurant has announced a series of experiential cinematic events, with the launch of The Kyloe Film Club. The first film to be shown at Kyloe Restaurant & Grillwill be Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, on June 8. The event will be a fully immersive culinary experience. Each of the courses and drinks will be…
Read MoreThe secrets of the whisky vaults are revealed
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has provided an insight into its diverse whisky warehouse to celebrate World Whisky Day 2019. The previously unreleased statistics shed light on arguably the world’s most varied single malt whisky warehouse, published by the SMWS to showcase the diversity of its whisky collection. Figures show that the members’ club stores…
Read MoreBrazilian’s artist to premiere first UK exhibition
Daniel Lie’s first UK solo exhibition The Negative Years will be unveiled to the public in Scotland this weekend. The opening weekend of Jupiter Artland Foundation’s 11th season, one of Scotland’s leading arts organisations just 20 minutes outside Edinburgh. The exhibition will use both indoor gallery and outdoor spaces at the sculpture park to create…
Read MoreAn amazing personal journey preserved in time
They say that the past is another country – so that must go doubly so for Last Bid for Freedom – An African Journey. The book was written by Ronald Macduff Urquhart, an accomplished Edinburgh lawyer, during his travels through Africa between 1951 and 1952. Amazingly, he wrote up his journal of his exploits at…
Read MoreTop award win for Glasgow restaurateur
Owner of Eusebi Deli, Giovanna Eusebi has won the title of Restaurant of The Year at Business Women Scotland’s Women in Hospitality and Tourism Awards 2019. Eusebi Deli has been based in Glasgow for over 40 years, offering an authentic Italian dining experience, with modern dishes, quality regional products and a passionate front-of-house team. The…
Read MoreScottish Time Lord Tennant is back in the TARDIS
Scots star David Tennant is back as Doctor Who in three new stories this week. Tennant, from Paisley, who played the Time Lord on television from 2005-2010, returns to the TARDIS in the trio of tales – two of which are written by fellow Scots, Jenny T Colgan and Roy Gill. The stories are available…
Read MoreWhy Fiona Kennedy has a song in her heart
Singer and producer Fiona Kennedy travels the world, but Royal Deeside and Aberdeenshire will always feel like home to her. She told Scottish Field in 2014 about her life and loves. When I’m flying into a city, I’m always interested to see what it’s like from the sky. A few weeks ago, I was travelling…
Read MoreA poacher’s tale – before he became a gamekeeper
We’ve all heard of the saying ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ – Scottish Field speaks to a man who has literally done that. Now an upstanding Highland gamekeeper in his fifties, 30 years ago ‘Finlay’ was a ‘rich, happy’ and prolific poacher on the Spey. He told Scottish Field: ‘I used to go to the pub with…
Read MoreCelebrating the works of painter Leon Morrocco
Leon Morrocco is in an understandably reflective mood. He spoke to Scottish Field in 2014, ahead of a retrospective of his work opening in Edinburgh and a show of new works in London. ‘It’s absolutely essential to go on learning and exploring,’ he says. It is this continuing enquiry that has been the hallmark of…
Read MoreGlass artist’s work took her into the Unknown
Glass artist Alison Kinnaird is combining traditional techniques with modern technology to add light to her sculptures. Alison was angry when she created ‘Unknown’. As an artist working with glass, Kinnaird channelled her rage into creating a piece that summed up her horror at the continuing wars around the world. ‘I started working on it…
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