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Ryan Reynolds No Longer Leading Summit's Reboot of 'Highlander'

Back in the fall of 2011, director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Intruders, 28 Weeks Later) was hired to direct Summit Entertainment's film reboot of the fan favorite franchise Highlander.

KT Tunstall readies for a round North American concerts

Scottish singer/songwriter KT Tunstall will follow up some summertime dates in the U.K. with a fall trek through North America, supporting her new album, "Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon.

Famous Grouse maker to expand US operations

Edrington, the Scottish company that owns whisky brands The Famous Grouse and The Macallan, is to invest in further export growth in the US after doubling sales there over the past four years.

UK Chart Update: Mariah Carey #Beautiful ft Miguel

In addition to previously reported chart placings, Mariah Carey is also featured on the following Official UK Charts this week: Official Welsh Singles Chart 20. Beautiful – Mariah Carey ft Miguel (no change) Official Scottish Singles Chart 55.

Ken Macleod on IainBanks

CBC radio's excellent magazine show As It Happens conducted a short, lovely interview with Scottish sf writer Ken Macleod about Iain Banks, who had been his friend since high school. It's a beautiful piece of audio, and a heartfelt one. My condolences, Ken.

Why Oh Why Did Apple Abandon Cat Names For OS X?

This post was originally posted on our Say Media sister site, Catster. We're republishing it here with permission.


Since 2001, Apple Inc.

Gerard Butler Uses His Butt Crack To Crack Some Nuts!

Gerard Butler did the unthinkable on our favorite German TV show, Wetten Dass..!
In fact, things just got downright Out…Of…Control!
The Scottish actor seemed a little hesitant when the show's TV host asked him to help out in cracking some walnuts in German - but

Detailed obit of IainBanks

Iain Banks died yesterday. The Guardian's John Mullan does justice to the long and important career of one of the best writers in two fields:

In 2010 he gave an interview to BBC Radio Scotland in which he spoke with painful frankness about the breakdown of his relationship with his first wi

Austerity: the greatest bait-and-switch inhistory

Mark Blyth, a delightfully sweary Scottish economist, talks for about an hour to Googlers about the stupidity of austerity as a means of recovering from recession, describing it in colorful, easy-to-grasp language.

Arsenal, Wenger And Arshavin - Where Did It All Go Wrong?

 "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

So said Winston Churchill in 1939. Arsenal fans and observers may have thought something similar this week as Russia international Andrei Arshavin"s time at the Emirates came to an end.