John Osborne

Local female politicians say glass ceiling doesn’t exist anymore, despite Clinton and Palin losses

President-elect Barack Obama shattered the glass ceiling for African-Americans in politics with his historic election on Tuesday, but another segment of the populace fell just short in its bid to do the same during the 2008...

Obituary: Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie, who has died aged 90, was a vivacious Glaswegian who found fame on the West End and Broadway stages in the 1940s and 1950s, but was known to a wider audience from 1976 as seen-it-all, truth-telling Myrtle Fargate...

Hilton Als: Peter Brook on the politics of belief.

As a child, the director Peter Brook, the son of Latvian Jews who emigrated to Britain in 1914, showed an interest in photography, along with other aspects of the mechanics of illusion. He staged his own version of “Hamlet” in...

TV: It's been years since comedy writers Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton had a TV hit. But with...

Published Date: 02 November 2008 THIS could be a sweeping generalisation and therefore grossly unfair, but Camden seems like the kind of place where people talk rather than do, and this non-doing is done in hats. "Yes, it's a...

“I address life first”

Gieve Patel’s plays explore electrifying themes drawn from the dark side of life. Photo: SHASHI ASHIWAL POETIC LANGUAGE: Gieve Patel’s plays go beyond mere realism. To enter the world of Gieve Patel’s plays is to ready oneself...

Early voting wraps up in Collier, Lee with heavy turnout

Shorter lines expected at early voting sites didn’t necessarily translate to short lines at sites in both Collier and Lee counties on Saturday. With a record turnout expected for Tuesday’s presidential election, more than...

In Depth: On set with Kirill: Year Zero

TechRadar was given exclusive on-set access to the filming of Kirill: Year Zero, Microsoft's new sci-fi series that's set to take the internet by storm.Halliford Film Studios is slap-bang in the middle of Suburbia. Based in...

New Red Sox deal a home run for South Lee businesses

If you build it, they will come. Tourists, that is. With Tuesday’s 3-1 vote by the Lee County commissioners to construct a new Fenway Park-style spring training facility for the Boston Red Sox somewhere between Daniels Parkway...

Bus drivers show off their steering skills during annual Bus and Paratransit Roadeo

Sometimes it takes a bad pun to describe some awfully good driving. Several hundred people turned out to cheer for their favorite drivers during LeeTran’s annual Bus and Paratransit Roadeo in the parking lot of Edison State...