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Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, which used to be the Queen Mary library, for meetings or lectures and has your eye started wandering around the room? In doing so your gaze may have rested on several busts clinging to the edge of life on the balcony, looking down on us. This week the focus is on Lord Byron. A series by Special Collections Information Assistant Anne Marie McHarg.

Mad, bad and dangerous to know - so one of Byron’s many lovers dubbed him. What part did his Aberdeen childhood play in his reputation?

Bands come and bands go. That is the nature of popular music. Sure, some stay and go on to become the stuff legends. That is always the hope and the prayer.

Necrophiliacs and dancing bears: meet the wild artists of the Society of Dilettanti A series of works on show at Sir John Soane’s Museum was funded by an 18th-century group who were truly mad, bad and dangerous to know 20 May 2021 • 5:00am In their cups: various members of the Society of Dilettanti (1778), as painted by Joshua Reynolds Credit: Alamy All the boisterous patrician privilege of the Bullingdon Club crossed with the artistic hunter-gatherer instincts of the Tate trustees: that wa...

Steve Wong, Times-News correspondent A few weeks ago, I saw a Facebook event posting for an “electric violinist.” Now there’s a listing you don’t see every day when looking for “live music” in Hendersonville.  Granted, sometimes I see fiddlers who play bluegrass or country. I see an occasional violinist who is part of a band or ensemble. This might be the first time I’ve seen an electric violinist playing solo at one of Hendo’s popular venues. I was intrigued and wanted to know...