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December 23, 2023
The highlight of the evening was a short play titled ‘Treason at Trewiddly’ based on the fictitious Trewiddly Manor
September 8, 2023
The paintings of two Bristol artists, Patti Leavitt and Barbara Klein, exemplify the beautiful views of Maine’s coastal scenes, villages and natural world available at the Pemaquid Art Gallery. Both long-time members of the Gallery, Leavitt works in...
August 24, 2023
Were I to overcome a lifelong scepticism about the healing powers of talk therapy, I imagine languishing on a psychiatrist’s divan and whimpering something along these lines: ‘All this “woke” stuff – I’ve even come to hate the word. Resisting its idiocies is taking over my life. I worry that I’m not setting my own
August 17, 2023
Two well-known local artists showing at the Pemaquid Art Gallery, Kathleen Horst and Cindy Spencer, create delightful watercolors but with charmingly different sensibilities. Horst is popular for her miniature, elongated composite views of our local...
July 25, 2023
Patients should routinely weigh themselves when visiting their GP in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, health bosses have said.
June 13, 2023
With bold color and lighting, and rich atmospheric effects, two Pemaquid Gallery artists, Sally Loughridge and Kim Traina, evoke an emotional response to their brilliant Maine landscapes. Traina works predominantly in soft pastels, whereas this...
June 13, 2023
With bold color and lighting, and rich atmospheric effects, two Pemaquid Gallery artists, Sally Loughridge and Kim Traina, evoke an emotional response to their brilliant Maine landscapes. Traina works predominantly in soft pastels, whereas this...
April 10, 2023
Cynical Therapies shows how social-justice activism is doing serious damage to troubled people.
October 12, 2022
The inaugural Scilly Dark Skies Week has just been held on St Martins island. Tamara Hinson dropped by for some star gazing and a Saturn selfie...
May 7, 2021
One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized...