This tour delivers it with humor, ease and unbounding talent.

Bianca Marroquin and Terra MacLeod, who starred in the tour that visited Shea’s in 2005, are still kicking away as Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, the sexy murderesses at the heart of “Chicago” whose thirst for blood is matched only by their lust for fame.

via ‘Chicago’ delivers a satisfying dose of subversive medicine : Entertainment : The Buffalo News.

He said it was the “gems” in among the big names and the opportunity for visitors to discover new or less well-known talent that had made the festival the foremost literary event in the world.

Mr Holloway recommended the Canadian author Alistair MacLeod

via BBC NEWS | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | ‘Take a chance’ on Book festival.

History professor James MacLeod, 43, is hoping his tongue-in-cheek approach to climate change will land him the coveted prize of science’s most socially conscious, and not to mention wittiest, doodler.

The Greenock-born dad of two now lives in Indiana where he teaches at the University of Evansville.

via Scots cartoonist draws his own conclusions on US politics « Deadline Press & Picture Agency.

For many of you, Hugh MacLeod will need no introduction. Others will be intrigued to discover a creative entrepreneur who has built an unlikely and utterly idiosyncratic business based on “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”.

via An Interview with Hugh MacLeod, Cartoonist | Lateral Action.

Live recording of P/M Donald MacLeod’s farewell public performance in the Dorchester Hotel, Glasgow November 1977 with Duncan Johnstone as guest piper. You can hear from the reception that the audience obviously had a great affection for PM MacLeod. Duncan Johnstone’s piping on the first half of the CD is stunning! There are also two Gaelic songs sung by Donald Ross and Archie MacTaggart. Recorded with the support of the Scottish Pipers’ Association. £11.25 (£12.50 for first time customers).

via Pipers’ Ceilidh – Live recording of P/M Donald MacLeod’s farewell public performance – The Taransay Fiddlers.

Featuring singers Jennie Mulqueen, Lorna Jane Norris, Beth MacLeod, Neil Harrelson and George Cordes, the program is a compilation by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Library, with just enough dramatic interplay to make it more than a concert.

via This will be some ‘Enchanted Evening’ – Quincy, MA – The Patriot Ledger.

Susan McPhail has a fresh take on the old story of Colonel James Macleod, Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, visiting Calgary House and returning to Canada to change Fort Brisebois to Fort Calgary. I have often heard it said in Canada that Macleod had relations at Calgary House. We are now told a local legend that he had a woman friend at the house which creates a new possibility: that he had relations in more ways than one!

via Argyll News: This Is Who We Are meets Who Do You Think You Are | For Argyll.

Congratulations to Roddy MacLeod MBE, Principal of the National Piping Centre who last night retained the Silver Chanter in Skye. He played Rory MacLeod’s Lament and the Judge was Malcolm MacRae.

via Silver Chanter Success for Roddy MacLeod at The National Piping Centre.

The late Charlotte MacLeod taught the rest of the mystery community how to write humor with straight characters. The Kelling clan will keep you glued to your seat as we find Sarah Kelling, for the first time, trying her best to weave her way through intricate puzzles, while preserving her place within the family circle.

MacLeod was a master of plot with few dull moments and her pace never lags. Sarah loses her husband and finds her mate, but those are other books in this fun-filled series.

via MacLeod Charlotte – M.

New events added to the Edinburgh International Book Festival line-up include Alistair MacLeod on Fri 28 Aug, who arrives to discuss No Great Mischief.

via Alistair MacLeod, Libby Purves and more Carol Ann Duffy | Edinburgh Festival Guide.