Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Orkney Islands Council is set to explore its “Nordic connections” as it discusses alternative forms of governance which could see the islands’ legal status change Council leader James Stockan has put forward a motion which says it is time for Orkney to consider other forms of governance which could provide more economic opportunity It suggests this could include looking at crown dependencies such as Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man “Nordic connections” are also suggested, with a report going before a council meeting this week mentioning the Faroe Islands – a self-governing territory of Denmark in the North Sea. The council leader’s motion does not commit the council to any of these options and the officials’ report notes that any constitutional change would likely require a combination of petitions, referenda and legislation at Holyrood and Westminster. Mr Stockan told the BBC he felt that Orkney is being “failed dreadfully” by Governments in both Edinburgh and London. Funding is less per head than Shetland and the Western Isles receive, he said. Orkney was under Norwegian and Danish control until 1472 when the islands were given to Scotland as part of Margaret of Denmark’s wedding dowry to King James III of Scotland. Mr Stockan told the BBC: “We were part of the Norse kingdom for much longer than we were part of the United Kingdom. “On the street in Orkney, people come up and say to me when are we going to pay back the dowry, when are we going back to Norway. “There is a huge affinity and a huge deep cultural relationship there. This is exactly the moment to explore what is possible.” The Scottish Lib Dem MSP for Orkney, Liam McArthur, said he supported empowering island communities but warned there are dangers in “putting up barriers”. He said: “I am due to meet local councillors on Monday and will be interested to learn more about what is envisaged. “There were similar proposals considered by OIC around the time of the last independence referendum and I am keen to understand how these would differ. “Locally, I think islanders will also want to be reassured that this exercise won’t result in council resources being taken away from the day-to-day running of services at a time when these are under real pressure.” The Budapest Times 29 April:William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” – Örkény Theatre (1075 Budapest 29 April: “Ghetto Sheriff” – Örkény Studio (1075 Budapest 9 May:Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” – Örkény Theatre 15 May: Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” – Örkény Studio “Hamlet” tells the story of a prince whose duty to revenge his father’s death entangles him in philosophical problems he can’t solve Shakespeare’s best-known play is widely regarded as one of the most influential literary works ever written a ghost walks the ramparts of Elsinore Castle in Denmark… “Death of a Salesman”, a play in “two acts and a requiem” by Arthur Miller, was written in 1948 and produced in 1949. Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for the work which he described as “the tragedy of a man who gave his life or sold it” in pursuit of the American Dream “The Bell Jar”, a novel by Sylvia Plath, was first published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas and later released posthumously under her real name. The work, a thinly veiled autobiography chronicles a young woman’s mental breakdown and eventual recovery while also exploring societal expectations of women in the 1950s Plath committed suicide one month after the publication of “The Bell Jar” Website: orkenyszinhaz.hu For further information and booking, contact: english@orkenyszinhaz.hu You must be logged in to post a comment PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE 2007 - 2025 BZT MEDIA Kft. Design: GoOG Webdevelopment: diVid Forgot your password? You will receive mail with link to set new password Back to login two blocks in Greenwich Village have been home to a disproportionate number of New York City’s writers The two blocks in Greenwich Village that have been home to a disproportionate number of New York City’s writers In New York City, your neighborhood is not just where you live: It represents who you are. “People are community beings. And while you can think of the entire city as your community in abstract terms, you can’t really enact that,” says the writer Susan Minot who has lived on West Ninth Street in Greenwich Village since 1991 Throughout its many lives — as a rural hamlet in the 17th century home to a seven-block stretch that real-estate agents sometimes refer to as Manhattan’s Gold Coast — the Village has remained essentially residential and thus never without community Jefferies looks out from his perch on West 10th Street onto the buildings of an imagined West Ninth there is an undeniable coziness to their setup — clearly these are characters who are gambling on their talents The same could be said of Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell who were among the artists who lived in derelict Greenwich Village lofts and showed work in the watershed 1951 exhibition “The Ninth Street Show,” held in a rented storefront at 60 East Ninth Street (Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had opened her museum just a couple blocks away the streets go this way and that — it’s got a human scale to it.” But with that human scale comes actual humans and all the better if they’re as interesting as these neighbors are Kate Guadagnino is the deputy digital editor of T Magazine His work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art We’d often get together at my place or hers where there was a rotating cast of characters I remember Candace once throwing some glasses out the window because the Italian restaurant on the north side of Ninth I hesitate to mention it — it was a real den of iniquity but my life span will probably be longer because it closed Ninth Street feels like a bit of a time capsule I like to think it looks something like it did when the poet Marianne Moore lived here in the 1960s the women who wouldn’t be caught dead on the street in slacks or with their hair in a scarf There are very few of them left; each year I feel at home here — you know it when you’ve found a place you belong We could have used tin cans and a string to talk Ninth Street is one of those magical blocks and thankfully the neighbors are banding together to ward off encroaching development I’d just gotten a book contract and bought my place by the skin of my teeth It’s so far beyond and I can’t really afford the restaurants around here Even when I spent a chunk of the aughts living on an island in Maine I kept my apartment and was so grateful to have it to come back to It’s in a building built in 1885 with units intended as “gentleman’s quarters” and was a crumbling wreck when I got it I turned the small back room that was once the kitchen into my office But then you remember the things that are wonderful here though it’s mainly the variety of the people and the depths of the friendships You can spend a long time not knowing your neighbors One of the things I love about New York is that you don’t have to put on a face — you know you’re just going to be one in the stream I’m just passing through and I don’t really live here,” I will admit that oh yeah Right before we bought a building on Ninth Street my wife and I had been living on Bond Street in NoHo We’d always had lofts and apartments up until that point I go all the way in and make my place either all classical or all modern the exterior is completely classic while inside it’s very modern We put in oak floors like you might find in Paris and really not respectful of the Village — it’s too elevated and European and I don’t go out much or see anyone — I was surprised to learn just how creative my neighbors are You have everything in this neighborhood — if you want a lightbulb so that’s why you always see a lot of celebrities on the street — they’re going to see their shrinks and the Knickerbocker on University and Ninth is a really great place to go but mostly I like to entertain smaller groups of friends now The people in my building get together every once in a while; we have a dinner party and everybody brings something I had been traveling back and forth between New York and Austria for many years but I bought my place on Ninth Street in the summer of 1996 and settled there for good at the end of 1997 which is a rooftop apartment with a big terrace the living situation felt similar to what I’d had in Europe I wasn’t aware at the time that Ninth Street has a such a particular history — my building is full of artists but I had no idea this was true of the whole street the neighborhood hasn’t changed much optically and the relaxed feeling retains a “New York meets Paris” vibe I run into my neighbors on the street or in the elevator more than working a proper social schedule Jenny Holzer used to live for a while on Ninth Street My place on Ninth Street is the first place I ever bought It’s a townhouse that’s part of a pair of matching buildings dating from the 1860s built by a father for his twin daughters My property hadn’t been changed much at all so over the years I’ve been able to restore it An antiques dealer once told me if I’m ever facing financial ruin there was a super cool vibe in the neighborhood and Patricia Clarkson lived down the street There were lots of chichi restaurants back then and while New York has changed over the years Though I still spend far too much time at the Knickerbocker I’ve also gotten really into landscaping from May to October when the front garden is filled with flowers and I can create my own aesthetic I would say I have no block envy for any other block in the city A behind-the-scenes account of the making of the group portrait: On a mild, bright morning at the end of January, Casa Apicii a restaurant on West Ninth Street in downtown Manhattan was open early for a neighborhood reunion of sorts and a feeling of neighborly intimacy pervaded the space “Are the renovations going well?” inquired one in between sips of coffee “I was in Paris for a while,” said another in reference to a not-long-past dinner party composed of Ninth Street residents gathering for a photo shoot for T’s Culture issue But though it might not have been immediately apparent the heirs of the artistic sorts who lived and worked and gathered along this stretch of Greenwich Village in eras past drew a literary crowd — Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde dined there was a haunt for artists like Grace Hartigan and thus an incubator of the Abstract Expressionist movement the Italian restaurant Marylou’s played host to the debauchery of Jack Nicholson And long before 62 West Ninth housed Casa Apicii it was a gay bar where a then unknown Barbra Streisand once won a weekly talent contest The street is still home to artists and writers though they tend to be already established talents from the writer Michael Wolff to the designer Jonathan Adler Once everyone had arrived on this Friday morning now 23 strong and knotted together in ardent conversation Some started calling out the years they arrived on Ninth Street — “ninety-seven,” “ninety-two,” “eighty-seven” — enthusiastic as alumni at a homecoming bonfire As they stood together on a south-facing stoop the neighbors reflected on the magic of their spot in the city that old New York glamour,” said the writer Simon Doonan recalling his early impressions of Ninth Street “It does seem to have an inordinate number of people involved in the arts,” said Jay McInerney the beloved playwright who died of coronavirus complications last month He described a favorite photograph of his block that he kept as a screen saver on his computer “Our building fills the planter boxes with tulip bulbs — tulips are my favorite flower — and for one week each year it’s the most brilliant blaze of color,” he said Anti-tourism is not welcome on the Orkney isle where a community group has started a campaign to attract visitors (and residents) to the remote outpost with a ‘rich cultural life and sense of freedom’ It’s not uncommon to hit the new year with an overwhelming desire to quit your job, shed your responsibilities and flee to a tiny, isolated island to begin a new, simpler, perhaps even more meaningful life. Such disaffected folk should consider a move to the tiny Orkney island of Stronsay, Scotland (population 370) which has launched a campaign to attract visitors – and residents Promoting itself with a new brand and website, Stronsay is pitched as a world away from the big city lifestyle where Islanders “maintain a tight-knit community with a rich social and cultural life underpinned by a sense of place freedom and self-sufficiency that many city dwellers frustrated with the frenetic pace of modern life Skye residents called for “urgent help” to deal with a surge of tourists keen to visit beauty spots used as locations in TV shows and music videos is seeking support for its campaign from Visit Orkney and Visit Scotland and hopes it will be able to double tourist numbers over the next three to five years Among the attractions are Orkney’s “finest” natural sea arch at the Vat of Kirbister as well as the dramatic cliffs of Odin Bay Dianne Riley-Moore, a member of the community group behind the campaign, retired to Stronsay seven years ago from London and opened a craft centre on the island, the Craftship Enterprise “We hope that by increasing tourism we will be able to create additional jobs on the island that will bring more residents whether retirees or young families,” she said Whitehall village The community is active and friendly but everyone has the freedom to be as involved or as solitary as you please One person who made the jump to island life is Shirley Whiteman who moved from England with her family five years ago after responding to an advert for a community nurse friendly and welcoming community and have no regrets at making this beautiful island paradise our new and forever home,” she said Máriaremete és Remeteszőlős között terül el A Duna-Ipoly Nemzeti Parkhoz tartozó természetvédelmi terület az Ördög-árok nevű időszakos patak szurdokvölgye amelyet az egyszeri városlakó csak ritkán pillanthat meg hogy az Erzsébet híd budai lábánál torkollik bele a Dunába a Vérmező és a Döbrentei tér alatt halad át a budai oldalon 56-os villamosok Akadémia megállójától kezdve már beboltozott állapotban század végén a beleengedett szennyvíz bűzös kipárolgása miatt részben befedték A kirándulóhely ugyanúgy megjárható egy óra alatt amihez Hűvösvölgyből a 63-as busszal kell menni a Rácski telep megállóig; innen pár perces sétával elérhető az erdő széle (és az Örkény-telefonfülke Mi Hűvösvölgyből a szurdok másik felét közelítettük meg az 57-es busszal mert ha egy kis plusz sétát bevállalunk lakott területen útba ejthetjük a Máriaremetei kegytemplomot is (ehhez a buszokkal a templom nevével jelzett megállónál kell leszállni) nyári időben hangversenyeket is szoktak itt tartani Többféle túraútvonal is indul a templom elől többek között de nekünk az országos kéktúráéra kell rátérni Innen tízperces séta vezet az erdő széléig: előbb egyenesen a Himes úton majd a Bajnok utcára balra lekanyarodva leérünk az Ördögárok utcára amelyen lefelé haladunk a Csatlós utcával való kereszteződésig Itt figyeljük a jobb oldalt lévő kék jelzést mert itt kell lekanyarodunk Csatlós utcába A szurdok kanyargós sétaútja tanösvény is egyben bár az elhanyagolt táblákból nem akad túl sok de akár masszívabb babakocsival is végigmehetünk körülbelül 20 perc alatt Fő látványossága a szabadon látogatható Remete-barlang amely a pálos rend feloszlatása után ideköltöző remetéről kapta a nevét hogy épp filmet forgattak benne sámánokkal a gyártásvezető pedig nem engedett fel a közelébe Pedig az ösvényről leágazik egy meredek túraútvonal és ahonnan a hegy tetejére is fel lehet kapaszkodni megcsodálni a kilátást Az ösvény végén Remeteszőlős település szélére jutunk ki, és itt érdemes kicsit tovább sétálni, mert itt találjuk meg a 2013-ban felállított verselő telefonfülkét, amihez hasonlót Pilisszentlászlón is felállítottak a napokban. Az ötletet maga Örkény adta Ballada a költészet hatalmáról című egyperces novellájában melyben a sétáló telefonfülke a budai hegyekben találta meg helyét Az önkormányzat épülete melletti Bodzaliget Pihenő és Mezítlábas parkban fülkében a kagylót felemelve Hegedűs D Gábos Katalin és Oberfrank Pál olvassa fel nekünk az író rövidke történeteit Mellette található még a Vivaldit játszó zenélő ivókút egy könyvmegálló és a mezítlábas tanösvény is Innen visszasétálhatunk a szurdok bejáratához tehetünk egy körsétát is a kék jelzésű körúton a hegyen Itt már emelkedők és kisebb sziklatömbök nehezítik a járást és lefelé menetben is számíthatunk meredekebb lejtőre de előtte még megcsodálhatjuk a Máriaremetére nyíló kilátást – szépen látszik a Kisboldogasszony-bazilika karcsú tornya is Folytatnád az olvasást? Szeretsz mindig képben lenni, érdekelnek a legújabb budapesti hírek, történetek? Iratkozz fel heti hírlevelünkre The villa once owned by Gábor Lipták stands discreetly hidden behind a few tall birch trees by road 71 in Balatonfüred the host used to drink with literary figures Tibor Déry and Gyula Illyés - and even novelist István Örkény snored on his dining table Although the building today belongs to the Magyar Fordítóház Alapítvány (Hungarian Translators House Foundation) its history hasn't disappeared without a trace as poet Lőrinc Szabó used to refer to it mirelit (deep frozen) room - since the poet used to sleep and be cold here -,  and it still has the robust wooden table from the 1500s which Lipták supposedly traded from a Soviet soldier for a bottle of wine One of the room is the archive of Lipták's correspondence with writers and artists as well as his scrapbook that contains drawings and other pieces of art created after nights of drinking The same room also showcases a black dossier written and compiled with far fewer artistic inclinations The Ministry of Interior placed Lipták under surveillance from 1948 and his dossier grew to 800 pages throughout the years The writer and his wife could only suspect the existence of the dossier but could not be sure of it.The records quote his personal chats with Illyés Szabó Lőrinc and Örkény and their criticism of the system word by word The writer publicly confronted the authorities in 1955 where two people got into trouble due to an unexpected storm so the writer said that democratic police wasn't worth much The resulting police case dragged on long with regular interrogations and numerous hearings of witnesses and the Ministry or Interior opened his file in 1962 He was also suspicious since he had no registered job in Balatonfüred His wife (known to locals as Pulcsi néni - Aunt Sweater) worked in the folk art shop they had frequent guests: 'His income is cca while his expense reach about 4-5000 HF - how can he afford it if not by espionage?' stated one of the agents in a report The estimate was exaggerated: the days of the Liptáks were spent humbly They earned money time to time if Lipták could sell a few of his writings to a paper or if one his guide books were published thanks to his connections in writers' circles mostly lángos or whatever the guests brought: As Lipták discussed this period in one of his books: 'If anyone were to look around in our old house he would have taken mercy of the guests at once and discoloured shoes and socks adorned the honourable company in which the more tattered the merrier were people since their needs were similar to their clothes and everyone knew in those years especially that people like us didn't have the means of playing host they brought whatever they could to the table.' The artists from the west staying at the Lipták villa also caused much headache to authorities These arrived through the Magyar PEN Club and the Institute of Cultural Affairs According to the officer in charge of his file the Historian worked on turning the loyal persons visiting him against the Party through his false information and fearmongering Thanks to its vivid social life the Lipták villa was perfect for the surveillance of a number of writers and artist sculptor Miklós Borsos  and painter Elemér Vass also lived there Writer László Németh moved to Sajkod at the time while Tibor Déry moved to the nearby Tamás-hegy novelist István Örkény and the others were frequent guests at the Liptáks' home so it became the centre of their social life The bugs were installed in the small house on the same lot and some of Lipták's local acquaintances were recruited as agents a fellow writer of Balaton guide books and the caretaker of his vineyard also reported on him Éva Monspart there are several reports about the bugging of the place The agents reporting about Lipták offered a detailed a description how the tenant of the given house was let in on the action and the wife of the tenant were called to the local Council building so she wouldn't know about it We don't know whether Lipák knew about the whole surveillance issue For them the gates of the house weren't automatically open and if they were non grata in the given company they were turned down with reference to Lipták's important literary tasks The moles were quite annoyed by his cunning The one under the "Földvári" codename often added sarcastic comments to their reports: 'The pomposity of Lipták is a typical example of an enemy grown brash.' He was also accused of socializing with famous writers to satisfy his vanity he knocked on the door of Lipták and asked him to read a manuscript Lipták was the very first to read the novel The Toth Family which later was translated into several languages He was similarly close to other writers as well László Németh never failed to invite him to the premiers of his pieces in Budapest Lőrinc Szabó brought him and his wife books Lipták talked to the folk writers differently than he did to Örkény Their reports lacked enough substance and had too many of the 'probable' and 'possible' Gábor Lipták did what he could to live happily they divided the Balaton into Italian regions they picked snails from the garden in lack of import seas snails had its effect on his life: as time passed his writing were less and less accepted by papers his small vineyard became an important source of income for him The agents then tried to accuse him of wine falsification Lipták also 'lengthened' the wine: he poured water onto the once pressed pomace adding sugar to the grape juice afterwards The vintner working for him was also a mole since the laboratory In Budapest examining the wine samples found everything in order „Boat Lipták will never sink” – the writer used to tell his guests the system failed to find a grip on him - and of course the Party's literature policy couldn't allow cases to happen that would have scared loyal intellectuals away In the end the III/III-1 Department of the Veszprém County Police of the Ministry of Interior issued a summary on 19 APril 1968 with a new suggestion included: after compromising him since his guests are interesting from the operative point of view a head of department closed the file with the words that Lipták cannot be recruited the Liptáks left the house to the Translators House Their express wish was that the house should continue to serve literature after their death Although the Translators House Foundation often has to fight for survival the local government of Füred and state aid have helped them along Sándor Petőfi would be 200 years old this year language students were invited to recite his poem Reszket a bokor Because…) in the framework of the competition The applicants also had to choose an excerpt from a prose work such as István Örkény’s short story Az élet értelme (The Meaning of Life) or Sándor Márai’s short stories A hazugokról (About the Liars) and Arról hogy minden nap tovább kell menned (About That You Must Go On Every Day) came from Jilin University of Foreign Languages while thirteen students applied from Sichuan University of International Studies and Tianjin University of Foreign Languages was represented by ten students the organizers never dreamed that the competition would be so popular: sixty videos were submitted until 1 November The winner was Wang Yulin (Sarolta) from Beijing International Studies University who is currently a final year Bachelor’s degree student at Szeged University Chen Yilin (Erika) from Beijing Foreign Languages University won second place and Wu Ziping (Dorian) from the Communication University of China won third place The winner has been granted a two-week long scholarship for next year’s summer course at Debrecen Summer University The students winning second and third place have been granted a discount of 100 and 50 percent on the training fee of the first two weeks of the course his studio filled with the large canvases that have become his trademark Béla Máriás is hard at work creating another bizarre pastiche Máriás got his art training in Belgrade then broke all the rules when he came to Budapest to flee the war in 1991 Béla has spent the last 25 years staging wild live shows or art happenings Tudósok still play regularly at Budapest’s Kuplung “I looked at works by the most famous painters,” begins Béla and realized that so much of what is thought of as beautiful art is either tragic or the promotion of some kind of ideology – or both.” his upbringing in this region and his sense of the absurd forced him to look deeper “People get a sense of peace when they look at certain paintings,” he explains “Yet if they saw them in a different context I wanted to pack in feelings of fear or confrontation.” Béla didn’t have to look far for local inspiration “I used to go to the local supermarket to look at the display of magazine covers There in front of me were the most influential figures in society These were people who were most admired or at least looked up to read about his or her background and began to create an artistic world around them.” And everyone is instantly recognizable to the Hungarian viewer Béla then deposits each character within an incongruous setting and/or art genre Brutal 19th-century outlaw Sándor Rózsa is depicted as if by the pointillism of Seurat The Whisky Robber of 1990s’ lore looks straight out of ‘The Running Man’ by Malevich Hungarian bankers appear on the same bridge that Munch created for ‘The Scream’ This art is also being created at a time when creatives are under growing pressure to conform to the political will “I have to implement a punk attitude,” insists Béla Art has to protect the language of freedom.” Upstairs at the István Örkény bookstore near Nyugati station some two dozen works provide the viewer with a hilarious but thought-provoking visit iconic figures and images reinterpreted by Budapest’s ultimate iconoclast transform two small rooms into a platform for heated debate And if my works contribute to even one millimeter of progress then all of this would have been worth it.” www.drmarias.hu István Örkény bookstore District XIII. Szent István körút 26 Exhibition until April 14th Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-2pm www.orkenykonyvesbolt.com A kaposvári Csiky Gergely Színház Ahogy tetszik című vígjátékában 1974-ben - ő a bájos hogy 50 felett vagy – Borzasztóan öregítenek Így tudod reklámok nélkül nézni a YouTube-videókat: teljesen ingyenes A magyar színésznő 51 évesen vált anyává: válása óta egyedül neveli kislányát ma már édesanya: 36 évesen ennyire másképp néz ki Csifó Dorina Emlékszel a Macska-jaj szőke színésznőjére Lang Györgyi kétszer várt gyereket Kulka Jánostól: ezért nem született meg egyik sem A portion of Highway 5 in Flamborough was closed Wednesday (Sept 15) afternoon until well into the evening following a fatal car crash The Hamilton Fire Department Tweeted shortly after 1 p.m that they were responding to reports of a collision in the area of Highway 5 and Woodhill Road Hamilton Police said Hwy 5 from Lynden Road to Orkney Road is closed for the investigation A burgundy SUV and a silver four-door vehicle were found in a ditch at the northwest corner of the intersection the Hamilton Police said during a briefing The driver of the silver four-door vehicle The female driver of the burgundy SUV was taken to hospital It is not known whether speed was a factor in the collision 2021-09-15 13:20:31 COLLISION : #Flamborough Highway No. 5 W CLOSED from Lynden Rd to Orkeny Rd. #HamOnt — HPS_Traffic (@hps_traffic) September 15, 2021 2021-09-15 13:43:01 COLLISION : #Flamborough Woodhill Rd CLOSED both directions at Highway No. 5 W. #HamOnt — HPS_Traffic (@hps_traffic) September 15, 2021 UPDATE | F21019848 | Incident Type: MOTOR VEHCILE COLLISION – PATIENT TRAPPED – HIGHWAY | Add Info: VSA — HamOnt Fire Dept (@HFD_Incidents) September 15, 2021 Subscribe to INsauga – Ontario Headline News’ daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 gift card to Toronto Eaton Centre OR Sherway Gardens Get news delivered straight to your inbox.