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The Courier
21-05-2025
- The Courier
Wednesday court round-up — Stole single trainer and drug-drive crash
A thief who struck a man in the head with a bottle of vodka took only one of his victim's trainers and left behind his mobile phone. , 28, left his victim with cut eyebrow and eyelid in Caithness Place on August 18 last year and appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court by video link to prison to plead guilty to assault and robbery. Sheriff Steven Borthwick noted McAlpine is currently serving a 40-month sentence for wilful fire-raising following conviction in October last year and has previous for a life-endangering assault, for which he was given four years in detention. The sheriff jailed McAlpine for 23 months, to run consecutively to his existing term. Prosecutor Sarah Smith told the court witnesses saw McAlpine strike his victim's head with the vodka bottle while he was on the ground, then rummaged through his pockets. He kicked him again before walking away with one trainer, leaving a mobile phone and the other shoe. McAlpine was said to be 'intoxicated and aggressive' and witnesses told him to leave the area, which he did, before going to his victim's aid. Defence lawyer Paul Cook said McAlpine has an 'extremely limited' recollection of events and was 'suffering immensely' with drug and alcohol addiction. A Kirkcaldy DJ has been jailed for a decade for the repeated rape a young girl. , 33, will also be supervised for three years after his release. A Perth man caught with more than £2,500 worth of cannabis will be sentenced in October. Former groundworker previously admitted being concerned in the supply of the Class B drug at his Goodlyburn Terrace home on September 1 last year. The 36-year-old's home was raided by police and fiscal depute Andrew Harding explained to Perth Sheriff Court officers seized 266.88g of green herbal matter from bedrooms. Also seized were scales, bags, a tick list and a bong. The haul would be worth between £1,745 and £2,640 depending on the size of deals. Owen's solicitor Jim Caird said: 'He's on a community payback order at present and he is very much benefiting from that. 'His mental health certainly was not good at the time. He had been smoking cannabis heavily. 'He's come to realise that that was having a considerable effect on his mental health as well. 'He had a habit and was selling some to finance his own habit. 'It was quite a small margin he was making. He was selling it to friends, essentially.' Sheriff Clair McLachlan deferred sentencing until October for Owen to be of good behaviour and to check on the progress of his ongoing community payback order. A 20-year-old who pedalled drugs on Instagram and sold to schoolchildren behind a Fife doctor surgery has been given unpaid work as punishment. During one of 's deals in Dunfermline, a girl started vomiting and 'felt as though she could not move' after taking a pill. A 53-year-old woman crashed her car when she was on drugs. , of Sir James Black Road, Cowdenbeath, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court. The mum-of-six admitted that on November 1 2023 at Cardenden Road, Cardenden, she drove a car with excess amphetamine (329mics/ 250). Depute fiscal Catherine Stevenson said at 5.30am a local resident was woken by a loud bang and when he looked out of his window he saw his car had been moved. It had been struck by another car and shunted up the street by the impact. Campbell was in the driver's seat of her Nissan car 'in a daze with her head down,' added the depute. The emergency services were called and Campbell was initially taken to the Victoria Hospital. Defence solicitor Stephen Morrison: 'At that time, she was having significant difficulties and things had spiralled out of control. 'She no longer drives. Her eyesight has deteriorated and she no longer wishes to drive.' Sheriff Susan Duff banned Campbell from driving for three years and fined her £210. , 31, appeared from custody accused of striking Aberdeen footballer Jack MacKenzie with a seat after a match with Dundee United at the weekend. The player was allegedly left severely injured and permanently disfigured after a piece of a plastic seat was thrown from the away section at Tannadice Park. Gowans made no plea. A Perthshire domestic offender has received two years supervision after furiously breaking a mirror in his partner's home. , 38, appeared at Perth Sheriff Court to be sentenced having admitted acting in a threatening or abusive manner on May 26 last year. McPhee, of Clayton Road in Bridge of Earn, repeatedly shouted, swore, acted aggressively, made abusive remarks and violent threats at his partner's Kinross home and kicked a mirror, breaking it. Prosecutor Andrew Harding said McPhee woke up still drunk from the night before and accused the woman of using his money. He kicked the mirror and told her: 'You're lucky I'm not putting it over your f***ing head.' When police arrived, they found McPhee 'irate and agitated.' Sheriff Clair McLachlan placed McPhee under supervision and ordered him to complete the Caledonian Men's Programme aimed at rehabilitating domestic offenders. She said: 'Community payback orders don't seem to have worked in the past. He seems to have breached the last three orders he was on. 'We've been down this road before and it hasn't worked. This is very much an alternative to a custodial sentence. 'If you don't comply, that's really what we're looking at.'
Gulf Today
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut, coming at a perfect time
Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention. 'When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,' she says. 'I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.' The folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, 'Older,' with a role in 'Floyd Collins,' a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing. 'I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,' she says. McAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single 'Ceilings' went viral on TikTok, and 'Older' has been hailed by critics. Broadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an 'ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,' the AP said in a review of 'Older.' 'I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,' she says. 'I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.' 'Floyd Collins,' which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in. 'She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,' McAlpine says. 'It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.' McAlpine, 25, didn't know much about 'Floyd Collins' — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created 'The Light in the Piazza,' one of her favorite musicals. 'I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,' she says. 'It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.' McAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theatre in high school. Associated Press
Yahoo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut, coming at a 'perfect time'
NEW YORK (AP) — Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention. 'When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,' she says. 'I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.' The folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, 'Older,' with a role in 'Floyd Collins,' a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing. 'I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,' she says. McAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single 'Ceilings' went viral on TikTok, and 'Older' has been hailed by critics. Broadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an 'ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,' the AP said in a review of 'Older.' 'I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,' she says. 'I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.' 'In her own world' 'Floyd Collins,' which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in. 'She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,' McAlpine says. 'It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.' McAlpine, 25, didn't know much about 'Floyd Collins' — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created 'The Light in the Piazza,' one of her favorite musicals. 'I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,' she says. 'It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.' Broadway lured her McAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theater in high school. Her grandparents would take her and her siblings to Broadway every year, and her mom would sing 'Wicked' in the car. During the pandemic, she livestreamed Broadway covers on Instagram. 'She had a kind of unaffected directness and purity and honesty in how she approached the reading of the role, to say nothing of the singing,' says Tina Landau, who directed 'Floyd Collins' as well as supplied the book and some lyrics. 'I really felt that there was something in how unfettered and organic and unadorned her approach to it was that was perfect for the character, because Nellie just speaks truth.' McAlpine remembers seeing 'My Fair Lady' at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center — the same theater she graces in 'Floyd Collins.' 'Sometimes I'm on stage and I'm just thinking about I was in the audience one time, and it is just so crazy.' After the musical, she plans on another album, and the music that's coming out has been touched by the show. 'It feels like it's becoming more complex because I'm singing these songs that are so complex every day,' she says. After that, she's open to ideas, even to more theater. 'It has to be the right thing. This felt like it came to me at the exact right time in my life, and this was the exact right show for me. And so, if something else comes along, it would have to be the exact set of circumstances.' If that sounds like a singer-songwriter who is taking charge of her career, McAlpine would agree. She's done, for example, with an unhealthy pace to her tours. 'I'm finally at a place in my career where I can make decisions and do things that really align with myself. There was a while there before my last album where I was kind of just being pulled along, and I was just doing things because that's how everyone does them,' she says. 'I feel like I am now more sure of myself, and I know what I have to do to make myself feel comfortable. Even if it's outside of the norm or what other people do in the industry, I'm going to do it anyway.'
Winnipeg Free Press
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut, coming at a 'perfect time'
NEW YORK (AP) — Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention. 'When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,' she says. 'I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.' The folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, 'Older,' with a role in 'Floyd Collins,' a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing. Lizzy McAlpine poses for a portrait on Friday, April 11, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP) 'I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,' she says. McAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single 'Ceilings' went viral on TikTok, and 'Older' has been hailed by critics. Broadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an 'ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,' the AP said in a review of 'Older.' 'I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,' she says. 'I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.' 'In her own world' 'Floyd Collins,' which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in. 'She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,' McAlpine says. 'It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.' McAlpine, 25, didn't know much about 'Floyd Collins' — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created 'The Light in the Piazza,' one of her favorite musicals. 'I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,' she says. 'It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.' Broadway lured her McAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theater in high school. Her grandparents would take her and her siblings to Broadway every year, and her mom would sing 'Wicked' in the car. During the pandemic, she livestreamed Broadway covers on Instagram. 'She had a kind of unaffected directness and purity and honesty in how she approached the reading of the role, to say nothing of the singing,' says Tina Landau, who directed 'Floyd Collins' as well as supplied the book and some lyrics. 'I really felt that there was something in how unfettered and organic and unadorned her approach to it was that was perfect for the character, because Nellie just speaks truth.' McAlpine remembers seeing 'My Fair Lady' at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center — the same theater she graces in 'Floyd Collins.' 'Sometimes I'm on stage and I'm just thinking about I was in the audience one time, and it is just so crazy.' After the musical, she plans on another album, and the music that's coming out has been touched by the show. 'It feels like it's becoming more complex because I'm singing these songs that are so complex every day,' she says. After that, she's open to ideas, even to more theater. 'It has to be the right thing. This felt like it came to me at the exact right time in my life, and this was the exact right show for me. And so, if something else comes along, it would have to be the exact set of circumstances.' If that sounds like a singer-songwriter who is taking charge of her career, McAlpine would agree. She's done, for example, with an unhealthy pace to her tours. 'I'm finally at a place in my career where I can make decisions and do things that really align with myself. There was a while there before my last album where I was kind of just being pulled along, and I was just doing things because that's how everyone does them,' she says. 'I feel like I am now more sure of myself, and I know what I have to do to make myself feel comfortable. Even if it's outside of the norm or what other people do in the industry, I'm going to do it anyway.'
Hindustan Times
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut, coming at a 'perfect time'
NEW YORK — Lizzy McAlpine is surrounded by music these days. She's making her Broadway debut in a daring stage musical, and when she retreats to her dressing room, her own songs demand attention. Singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine makes her Broadway debut, coming at a 'perfect time' 'When the inspiration hits, I've got to write. I've got to have a guitar there or else I'll go crazy,' she says. 'I just kind of have to wait for them. I can't really force a song.' The folk-pop singer-songwriter is following-up last year's release of her third album, 'Older,' with a role in 'Floyd Collins,' a musical about life, death and fame. She calls it perfect timing. 'I was starting to feel like I wanted to do something new, and this kind of came at the perfect time. It's the first and only Broadway show that I've ever auditioned for,' she says. McAlpine has been building a sonic reputation for raw, stripped-down tracks and intimate, deeply reflective lyrics. Her single 'Ceilings' went viral on TikTok, and 'Older' has been hailed by critics. Broadway made sense for a woman who grew up watching shows in New York and who has an 'ability to infuse each song with character, as if acting,' the said in a review of 'Older.' 'I feel like all of my music has musical theater in it because I have loved theater for so long,' she says. 'I saw my first Broadway show and I was like 8, and so, it just kind of seeps into my music whether I am conscious of it or not.' 'Floyd Collins,' which just earned six Tony Award nominations, tells the tale of a hapless explorer who gets himself trapped in a Kentucky cave in 1925, triggering the first modern media frenzy. McAlpine plays Floyd Collins' sister, a woman who doesn't fit in. 'She is strange, definitely, but it's just because she's in her own world, and she sees the world differently than everyone else. She sees the beauty in it. She's like a sponge. She picks up everything that everyone is throwing out. She's just different. Not necessarily in a bad way,' McAlpine says. 'It explores being a young woman in the 1920s and being misunderstood and not listened to and not heard, and that's like been a theme in my life because I'm working in the music industry. I'm surrounded by men all the time.' McAlpine, 25, didn't know much about 'Floyd Collins' — it deputed off-Broadway in 1996 — but was a fan of its composer and lyricist, Adam Guettel, who created 'The Light in the Piazza,' one of her favorite musicals. 'I saw his name and I was like, 'Oh, I love him.' So I listened to the cast recording on Spotify from the original production and immediately was just hooked,' she says. 'It just sounded like nothing that was on Broadway now. It was just so unique, and I love that kind of stuff.' McAlpine, who was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended the Berklee College of Music, did theater in high school. Her grandparents would take her and her siblings to Broadway every year, and her mom would sing 'Wicked' in the car. During the pandemic, she livestreamed Broadway covers on Instagram. 'She had a kind of unaffected directness and purity and honesty in how she approached the reading of the role, to say nothing of the singing,' says Tina Landau, who directed 'Floyd Collins' as well as supplied the book and some lyrics. 'I really felt that there was something in how unfettered and organic and unadorned her approach to it was that was perfect for the character, because Nellie just speaks truth.' McAlpine remembers seeing 'My Fair Lady' at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center — the same theater she graces in 'Floyd Collins.' 'Sometimes I'm on stage and I'm just thinking about I was in the audience one time, and it is just so crazy.' After the musical, she plans on another album, and the music that's coming out has been touched by the show. 'It feels like it's becoming more complex because I'm singing these songs that are so complex every day,' she says. After that, she's open to ideas, even to more theater. 'It has to be the right thing. This felt like it came to me at the exact right time in my life, and this was the exact right show for me. And so, if something else comes along, it would have to be the exact set of circumstances.' If that sounds like a singer-songwriter who is taking charge of her career, McAlpine would agree. She's done, for example, with an unhealthy pace to her tours. 'I'm finally at a place in my career where I can make decisions and do things that really align with myself. There was a while there before my last album where I was kind of just being pulled along, and I was just doing things because that's how everyone does them,' she says. 'I feel like I am now more sure of myself, and I know what I have to do to make myself feel comfortable. Even if it's outside of the norm or what other people do in the industry, I'm going to do it anyway.' This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
