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Printing Press has a new menu
The Printing Press Bar & Kitchen on George Street has a new seasonal menu.
The chefs make full use of all the ingredients available right...
Tram inquiry continues to gather evidence
The Rt Hon the Lord Hardie who chairs the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry has announced that he inquiry has begun to interview members of the...
TK Maxx open city centre store
TK Maxx opened a new city centre store on South St David Street last week with an opening ceremony conducted by the capital's Lord...
Underbelly’s Circus Hub closes tomorrow – catch it while you can!
The big tents on The Meadows have some wonderful circus acts to entertain you but Underbelly’s Circus Hub draws to a close tomorrow Monday, 22 August .
In...
Stage award for Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
We met some of the cast of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally and the writer and director on Friday and have just heard...
Police seeking witnesses to assault in Northfield
Edinburgh Police are looking for any witnesses to an assault and robbery in the east of the city which took place in the early hours.
The incident...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review: Lara A King – Not Broken, Just Bent ***
Step away from the hustle and bustle of the big theatre and multi-layer seating auditoriums across the vast Fringe, to pick up a performance...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Michelle Wolf – So Brave ***1/2
American Fringe debutant Michelle Wolf certainly leaves an impression in her solo show at the Pleasance with a busy repertoire of anecdotes and jokes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 Review: Andrew Ryan – Ruined ****
Down in the basement of the Assembly Studios is Andrew Ryan. The Irish comedian returns to Edinburgh to play his first Festival outside the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Don’t Push The Button (The Techtonics) *****
Photo credit: Joe Martinez
I have a confession to make. I have seen Don’t Push the Button two and a half times. The first time...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Morgan & West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show...
Time-travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West return to unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility. Witness a mountain of mysterious magic, a hatful of hyper-reality,...
Rugby – Heriots v Melrose, BT Charity Shield Match
Six-try Melrose take BT Charity Shield in Edinburgh.
Heriots hosted Borders side Melrose at Goldenacre for the pre-2016-17 season BT Charity Shield match under leaden...
Letter from Scotland
On just about the hottest, driest, sunniest day of the summer, Scotland’s 680,000 pupils made their way back to school this week. The long...
Five things you need to know today
MSP fighting Bank of Scotland Branch closure
Enjoy the Barra MacNeils tomorrow!
Live classical music for babies
Join the Food Tasting panel at...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Ayesha Hazarika: Tales from the Pink Bus ****
Awaiting the arrival of Ayesha Hazarika, the former political adviser to Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband, the‘Pink Bus’ song filled the room with as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: When You Improv On A Star (The Cambridge Impronauts)...
Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Horse McDonald in Careful *****
Horse McDonald is one of Scotland’s finest singer / songwriters with a successful career spanning over two decades that has included tours with Tina...
Edinburgh MSP calls for answers from Bank of Scotland on branch closure
Gordon Macdonald MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands led a delegation of local councillors, members of Currie Community Council and representatives of the local business community...
Forest Fringe 2016
Forest Fringe is an artist-led organisation making space for risk and experimentation. Now in their tenth year, they’re celebrating with a
best of retrospective.
Originally based at the...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Measure for Measure ****
From the offset, it’s evident that Declan Donnellan’s Measure for Measure is going to be bold and modern.
There is no elaborate set to establish...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : History History History
History History History is a show about the complicated and knotty narratives of history, told through a loose “translation” of a 1956 Hungarian Football Comedy.Deborah Pearson is...
Musselburgh Racecourse horse around on the Fringe
One of Scotland’s top racecourses tried to ensure that there were ‘neigh’ festival blues this year as it continues its celebrations into September with its exclusive...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother (V82)
"Can you stay true to yourself, when everything suggests you change? 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in Smother: a story of two men's...
Traditional Building Festival 23 -27 August 2016
Next week there is a festival with a difference which will begin with some talks on the Canongate.
You can go along and see how...
Edinburgh International Festival – Scottish Ballet
Sensuality, brutality and spellbinding spectacle come together in a double bill of major contemporary dance works from Scotland’s national ballet company, radically contrasting in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Grant Stott’s Tales from Behind the Mic ****
This is a real Edinburgh gem.
We are used to hearing his warm tones on the radio, behind the mic at a charity event or on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother and Feel-Link (V82)
Lithuanian dancers Airida Gudaitė and Laurynas Žakevičius of the company Low Air performing their show Feel-Link at ZOO Southside and dancers from London based 201...
Five things you need to know today
Did you read at the Iraq Out and Loud event? Then read this!
Yesterday at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Dame Kelly...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – My Leonard Cohen
Few bodies of musical work rouse, seduce and are of such solace as that of the great Leonard Cohen. Stewart D’Arrietta’s musical interpretations are gutsy and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Deliciously Stella ***
Sold out and packed, Bella Younger took her character Deliciously Stella to the Pleasance Courtyard to give the punters a tongue-in-cheek lecture on Smug...
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