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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,...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Sigur Ros ****
Sigur Ros met with huge applause and standing ovation on Tuesday night, as they took to the stage of The Edinburgh Playhouse for the last...
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 Festival Fringe REVIEW – Emma Sidi Telenovela ****
Emma Sidi is back this year at the Edinburgh Fringe with a fabulously fresh new show, Telenovela, a dramatic-beyond-reason Spanish-language soap opera comedy that...
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...
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 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...
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...
Mark Cousins unearths Antonia Bird’s Safe (1993)
Starring the wonderful Kate Hardie and Robert Carlyle, Safe, was shown at The Filmhouse on Tuesday as part of a season, with a post screening...
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...
Festival of Politics – Harry Benson CBE at Holyrood
Harry Benson CBE is a rare breed. He inspires adoration from press photographers across the world, but none more so than here in Scotland...
Council Leader will not seek re-election next May
Councillor Andrew Burns, leader of the council's Labour group, and Council Leader since 2012, has confirmed that he will be stepping down from political...
Lothian Buses invest in new tour fleet
Lothian Buses has made a major investment of £6.5m in a fleet of new buses for Edinburgh Bus Tours. The open deck buses have...
Law firm announce six promotions
Thorntons the Scottish law firm with its roots in Dundee has promoted six employees in a period of investment.
Two senior solicitors have risen to...
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Elsie Inglis to be commemorated in Edinburgh
First Minister welcomes EU nationals at Q & A in Edinburgh
Oysters and champagne on the Fringe
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW — Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth *****
CC Blooms seems darker than for Dandy Darkly's last visit to the Fringe in 2015. Maybe it's the interior redesign, or maybe it's just,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Adam Kay – Fingering A Minor on the...
Former Amateur Transplants front man Adam Kay returns to celebrate a decade at the Edinburgh Fringe with his eye-watering, audible-gasping and bum-clenching set of pun-fest...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW : Camille O’Sullivan – The Carny Dream ****
Under the Big Top of Underbelly's Circus Lafayette tent in The Meadows, French-Irish songstress Camille O’Sullivan strokes a series of her unsuspecting audience members...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Worbey and Farrell – Rhapsody*****
Raw talent might be sufficient in a Fringe act, but even with core ability in the first place, you have to practice hard to make anything out of...
Cameo reintroduce ‘Cameo Curated By’….
It's back! The Cameo cinema in Tollcross has reintroduced its Curated By strand which allows prominent locals to have a film of their choice...
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