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Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Lili La Scala – Songs to make you Smile (****)
Lili is a talented singer who specialises in the songs of the first half of the Twentieth Century from the composers such as Irving...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Sharron Matthews Superstar: Jesus Thinks I’m Funny (***)
Sharron certainly comes out in her show as being a very confident Canadian lady with a slick act that follows a script. She has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Anton’s Uncles (*****)
In this fresh and physical look at Chekhov’s ground-breaking play, Uncle Vanya, only the men remain, wrestling with their desires. The Los Angeles-based Theatre...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Lights! Camera! Improvise! (*****)
Lights! Camera! Improvise! by the Scat Pack is a rip-roaring laugh with fine acting from start to finish to a 170 seat audience.
All eight...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Review – The Curse of the Devil’s Verse (*****)
The Curse of the Devil’s Verse.
Sheep Soup (in association with The Television Workshop)
Soco Venue 348, Chambers Street.
Beer monster Rob’s immature, ego-centric cod-philosophy on life...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Ten Plagues
Star rating: ****
The big question was always going to be whether the Traverse Theatre’s starry collaboration between playwright Marc Ravenhill and singer Marc Almond...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Hamiltons – High Jinks with the Hamiltons (****)
Christine and Neil Hamilton are back for their 4th appearance, after a 2 year break, at the Fringe. Their familiar chat show is filled...
Fringe Review : Beef (*****)
The prospect of having to climb numerous flights of stairs to be shuffled into a slightly sweaty shoe-box of a performance space by polite but...
The Irrepressible Bean
Rouud, the pop-up Artisan Roast at Bruntsfield, celebrates its opening with a beer tasting today. The cafe at 138 Bruntsfield Place serves lunch as...
Vote for Edinburgh Castle!
People are being asked to support Edinburgh Castle and vote for it to win the best UK Heritage Attraction. The Castle has been named...
Save the Forest – a search for new roots continues
by Ken O'Neill
Eleven years ago, around a dozen friends saw the need for a non-commercially motivated creative space in Edinburgh. The friends were a...
Pop-up champagne bar opens today!
The Pommery Champagne Bar is celebrating the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, by offering a unique opportunity to view the exquisite interior of the Signet Library...
World Press Photo Exhibition at Holyrood 6 – 27 August 2011
The world’s premier photojournalism exhibition will open at the Scottish Parliament for its sixth year running from Saturday 6 August until 27 August.
Holyrood is...
Five things you need to know today
The Save Inverleith Park campaign has advised us that:- "The Report on Inverleith Park will NOT now go to the Policy and Strategy Committee...
Serious Assault on doorman in Queen Street
Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses after a door steward was seriously assaulted outside a bar on Queen Street, Edinburgh.
The 28-year-old man...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – W.R.E.N.S
W.R.E.N.S.
Venue 18. Sweet Grassmarket: City 1 Apex City Hotel.
Without a doubt one of the hot-ticket certainties for this year’s Fringe has to be the...
Armed Robbery Leith Walk
Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses following an armed robbery in Leith Walk, Edinburgh last night (August 3).
A man walked into William...
National Housing Trust gets going in Edinburgh
The first contracts to deliver affordable homes in the Capital have been signed under the National Housing Trust initiative.
Developer Places for People will deliver...
Fringe by the Sea 8 – 14 August 2011
From the moment the programme was announced and tickets went on sale, it immediately proved to be a record-breaking 4th Fringe by the Sea....
New business opening in Portobello
An international care company with more than 900 offices worldwide has found the ideal couple to open their first Home Instead Senior Care office...
Corn Exchange Ireland premiere Man of Valour at Traverse
Farrell Blinks is an office drone with an overactive fantasy gland. His imagined, heroic adventures offer violent release from the pressures and boredom of...
Five things you need to know today
In light of the phone hacking investigation, The Scottish Government has published details of all meetings that the First Minister has had over the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Fresher the Musical ***
This musical which is being staged at the Pleasance Dome needs just a little more polish to its acting. I will say that this...
Exam results break previous records
Exam results which show improved pass rates and an increased uptake of the Scottish Baccalaureate were welcomed today by Education Secretary Michael Russell MSP.
With...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival review – Scene of the Titans
Venue 34 Age guidance 12+ Chambers Street.
‘A New Musical with a lot of Balls!’ boisterously claims SCENE of the TITANS, an engaging, premier production...
Attempted Robbery in Salmond Place
Lothian and Borders Police are appealing for witnesses after a man attempted to rob a woman in a common stair in Salmond Place, Edinburgh...
Twitter used to announce safety camera locations
Central Scotland, Lothian and Borders and Tayside Safety Camera Partnerships are now using Twitter to inform motorists where safety cameras are located at the...
Edinburgh job – Process operator
We think this job sounds a bit more interesting than the title would first suggest!
It is based at the Agency for the Legal Deposit...
Harness racing at Musselburgh this weekend
Harness racing’s elite will be out in force at Musselburgh Racecourse this week as horses and drivers compete for the sport’s most prestigious title,...
Get yourself an Eco chauffeur in Edinburgh
eCorporate Travel has a clear objective – to become Scotland’s first carbon neutral chauffeur company. With the arrival of the first batch of Toyota...
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