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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Just Festival 2015 : After Freedom***
'You were oppressed: I am free'
Apartheid is history; the youth of South Africa want to get on with their lives - but should they...
Stellar Quines wins Fringe First for new writing
Scotland’s Stellar Quines are delighted to announce that The Deliverance, the final play in Jennifer Tremblay’s powerful and evocative trilogy, translated by Shelley Tepperman and...
Community Triage Pilot launched today
Police in Edinburgh are embarking on a partnership initiative with NHS Lothian to improve engagement with members of the public living with mental health...
Knifepoint robbery in Sciennes Road
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was robbed at knifepoint in Sciennes Road around 2am this morning.
The 26-year-old was walking along the road when...
Six arrests following city centre robberies
Six people have been arrested and charged in connection with a number of robberies, which have taken place in Edinburgh city centre over the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015 begins tomorrow!
Now even if you can't get along to Charlotte Square you may be able to keep up with what's happening there.
In a collaboration with...
Edinburgh Councillor blogs – Councillor Maureen Child
New pigeon netting is due to go back on Brighton Place/Southfield Place Bridge to keep the pesky pooping pigeons away after Network Rail have inspected the...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Edinburgh Art Festival Curators' Tours - Kwang Young Chun: Aggregations. Dovecot Gallery's Exhibition Curator Kate Grenyer tours the Aggregations exhibition and talks about the...
Five things you need to know today!
Tram inquiry
Fringe tip of the Day
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
Grafton Community Gardeners AGM
Colony of Artists 2015
If you're not doing anything else next week you...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Gamer Gamer ****
By Craig Todd
HAVING to wait 10 minutes due to a technical issue was not ideal, nor was having no sound.
Yet, James Smallman did a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 – Honest to Godley *****
by Craig Todd
Those who know of Janey Godley’s work knew what they would get.
Foul-mouthed, rude and abrasive, fans loved what she had to say...
Boxsmall Market to host Fringe preview shows
Enjoy children’s shows at Boxsmall Market’s ShowBox
Boxsmall Market will be hosting previews of Edinburgh Festival Fringe children’s shows at its ShowBox where families will...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Lynn Ruth Miller: Get A Grip ***
It is very hot in Studio 5 of C venues: C Nova.
'Anyone who falls asleep, I forgive them...this is going to turn into a...
Witness appeal following series of break-ins
Police are appealing for witnesses following a series of break-ins to commercial premises in Loanhead, Peebles and Edinburgh which happened on Sunday 9th August in the...
Police dedicate weekend to motorcycle safety
Hitting the road on your motorbike this weekend? You’ll be joining dozens of Road Policing officers across the East of Scotland who are dedicating...
Police advice for revellers to keep safe during Festival
Police in Edinburgh, along with their partner agencies, are issuing advice and providing support to keep Capital revellers safe during the Festival.
Many of the...
Thursday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Comic Art Workshop with Kev F Sutherland: find out how easy it is to write and draw comics and manga! A free comic art...
Five things you need to know today!
Planning permission granted for hotel
Free music at the National Museum of Scotland
Maggie's Summer Fair
Festival Tip of the Day
Leith Walk Police Box
The planning committee...
Creative Scotland achieves gender balance
Creative Scotland has become the first public body to meet the First Minister’s recent call for all boards in Scotland to achieve a 50:50...
Falkirk Development Squad 3-3 Hibernian Development Squad
A strong Hibs' Development squad featuring first team squad players Danny Carmichael, Martin Boyle, Antonio Reguero and Alex Harris (pictured) drew 3-3 draw away to...
Eight-year-old boy injured in road traffic collision on Queen’s Drive
Police are appealing for witnesses following a road traffic collision on Queen’s Drive at 5.40pm today.
An 8-year-old boy sustained serious injuries and was conveyed...
Police revisit scene of sexual assault in Craiglockhart
Police will tonight revisit the scene of a sexual assault that took place in the Craiglockart area one week ago.
A 21-year-old woman was returning home...
Concern for missing teenager
Police are appealing for information to help trace 15-year-old Shanice Henry who was last seen in the Howdenhall area at 10pm on Monday 3rd August.
She...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Joanna Neary: Faceful of Issues ****
Joanna Neary’s 2015 show ‘Faceful of Issues’ continues her tradition of basing her comedy shows around colourful characters. This year she becomes the delightfully...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Festival of the Spoken Nerd ****
The geeks are coming out of the lab and into the spotlight. In a culture where we are becoming bored with vacuous c’lebs, and...
Wednesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Celebrity Organ Recital: Tom Bell, one of Britain's foremost young international recital organists, presents a programme centered on Schoenberg's monumental Variations on a Recitative, plus Dupre...
Tuesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Holmliaskolenes Musikkorps: Norwegian School Marching Band. A youth wind band from Oslo, Holmliaskolenes Musikkorps has 35 members, all aged between 8 and 23 years;...
Five things you need to know today!
Urgent news from Fringe by the Sea
Fringe tip of the Day
RSNO promote Assistant Conductor
Last week of Pringle exhibition
The Open University at the Book Festival
A...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – How to Keep an Alien ****
Forget notions of spaceships and little green men this is a true life story of love overcoming distance and red tape.
The ’Alien’ is Kate...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW — Girl From Nowhere *****
For an hour each afternoon this month, the Pleasance That theatre is transported to Texas in 1969 for Girl From Nowhere.
That this is achieved...
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