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COMPETITION – Win 2 tickets to Tanyalee Davis at the Assembly Rooms
In 2012 life threw Tanyalee - a life-loving, world-touring comedian - a curve ball. Five thousand miles from home, she got a life-threatening blood...
Fire in city centre restaurant closes street
Around 50 firefighters attended a city centre blaze earlier to bring the fire under control and also search for any casualties.
Scottish Fire and Rescue...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Kind ****
Skildir (Catriona Stirling) has a lot going on in her life, including (but not limited to) an abusive stepfather, an army of creepy puppet...
Five things you need to know today
Fire in Hailesland - Community cafes plotted on a map - Tonight at the Queen's Hall - Whisky Tours launched - Edinburgh Festival Fringe Pick...
Restaurant Review: The Magnum
The Magnum – A dog friendly pub in the heart of Edinburgh
The Magnum has always been very much a favourite ‘local’ of mine so...
Edinburgh Festival cocktail competition launched on a taxi
“Drinks Company of the Year” runner up Hi-Spirits has teamed up with taxi advertising company Ubiquitous to brand a fleet of high profile Mercedes...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Janey Godley Is Ungagged ***
Janey Godley Is Ungagged, Gilded Balloon Teviot 6:45pm, until 15 Aug, £12/10 (£10/8 concessions)
With what could be the most welcoming entrance 'piece' to any...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – The Colour Ham ****
The trouble with magic shows is the whole 'it's bad form to write about what happens in case you ruin the surprise' thing. It's...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Circles of Love ****
Circles of Love, St Andrew's and St George's West, George St 7:10pm and 8:40pm, until 10 Aug, £10 (£8 concessions)
Having seen Edinburgh Music Theatre...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Joe Lycett – If Joe Lycett Then...
Joe Lycett - If Joe Lycett Then You Should've Put a Ring On It, Pleasance Upstairs 19:15, until 25 Aug, £10/9 (£8.50/£7.50)
Many comedians title...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – An Actor’s Lament ****
http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/actorslament250.jpgSteven Berkoff , thespian institution, or national treasure? Both such dubious accolades would appall him I’m sure, and in this latest play at the...
Musselburgh Races today stages the Archerfield Cup
The £25,000 inaugural Archerfield Cup Class 2 handicap at Musselburgh today has pulled in a competitive field.
Run over 1m 6f, John Quinn's dual winner...
Tian Tian ‘may give birth in a month’
There is a possibility that Tian Tian the female panda at Edinburgh Zoo may be expecting the pitter patter of panda paws in little...
Fire in Murrayburn
There are reports this evening of a fire in Murrayburn which may involve...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Aisling Bea: C’est La Bea ****
Aisling Bea: C'est La Bea, Gilded Balloon Teviot, until 26 Aug (except 13), £10.50/9.50 (£9.50/£8.50 concessions)
Aisling Bea’s energetic and fluid performance in her first...
Council makes its pitch for National Performance Centre for Sport
Details of Edinburgh’s bid for the National Performance Centre for Sport (NPCS) were announced today following the bid team’s presentation to the judging panel...
Fashion – Summer warmth is still here but where have all the summer clothes...
Contributed Article
Have you wandered down Princes Street or George Street lately? It’s full of autumn clothes! Now, don’t get me wrong, the Scottish skin...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 – REVIEW – Croft & Pearce ****
Croft and Pearce, Gilded Balloon Teviot, until 26 August (except 14) 4:30pm, £9 (£8 concessions)
Featuring sketch after sketch after sketch (quite literally), Croft and...
Police issue missing person appeal
Appeal for missing person, Edinburgh
Police in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses about a 49-year-old man who has been reported missing from the capital.
Police are...
VIDEO – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Brazilian Theatre Season at EICC
There are four Brazilian theatrical companies performing at the EICC this Fringe. We were invited to the showcase this week to see what they...
Cafe culture on George Street this Festival
When the council's Transport and Environment Committee met in March this year they were faced with three deputations, all on the subject of closures...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW -The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning *****
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning - National Theatre Wales.
Audience awareness of Bradley Manning's imminent life-imprisonment - what writer Tim Price, director John E McGrath...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW Richard Digance *****
Richard Digance: New Town Theatre
Performances daily 20:45pm
Career entertainer Richard Digance provides an hour of humour, merriment, music and fantastic anecdotes of a life well...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW — Jekyll & Hyde ***.5
Staging a radical retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s original a stone’s throw from the author’s alma mater is a pretty gutsy move. Even more...
World’s Largest Art Show to feature works from National Galleries of Scotland
Two works from the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, Revd Dr Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Sir Henry Raeburn and Work No. 975: EVERYTHING...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – The Unremarkable death of MARILYN MONROE *****
The Unremarkable of Death of Marilyn Monroe : Dyad Productions
Assembly 3, George Square 13:10 1st-12th, 14th-26th August
This is a simply stunning production and has...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – We Will Be Free – Tolpuddle Martyrs Story *****
We Will Be Free. Tolpuddle Martyrs Story – Townsend Productions.
The synopsis tells us that this poignant, redeeming and thoroughly engaging production is 'based around...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW Silence in Court ****
Silence in Court: by Liam Rudden
New Town Theatre, George Street
16:00 & 19:30 various dates 1st -25th August
Does justice prevail? Are we programmed to ignore...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa
A little flavour of what you might expect from The Peculiar Tale of Pablo Picasso and the Mona Lisa by Fourth Monkey Theatre Company....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Lloyd Langford, Galoot ****
We’ve overheard more than one* Cowgate conversation this festival about people’s lists of 30 things to do before they turn 30 (basically a bucket...
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