Tag: New York
Peeling away the Big Apple needs a New York State of Mind
Hotel chain YOTEL describes itself as the “pit-stop for the non-stop” and is positioned as an affordable luxury option for travellers. With it’s Times Square location on Tenth Avenue/W 42nd Street it would be...
Fringe Festival flying high with JetBlue sponsorship deal
US airline JetBlue has been announced as the airline sponsor of the 2024 Fringe Festival.
JetBlue’s daily transatlantic flight between New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport and Edinburgh Airport makes it even easier for...
Escape the Scottish summer blues – jet off to the Big Apple
North American airline JetBlue is benefitting from fed-up Scots keen to escape a wetter than normal summer with it’s Edinburgh to New York route proving a popular getaway option.
At just under seven-and-a-half hours flying...
EDINBURGH CHARITY OFFER CHANCE TO TAKE A BITE OUT OF THE BIG APPLE MARATHON
Kids Operating Room offering coveted spaces for November’s New York Marathon
A Scots charity founder is taking on his biggest challenge yet, limbering up to run the New York Marathon and is looking for contenders...
Larah Bross on taking over the world one bagel at a time
Larah Bross has pulled off a bit of a coup by recruiting one of our own Scottish superstars as an ambassador for her special brand of bagels.
This should not really surprise anyone who...
Braeburn back New York Tartan parade
Braeburn Whisky are sponsoring The New York City Tartan Day parade which makes its return this tear after two years of cancellation due to the pandemic.
It brings together thousands of people from across...
Pipes of Christmas – a bit of New York in your living room
Manhattan’s annual Pipes of Christmas concert, a joyous celebration of Celtic music and poetry produced by the Learned Kindred of Currie, returns for the 22nd year.
And with the benefit of its new online...
NYC Tartan Day Parade – Brian Cox to be Grand Marshal in 2020
Multi-award-winning Scottish actor and star of HBO’s Succession, Brian Cox CBE, will be Grand Marshal of the New York City Tartan Day Parade for the event’s 22nd year, taking place on Saturday 4 April 2020.
The Dundee-born actor, whose...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Last Life : A Shakespeare Play
Last Life: A Shakespeare Play is a riveting new piece created entirely from the plays, songs, sonnets, and poems of William Shakespeare.
Writer and director Sara Fay George has put together a striking new assemblage...
At Carnegie Hall – Migrations – the Making of America
When in New York recently I met up with Gino Francesconi who is the Director of Archives at Carnegie Hall. Of Italian descent himself he knows all about people who came to America from...
Phil launches Pride of Scotland tartan in New York
Last night Scot Phil MacHugh helped launch the brand new LGBT tartan as it made its global runway debut on the New York catwalk.
The new, officially registered 'Pride of LGBT' tartan was unveiled at...
#NYCTW They danced the night away with Whisky Kiss
The Pre-Parade Ceilidh with Whisky Kiss was held last night in the Altman Building in Soho, way down near the foot of Manhattan.
It proved to be a great venue for the dancing which began...
Bonhams New York – Sale to include photographs from Scotland
Bonhams New York is selling photographs on 5 April 2019 from 2.00pm. These are not just any old photos. Some are the work of renowned photographer Ansel Adams, there are a couple of Cartier-Bressons...
#NYCTW 2018 – Topher Brophy – For the love of a dog
One of the best things about social media is that it helps you meet and correspond with people you otherwise could never reach.
I 'know' Topher Brophy from Instagram, and although he lives in the...
#NYCTW 2018 – Empire State Building lit for National Tartan Day
The Empire State Building is one of the most iconic sights in the US.
ON FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018, THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING WAS LIT UP BLUE AND WHITE IN HONOUR OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY...
#NYCTW 2018 – Clann an Drumma
Leading up to the main event, the parade on Saturday there is a lot of Scottish entertainment to be found in the bars around New York.
In Blooms Tavern which is an Irish bar now...
#NYCTW 2018 Lord Thurso – on a mission to sell Scotland to the world
The Chair of VisitScotland brought his red Dress Sinclair kilt with him to New York. As a Highlander John Thurso has a few to choose from, but this is 'one of his favourite kilts'.
He...
#NYCTW 2018 High level entertainment en route!
The Norwegian Airlines flight from Edinburgh Airport to Stewart International New York was some 36,000 feet above the Atlantic when it was filled with the skirl of the bagpipes.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about...
KT Tunstall is named Grand Marshal at NYC Tartan Day Parade
Award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall has been chosen to lead the annual NYC Tartan Day parade as Grand Marshal, the first woman to lead the Parade.
The NYC Tartan Day Parade will be held on...
Norwegian begin their New Year sale today
22 direct routes from the UK and Ireland on sale from £99/€99 one-way
Today, Norwegian has launched the start of its New Year sale offering traveller’s savvy savings on selected flights from the UK and Ireland.
Based...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – 30 Year Old Virgin
New York comedian Kevin James Doyle is coming to the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a show all about sex – or the complete lack of it.
Raised as a clean-living young Christian he knew that sex had...
First Minister’s expenses for US trip released
The First Minister's trip to the US interested The Edinburgh Reporter, particularly the second half of it, as she arrived in New York when I was already there for Tartan Week.
I had the opportunity...
A day in New York with the First Minister
At the beginning of April I was in New York for Tartan Week and had the opportunity of interviewing the First Minister, the Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon MSP twice during the day.
It was a busy...
Tartan Week Parade 2017 – Elite Pro Dance
Elite Pro Dance are so good they look like Americans!
They were a fabulous addition to the Tartan Week Parade last Saturday in downtown Manhattan. Only formed in 2014 they are a squad of about...
New York Tartan Week Parade 2017 – the Swamibapa Pipeband
There were many pipe bands on Saturday in New York City taking part in the Tartan Week Parade, but this one in particular stood out for us. The Swamibapa Pipeband has a most interesting...
#NYCTW – St Andrews Bar to close this week
Just when we were about to frame up a guide to how to get the best out of New York Tartan Week, where to go what to see, this sad news reached us. One...
#WITW – First Minister of Scotland talking to Tina Brown
Tina Brown's Women in the World Summit is being held over three days in New York. I lined up with many others at the beginning of the afternoon session yesterday outside in the freezing...
A little ballet to begin the First Minister’s day in NYC
The First Minister started her busy day yesterday at New York University's Tisch School of the Performing Arts where she met some Scottish ballet students on an exchange visit supported by Scottish Government funding.
Fourteen...
Tartan Week 2017 – Gordon J Millar of ScotStreetStyle
Gordon J Millar is the founder and director of Scot Street Style. He toured Scotland with the Dalai Lama, took the World Peace Tartan to New York where he had a chance encounter on 5th Avenue with...
Major works from National Galleries of Scotland going to America
The National Galleries of Scotland is to send a selection of major works from the national collection to the United States over the next year. This touring show will raise the international profile of...
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