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National Museum of Scotland: Admiral Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander exhibition
If you’ve been fascinated by swashbuckling naval heroes such as Master and Commander’s Jack Aubrey or CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower, then the National Museum...
Edinburgh Author Shortlisted for Scottish Children’s Book Awards
Local writer Nicola Morgan is one of 9 authors to be shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, the Scottish Book Trust announced...
Forest Cafe’s Literary Opus
As we type, Edinburgh’s Inky Fingers writing group are holding a 36 hour writing marathon in The Forest Cafe as their mini literary festival...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Kist (****)
The Kist is a wonderful educational musical journey of Scottish music from its basic rhythms and Gaelic roots to the contemporary music from all...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Mr Kolpert (**)
Mr Kolpert is a play with some good acting, but the attention to detail lets it down. The premise behind the dark, anarchaic drama...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Mogic (****)
Mogic is comedy magic that has the audience laughing from start to finish. The mail order magic kit has arrived with only an instructional...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe review: Fe Fi Fo Fun, Go and see this ‘Canadiun’! (*****)
Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones.
Underbelly Pasture
August 15 @ 2.20pm/August 16 @ 6.30pm
All ages.
Wowing delighted audiences young and old with his esoteric shadow-puppet paraphernalia, the Canadian-born,...
Swamp Juice: No Shadow Of A Doubt (*****)
Swamp Juice. A Shadow Puppet Menagerie with a 3D FINALE.
Underbelly, Cowgate. All ages.
Sell your souls to Satan, pawn the Pekinese, put your kidneys up...
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...
Royal Wedding Photo Special
We asked our Twitter followers if they had any photos from Saturday's royal wedding in the Canongate Kirk, and Dai Lowe got back to...
Professor Petra Wend, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University – Profile
Tell us who are you and where you're from.
I come from a working class family and my parents left school before they were 18....
SSA Search For Scottish Films of Last 40 Years
The Scottish Screen Archive (SSA), a part of the National Library of Scotland, is looking for films and videos shot in Scotland over the...
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival review: Soul Rebels Brass Band
What a way to start a festival. The Soul Rebels Brass Band, which had the late-night slot in the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival’s...
Emergency preparations win recognition for Council
The City of Edinburgh Council has become the first urban local authority in the UK to gain a quality standard for its...
Scary Gorgeous at Fringe Festival
2010 Fringe First award winners RashDash Productions return to the Bedlam Theatre this summer with a new show, Scary Gorgeous. The show was co-commissioned by The Development...
Interview: Cancel the Astronauts
In this audio interview, Kieran McCaffrey and Michael Craig from Edinburgh-based indie pop band Cancel the Astronauts spill the beans on being asked to...
Edinburgh Bands On TV Tonight
Several local bands will grace our screens tonight in an hour long BBC documentary about the South by Southwest Festival, which took place back in...
Magic Festival review: Michael Neto – Imagination… yours or mine?
By David Kettle
From the minute Michael Neto walks on stage, you get the feeling anything could happen. He jumps from trick to trick like...
Magic Festival review: Lewis Barlow – Experiments in Mystery
By David Kettle
The slick, polished tricks of Edinburgh-based magician Lewis Barlow take you back to TV magic shows of the 1970s, and you’ll probably...
Stockbridge Duck Race 2011 in Pictures
We went along to the 23rd annual Stockbridge Duck Race to take a few pictures.
It was a beautiful day, and the Water...
Magic Festival review – Harrison Richards: The Ancient Art of Modern Mind Reading
By David Kettle
This show feels like the antidote to grand, showy, mind-reading spectaculars. Harrison Richards has a gentle, amiable approach so that on occasion...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival review – Card Ninja
By David Kettle
Think of a show of card tricks and you’d probably imagine plucking cards from thin air, guessing cards chosen by volunteers, that...
National Library Puts Banned Books in the Spotlight
The National Library of Scotland hopes to provide a revealing insight into some of the most controversial material ever written by displaying a series...
EIFF Review – By Day and By Night
By David Kettle
Mexican director Alejandro Molina’s quiet, thoughtful feature feels somewhat like a throwback to classic science fiction – there are elements of Logan’s...
EIFF Review – Tomboy
By David Kettle
When a ten-year-old moves, with sister and parents in tow, to a new neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris, making friends with...
EIFF – An Evening With Chemikal Underground
You might be forgiven for thinking that if you go to an event at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, there will probably be a...
EIFF Review – Project Nim
By David Kettle
The new film from James Marsh, director of 2008 Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire, is a very different beast. Project Nim is...
EIFF Review – Between 2 Fires
By David Kettle
Agniezska Lukasiak’s harrowing and angry film follows young mother Marta and her daughter as they escape child prostitution in their home country...
Nat Fraser faces retrial
Judges at the Appeal Court in Edinburgh decided yesterday that Nat Fraser would be retried for the alleged murder of his wife Arlene in...
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