sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter We Were Promised Honey! ***** ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall, until 28 August sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter We Were Promised Honey! warns you from the start that there won’t be a happy ending. What goes up must come down and tragedy is inevitable, says creator … Read more
sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Pleasance Dome (Venue 23), until 17 Aug, and then at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) until 28 August sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter To lockdown or not to lockdown – that is the question for comedians this Fringe. Whether tis nobler to bury the trauma … Read more
sign up to our daily newsletter As far as we know, a swimming pool is one of the few things that Edinburgh’s new hotel and members club, Gleneagles Townhouse, doesn’t have. That’s a shame, as you might be in the mood for a splash after viewing the pieces in their first exhibition, which runs from … Read more
sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter After two years of being told to isolate, it’s surprising that any performer still has the appetite to stand alone on a stage at the Edinburgh Fringe and do a one-person show. Thankfully they do – and the fact that many have been trying to get here … Read more
sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Beware the beasts. PIC: Lee Boyce. The Scottish Storytelling Centre, until 13 August sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter The beasts are loose! During lockdown, when the world’s streets and skies became silent, Scotland’s mythical creatures were free to roam the land once more. Now … Read more
after sunDir. Charlotte WellsThis achingly sad feature debut from Scottish director Charlotte Wells sees a young woman looking back at a life-altering holiday she took with her father to a low-rent Turkish resort when she was 11 and he was 30. What makes after sun such a revelatory work is the way in which the … Read more
INVESTMENT giant abrdn saw its share price close down nearly seven per cent last night after it fell short of profit forecasts and reported a rise in outflows from its funds in the first half of the year. Edinburgh-based abrdn cited the “challenging global economic environment and market turbulence” as it recorded total net outflows … Read more
sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter In the spring of 2020, musician and theatre-maker Yoshika Colwell was touring in Australia when her family broke the news to her that her beloved grandmother, Ann, was ill with cancer. While she made it back to the UK just as lockdown began, she wasn’t in time … Read more
sign up to our daily newsletter Lauryn Halliday, 22, is taking part in the Dundee Kiltwalk on 21 August with her partner, Cameron Buckley, 23, to raise money for the charity Brain Tumor Research. Lauryn’s friend, Jamie Bingham, died from complications following the removal of a juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma brain tumor in September 2019. Jamie’s … Read more
Taiwan has warned that Chinese military drills are not just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it is ready to defend itself. Angered by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to … Read more
