A “little April foolery” is a protest staged all over Edinburgh by local artists on the first of April. The protest is aimed at the controversial legislation, which will come into action on the first of the month. Many hundreds of artists are set to make the city centre their big stage as they fight [...]
Edinburgh International Festival tickets on sale from new venues across the city
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tickets to this year’s Edinburgh International Festival went on sale on Saturday 24th March from the Hub at Castlehill. From today, the public can also purchase them from five new venues across the city. The Edinburgh Playhouse, Festival Theatre, The Queen’s Hall, Royal Lyceum Theatre and the Usher Hall have joined the list of venues [...]
GAME goes into administration, main Edinburgh stores stay open
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
GAME, Britain’s biggest video game retailer, has gone into administration today. The retailer counts around 1.300 stores distributed between the UK and mainland Europe, 5.100 employees in the UK and Ireland, of which 385 are employed at its headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire. In Edinburgh, Gamestation on Princes Street, the flagship store of the company, had already [...]
Edinburgh Castle will ‘go dark’ for Earth Hour
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
This Saturday, Edinburgh will go dark. In conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2012, Edinburgh will join hundreds of cities from all over the world by switching off lights and electricity, and going dark, for an hour. Earth Hour is scheduled on the last Saturday of every March, closely coinciding with the equinox, [...]
Titanic director breaks deep dive record
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Hollywood director James Cameron has become the first person to solo dive to the deepest point in the ocean. The Marian Trench, which is located in the western pacific ocean close to Guam, is an astonishing 7 miles (11km) deep. In 1960 the first and last successful endeavor to reach the bottom of the Marian [...]
Literary Death Match to take place tomorrow
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A ‘battle to the death’ is set to take place in Edinburgh tomorrow night. The Voodoo Rooms will for the second time host Literary Death Match (LDM), an event originally created by Todd Zuniga, an LA-based writer and journalist and the founding editor of Opium Magazine. The contest pits four authors against one another, as [...]
New record label launched at Jewel and Esk College
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Staff and students at Jewel and Esk College have launched a new record label, Feast Records. Utilizing the college’s impressive array of recording equipment the label is aimed at promoting “new young musical talent in Scotland”. An event will be held to celebrate the new label on the 30th of March at Edinburgh’s Electric. The [...]
Podcast: Final Harry Potter named best film at Empire Awards
March 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
The final film in the British fantasy film franchise took the top prize at the Empire Film Awards 2012 in London last night. Along with Best Film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 scooped the award for Best Director, for David Yates. Accepting the award he commented, “It’s a real treat to get [...]
Rare Automaton sparks international interest
March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A rare automaton of a black man smoking a cigarette will be sold at auction by Lyon & Turnbull this week. Valued at around £1500, the piece is made by famous Frenchman Vichy and dates from the period 1860 to 1910, known as “The Golden Age of Automata”. Sourced from a private collection near Dundee, [...]
Festival tickets on sale this weekend
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tickets for the Edinburgh International Festival will go on sale tomorrow, 24 March 2012. The festival, which will run from the 9th of August to the 2nd of September, will showcase talents from 47 nations in performances of theatre, opera, dance and music. 4 million people will flock to Scotland’s capital city to watch 40, [...]
Cineworld sees customer boost after price cuts
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A few days after Cineworld announced the removal of all booking fees for its filmgoers nationwide; people seem to be happier than ever with this decision and most of them claim this will positively affect their attendance in the future. Cineworld is the first big cinema chain to remove all booking fees and offer a [...]
Spamalot opens at Playhouse tonight
March 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Monty Python’s Spamalot, a hit Broadway musical is opening at the Edinburgh Playhouse tonight. Written by Eric Idel and John du Prez, this production of the “rip-off” of Monty Python will run for six-days. The production stars former Doctor Who Star Bonnie Langford and this UK tour will run in Edinburgh for 6 days. In [...]
Perth prepares for the biggest kilt run
March 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A number of celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee are planned to take place in Perth this June. As part of the events, the town will try to break the world record for people running in kilts. All participants should run an 8 km route beside the Tay. Kilt runners will be invited to raise [...]
Early sale of Fringe tickets
March 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has started selling tickets to this year’s event through their own website. Previously, however, Edinburgh’s festival has refused to sell tickets prior to confirmation of the full program line-up, so as not to favour certain productions. Recently, this has been altered as venues began selling ticket through their own outlets. Neil Mackinnon, the Fringe’s [...]
Michael Jackson music stolen
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sony music confirmed today that a number of Michael Jackson tracks were stolen when their website was hacked. The security breach occurred in April last year, and Sony announced that as many as 70 million PlayStation Network users’ details may have been stolen. The theft of the Michael Jackson tracks came shortly afterwards, but was [...]
National Museum of Scotland reborn
March 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Since it reopened last Summer, the National Museum of Scotland has been the most popular UK attraction outside of London according to new figures. Its £47 million refurbishment has boosted visitor numbers by 141%, one of the largest boosts in visitors for UK attractions according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Bernard Donoghue, director [...]
One step closer to become a Fair Trade Nation
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Scotland’s desire to become one of the world’s first Fair Trade Nations is on course to become a reality by the end of this year. In July 2006, the Scottish Government established a set of innovative measures to be met in order to make the ‘Fair Trade Nation’ status a real achievement. According to the [...]
Olympic rings set to sparkle
February 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
By Alagappan Muthu The Edinburgh skyline will feature a shiny new addition this summer in celebration of London 2012. The Olympic rings due to be erected in the Mound in Princes street gardens will also be lit up. Officials from the Olympic committee and Edinburgh City Council are hopeful the new site would serve as [...]
Finland says farewell to the Markka
November 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
Before leaving Scotland a friend handed over some old Finnish markka, challenging me to see if I could “still use them.” In truth the Finnish markka ceased to be legal tender in 2002. Finland adopted the euro when entering the Eurozone in 1999, and is still the only Scandinavian country to have embraced the single [...]
Human dignity film festival
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This weekend Edinburgh Filmhouse is posing the ethical question: what is human dignity? The Biomedical Ethics film festival, now in its seventh year, will show five different films from November 25 – 27. The three-day event explores the complexities of human ethics, specifically examining the many facets of our conception of human dignity. Director of [...]
Scotland climate change warning
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Scotland is at increasing risk from climate change, a new report published today claims. The report, entitled, ‘How well is Scotland preparing for climate change’, argues that there will be both benefits to Scotland, and risks. It urges the Scottish government to take action to mitigate the impact of climate change. Some of the benefits [...]
Edinburgh libraries ‘will not close’
November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Quashing fears of community library closures, Edinburgh City council assured the public that all Edinburgh libraries will remain open. Across the country campaigners have been fighting to keep libraries open since budget cuts threatened to close some smaller libraries earlier this year. In response to public concerns, the council have published a libraries consultation document [...]
