I was there on Friday night to see Taylor Swift, the first night, and it really was one of those pinch me moments.
What to wear to get into the spirit of a Taylor Swift concert in Edinburgh when you’re still in the first flush of youth and what to wear when you’re staring down the throat of a bus pass...
"This is what the power of assembly looks like – and this is the heavy, heavy gravity that surrounds a true mega-star"
A quarter of a century ago, sure he wanted to be a writer, Kevin Barry took himself to West Cork for a summer to write a novel. Subject? Hadn’t a clue. But he was surrounded by disused mines whose workers had left their homeland for the city of Butte, Montana over a century earlier when the Irish copper seams played out. And this fact did seed an idea. “It just struck me that that’s a Western,” he tells me. “Butte Montana, late 1890s – and it’s a Western with Cork accents.”
Edinburgh Futures Institute has finally opened on the site of the Royal Infirmary, while the midnight movie returns in the new EIFF line up.
‘Some of the things that have happened to me would probably be grounds for lawsuits’: one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy on his life and work
Discovering the paintings of Degas, Bikini Kill start the riot grrrl, and Perth Festival of the Arts opens.
For its first major exhibition since reopening two years ago following a £68 million refurbishment, The Burrell Collection has turned to one of 19th century art’s heavy-hitters – French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas.
A new blockbuster exhibition showcasing art by one of the most famous of the French Impressionists is set to open in Glasgow later this year, bringing work by one of the world’s most revered painters to the city.
Shallow Grave shouldn’t really have worked. In fact it probably shouldn’t even have been made. But it did work, and it was made.
