Jun 8, 2019
Wigtown resident Anne Barclay was “overwhelmed” to hear that she was being awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The award is being made for services to charity and the arts and recognises her voluntary work to help raise funds for cancer research and her...
Jun 7, 2019
Around 100 Scottish schoolchildren gathered at the National Museum of Scotland today to celebrate their work to design the environmentally friendly products of the future. The primary and secondary students have been taking part in Making Circles, a project where they...
Jun 1, 2019
The opening of Moat Brae, the house and garden where Peter Pan began, was celebrated with a colourful garden party hosted the trustees of the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust (PPMBT) along with Patron Joanna Lumley. Among the guests at Friday afternoon’s event, which was...
May 28, 2019
This Saturday sees the opening of Scotland’s latest international visitor attraction – Moat Brae house and garden, the new National Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling. The beautiful Georgian property in Dumfries, where the young J.M. Barrie and his...
May 21, 2019
The sofa is beige but John Rowe is anything but – and the Aussie entertainer is bringing his much-loved chat show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It promises a hectic evening of groovy live tunes, sing-alongs, daggy dancing, daft chat, surprises and silliness in the...
May 21, 2019
Henry Box Brown, the acclaimed musical inspired by the true story of an escaped 1850s slave, is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Performed by a superb cast of New York Gospel singers and Broadway actors it was described by The Times as “compelling … bold …...
May 21, 2019
A struggling movie actress and an aspiring horror writer are on the very brink of success – each just a compromise away. Jessica can achieve her dream of taking the lead role in a big budget feature film if she’ll just “upgrade her sex appeal”. And a prestigious...
May 21, 2019
When a Miami Jewish woman who describes herself as “self-involved, loud and stubborn” married a larger, louder and more stubborn Miami Cuban Catholic man and his entire family … she met her match. Jewbana is a sexy, moving, autobiographical, comedy, drama, dramedy?...
May 21, 2019
Vulnerable bird species are the inspiration for the exquisite work that glassmaker Amanda Simmons will be showing at this weekend’s Spring Fling open studios event. Amanda has spent the last four years perfecting the techniques for her elegant and delicate designs –...
May 19, 2019
A non-stop celebration of the astonishing, surprising, subversive and the supremely sexy – Rouge is heading for the Edinburgh Fringe with its outrageous brand of adult circus. A decadent blend of sensational acrobatics, operatic cabaret and tongue-in-cheek burlesque...
