Posts by Kenny Smith
Performances full of passion and power
Three months of not-to-be-missed music, drama, dance, opera and musical theatre are coming to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Powered by passion and performance, the professionals-in-training at Scotland’s national conservatoire unleash an eclectic and electrifying new season. Expect sumptuous symphony and jazz orchestras and experimental electronics, bold new dance works and powerful drama productions as…
Read MoreGreat stories from all over Scotland return in Landward
The great outdoors comes to your living room, with the new series of Landward next week. Landward returns for a new series, celebrating Scotland’s countryside and wildlife, its food and drink sectors and investigating the stories behind the headlines in the rural economy. Presenters Dougie Vipond, Arlene Stuart, Euan McIlwraith and Anne Lundon will travel…
Read MoreRuined stables will be brought back to life for new homes
A beautiful disused Scots building is set to be given a brand new lease of life. The Good House Company is preserving a slice of Fife’s rich history with its much-anticipated conversion of Inchrye Steadings near Lindores. With its striking clock tower, turrets and castellated dovecot, Inchrye Steadings have been a familiar sight on the…
Read MoreSaving Scotland’s wildlife – on screen every week
The real-life stories of Scottish animals in need are continuing each week. Each Monday night, BBC Scotland shows Born to Be Wild, a 10-part series looking at the work of the Scottish SPCA. The fourth episode of the series was shown last night on BBC Scotland, concentrating on squirrels. It showed the SSPCA team receive…
Read MoreVisit Cyprus bringing a food pop up to Scotland
Scottish cheese lovers can rejoice: London’s sell-out Halloumi pop-up is coming to Edinburgh next month. Visit Cyprus is launching it from 8 April at Otro Restaurant. This April, for two weeks only, locals and visitors to Edinburgh can get their hands on a brand-new pure halloumi-based menu, in an exclusive and centrally-located pop-up restaurant. Back…
Read MoreTrue OriGINS ready for its first fest in Edinburgh
Leading intellectual property firm Marks & Clerk has been named the official corporate sponsor of an inaugural gin festival in Edinburgh. True OriGINs – the Scottish Gin Festival – will be taking place on Friday 29 and Saturday 30 March at The Biscuit Factory venue in Leith and is expected to attract some 2,000 people.…
Read MoreRare and healthy vegetable is added to Dhabba’s menu
A Scots Indian restaurant has used a rare and versatile vegetable to create a special dish during Veggie Month. Bottle gourd, or Calabash as it is also known, is around 92% water and is regarded in India as one of the healthiest vegetables around, and it’s now on the menu at Dhabba in Glasgow. As…
Read MoreIt’s last orders for Jack, Victor and Still Game
Get your hankies ready – the last-ever episode of Still Game is to air this weekend. Over The Hill is the sixth and final episode in the ninth series of the hit Scottish comedy. In this poignant final episode, comedy fans bid a fond farewell to Jack, Victor and the rest of the Craiglang gang…
Read MoreA special 75th anniversary guided tour to Normandy
Scots are being offered the chance to mark the 75th anniversary of D Day and the Allied Invasion of Normandy. Operation Overlord, the assault on Hitler’s Europe, was the culmination of four years of preparation which had seen the creation of he largest invasion force ever assembled. On 5 and 6 June 1944 156,000 men…
Read MoreA thriller that will grab you from the word go
Scots writer Catherine Deveney grabs you from the first sentence of The Chrysalis. This gripping novel, as the title suggests, tackles issues of transformation. The protagonist is Marianne, an elderly woman living in a care home. With her failing health she feels let down by her ageing body and mind. This decline has led Marianne…
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