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A fantastic return with Calum Stewart’s new album

Culture Blogs | Music
Calum Stewart inspires with Tales from the North, a superb new solo album that challenges the conception that Uilleann pipes are the preserve of Irish...
Cilla - The Musical comes to His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen later this year

Tickets are now on sale for two outstanding musicals

Culture | Music
Two new spectacular star-studded shows to hit His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen for first time. Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA) will welcome both the fashionable, Olivier...
Sherlock’s elementary roots inspired the new tartan. Pictured as Holmes is Harry Chamberlain, with designer Tania Henzell

A study in tartan as Sherlock Holmes is in fashion

Fashion | Film & TV | Scotland
Sherlock Holmes has become the first literary character to have his own tartan approved by the Scottish Register of Tartans. The Great Detective was created...

Book review – The Day She Saved the Doctor

Books
What’s the story? To mark International Womens Day 2018, BBC Books have released Doctor Who - The Day She Saved The Doctor. Containing a quartet...
Former Edinburgh Makar Christine De Luca will be a judge (Photo: Chris Scott)

Poets wanted for festival poetry competition

Culture | Scotland
Poets across the world are wanted for a Scottish competition. The 2018 Wigtown Poetry Competition has been launched with an invitation for poets from across...
Entrance for a Red Temple No. 1, painted in 1960 by Alan Davie

Scots of note added to UK’s historical biography

Books | Culture
Prominent Scots are among 216 contemporary individuals who have been added to the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). The latest...
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