Sunshine on Leith will return to the capital

Capital Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre are behind a new production of the Proclaimers’ musical Sunshine on Leith. The new show will be the final one in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre season before it closes for a £25m redevelopment. Sunshine on Leith was written by Stephen Greenhorn, featuring the songs of The Proclaimers and new musical…

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A glittering future for Scotland’s unwanted jewellery

A drive has been launched to rescue those tangled chains, unmatched earrings and banged up bracelets sitting at the bottom of jewellery boxes around Scotland and give them a glittering new future. The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust (SGT) and Ethical Metalsmiths have teamed up with art colleges to bring the Radical Jewellery Makeover (RJM) – a…

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Pizza Geeks looking to give away food this month

Independent pizzeria Pizza Geeks in Edinburgh have officially launched their brand-new festive menu with a unique twist of ‘the gift that gives twice’. With every Christmas meal sold in their restaurants throughout the month of December, they will donate a pizza for their Pizza for the People Campaign to not only get people into the…

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See in the New Year on the Britannia and Fingal

Fingal and the Royal Yacht Britannia are offering the perfect luxurious way to start 2022. It’s a chance to experience both Fingal and its glorious sister ship, the iconic Royal Yacht Britannia during this ultimate two-day Hogmanay package in Edinburgh. December 30 – Champagne Afternoon Tea on Fingal and Evening Event on Britannia. A sumptuous…

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Cask and Still Magazine Issue 3

Cask & Still’s third edition takes a journey into bourbon with comic genius Bernie Lubbers. The stand-up comic is also a bourbon ambassador and bluegrass musician. Our whisky bar of the issue takes us to the Flatiron Room in Manhattan, New York. We meet Great British Bake Off judge Prue Leith, who, as well as…

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Annika has been a splash hit with actor Jamie Sives

New Scottish crime series Annika continues this week, with the fourth instalment of the detective show. Starring Nicola Walker as Annika Strandhed, the head of the Marine Homicide Unit at the fictional Scotland Police, she is joined by Scots actor Jamie Sives as one of her co-stars. In the fourth episode, when writer Cara Gibson…

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See works by the greats and a new generation sculptors

A brand new, specially-commissioned artwork by Andrew Mackenzie has now joined pieces by Antony Gormley, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull and David Nash in the rapidly expanding outdoor sculpture collection at Marchmont House. Visitors can see and learn about these – and many others – in a series of special guided tours between this weekend and…

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The Great Scottish Pottery Throw Down: Ones To Watch

Writer Laura Vida has a keen eye for top artistic trends. Introducing us to four talented potters based in Scotland, here is her list of ‘ones to watch’…  Not one of these talented potters was born in Scotland. Yet the geology, landscape and climate of their adoptive country is manifest in their work. CLAIRE HENRY…

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Looking to Lothian for Scotland’s Home of the Year

Anna Campbell-Jones, Michael Angus and Kate Spiers look to Lothian to find the next contender for Scotland’s Home of the Year. They start with Castle Glimpse, a corner tenement flat in Leith with views of Edinburgh Castle. Built in 1815, the property has been home to Matt since 2019. What was once a dilapidated and…

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Holyrood Distillery: A ‘rude’ reawakening in the courtyard

Holyrood Distillery has created a ‘sipping gin’ that’s ideal for its reopened courtyard, as Peter Ranscombe discovers. IN A world with more and more gin, it’s becoming harder and harder to find anything that stands out from the crowd. Yet Holyrood Distillery may have just cracked it. The Edinburgh whisky maker set out to create…

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