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LIFE IN THE MOMENT, AND THE COLLECTIVE THRUM

REVIEW: JANET MELROSE'S 'MAKING TRACKS' AT THE UNION GALLERY Nothing remains the same. Life moves on. And yet, through the eyes of Janet…
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NOT PACKING BUT DROWNING

By the time you’re reading this the country may have descended into chaos, or further chaos depending on how you view things. Post-election, the…
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BROCK WINS EDINBURGH NORTH & LEITH IN SNP LANDSLIDE

Deidre Brock has won the Edinburgh North and Leith constituency for the SNP. She defeated Labour's Mark Lazarowicz by 23,742 votes (40.9%, +31.3…
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ELECTION WALKIES AROUND BROUGHTON

Most hypothermic activists reported brisk voting this morning at the seven Broughton polling places within Edinburgh North and Leith. We were…
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A PARSNIP, A PENGUIN AND OTHER PECULIAR PLEASURES

RHYS FULLERTON REVIEWS DERRICK GUILD'S MOTHER FIGURESA diamond-encrusted parsnip. Subliminal messages within a still life. A leaf wearing…
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SPICK AND SPAN SPURTLESHIRE JUST AROUND THE CORNER

Trade waste containers for licensed premises, shops  and restaurants have been multiplying over the past few years, writes local resident John…
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SPURTLESHIRE HOSTS MORE DEBATES

Following on from the Spurtle's hustings event last month, the BBC is holding tonight's Scotland Leaders’ election debate in the Mansfield Traquair…
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DELIGHTS AND DISCOMBOBULATIONS

This intriguing ensemble is called ‘Gorlitzer Bahnhof’. It is by the contemporary Scottish artist Gardner Muirhead and appears as part of his…
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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIES 6

DAVID HILL ON RODNEY AND BROUGHTON STREET HAUNTS – THE GHOSTLY AND THE GHASTLY Ghost signs – hand-painted traces of an earlier generation's…
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ISSUE 240 – OUT SOON!

What is that strange excitement in the air? What is that gathering vibration? Is it the tremor of erupting crocuses? Is it the massed yawns of…
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