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BROUGHTON BEAUTY IS SKEIN-DEEP

‘No frost yet, but I noticed a sign that perhaps Winter weather could be around the corner,’ writes John MacDonald. ‘While in my garden this…
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PLAYHOUSE TAKES STEPS TO IMPROVE ACCESS

The Ambassadors Theatre Group seeks planning permission to build a new covered walkway at the Category-A listed Playhouse on Greenside Place (Ref. 14…
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SURFACE BLEMISH PASSED UNNOTICED

Spurtle doesn’t normally like tags – those pen-names repeatedly extravastated from aerosols onto elements of the streetscape like so many dog-pees…
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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

PETER STANDEN AT THE SUTTON GALLERY – REVIEWED BY RHYS FULLERTON Edinburgh – one hundred years from now. Global warming has hit, the…
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PRAM, LIFT AND DOWNWARD MOBILITY

There are both positives and negatives to being a proud pram owner. A positive is that if people are getting in your way then you can crash into…
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DESIGNED FOR DRIVING PLEASURE ...

And mis-used just for the hell of it. This sorry-looking BMW has appeared in St Mark’s Park over the last day or so. It had been driven…
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THE SMITH COMMISSION – ONE LOCAL'S RESPONSE

Following September’s Referendum on Scottish independence, the Prime Minister tasked Lord Smith of Kelvin with convening ‘cross-party talks and…
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THUMBS UP FOR GURKHA BRIGADE'S BIGGER BACK SIDE

An application by the Category B-listed Gurkha Brigade restaurant at 9a Antigua Street to extend its premises to the rear has been consented (Ref. 14…
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FIVE FAVES FROM UNION'S LATEST

The Christmas exhibition, newly opened at Union Gallery on Broughton Street, features work by over a dozen contemporary artists: sculptors, painters…
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HUMAN EYES PUT 25º TEST IN SHADE

A planning application to build two 3-bedroom mews flats on NW Cumberland Street Lane has been refused because the new structures would unacceptably…
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