‘ALMOST UNSEEN’

Artisan Ensemble celebrate the works of composer Suzanne Parry through the release of a new album and 3 Scottish tour dates.

Date and time
Venue
Stockbridge Parish Church, Saxe-Coburg Street, Edinburgh

COO, LOOK WHO’S BACK!

Submitted by Editor on Thu, 27/07/2023 - 10:22

The doos are home on Elm Row.

Shona Kinloch’s eight brass figures were removed from the site in 2006 as preparations began on the tramline extension from Newhaven to Broughton.

In the years since, the popular trip hazards (properly titled A Leith Walk since their creation in 1996) have been fully refurbished or, in three cases, recast.

Their reinstatement, along with that of the London Road clock adjacent, marks progress in beginning to restore some normality to the area.

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT

Submitted by Editor on Tue, 11/07/2023 - 06:00

You can travel the world on a Hebridean beach.

Each outgoing tide leaves behind stories: flotsam, jetsam, bookshelves and messages in bottles.

Or you can stay at home and wander the lampposts of Edinburgh.

Some poles include only the tight-packed prose of traffic regulation orders. Others are adhesive palimpsests, competing tales like barnacles encrusting rocks.

Berlin ‘s illicit drug scene features often, as do fascist football casuals from across the Continent. ­

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