The Edinburgh Reporter
Two centuries of art
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY (RSA), one of the oldest and most prestigious UK cultural institutions, will be 200 years old this year. An independent artist-led organisation, the RSA is planning a one of a kind celebration all year long involving hundreds...
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On point at Christmas
THE TROPICAL POINSETTIA has become a symbol for Christmas and the display at Dobbies Garden Centre is something to behold. Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, the poinsettia is named after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the minister who first introduced...
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Masterstroke
SIR EDUARDO PAOLOZZI’S Master of the Universe has been moved to the National Galleries Scotland: National at The Mound from its longtime home at the Modern on Belford Road. The exercise took two days for the museum staff to carry out after a great...
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Click 'n' Collect
CAMERA OBSCURA & WORLD OF ILLUSIONS on Castlehill collected the Inclusion Award at the 2025 Central and East Scotland, regional final of the Scottish Thistle Awards. The family attraction with 100 interactive illusion exhibits was lauded for embedding...
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Get on your bike!
EDINBURGH’S NEW TRIAL bike hire scheme will be delivered by Swedish company Voi, and everyone with the app will be able to use the city’s new scheme of dockless e-bikes from Wednesday 3 September. A typical 20-minute journey will cost around £2.20....
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Welcome to Festival City
THIS YEAR’S Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) features performances by all five of Scotland’s national companies, recognising that supporting native talent is now more important than ever. The EIF includes a European production premiere of...
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Palm-Fringed Showcase
THE MADE IN SCOTLAND SHOWCASE will form an integral part of the Fringe this year with 16 shows backed by The Scottish Government’s Festivals Expo Fund. The initative began in 2009 and has supported 299 shows to date with an onward touring fund...
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Scaling the Heights
A CAREER IN HOSPITALITY as part of a family steeped in providing excellent food experiences all over Scotland began with Stefano Pieraccini washing dishes in the family’s hotels, aged just 14. That was half a lifetime ago, and now the entrepreneur is...
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Restless Natives RIDE AGAIN
THE CLOWN AND THE WOLFMAN are revved up and raring to get on the road next month. Restless Natives: The Musical is in Edinburgh from 7 to 22 June in the first production at Leith Theatre since 2018. It begins a three month summer long programme of...
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Tartan Pride
A SMALL TEAM OF SIX VOLUNTEERS is making the final preparations for the inaugural Edinburgh Tartan Parade. Rehearsals have been carried out along the city centre route and the final touches to arrangements for the big day are being made. The first...
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Mystery behind the mask
MASK MAKER LORRAINE PRITCHARD and Scottish, Polish, Chinese and Congolese dancers appeared in colourful traditional costume and masks to launch this year’s Pomegranates Festival of international traditional dance which takes place at the end of...
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Be My VALENTINE
MANY COUPLES COME TO EDINBURGH for a holiday and on occasion one of them is surprised by a proposal of marriage. Will and Christine, photographed above, met in Edinburgh as students and came back from New York for a holiday to the one place in the...
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Takes the biscuit
THE YEAR STARTS with good news for the team at The Biscuit Factory. Our photo above shows (left to right) Holly Dobbin, Murray Clarke, Fiona Hamilton and Michael Johnstone who run the old Crawford’s Biscuits on Anderson Place. This is the first...
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Santa’s on track
ALL ABOARD THE TRAM to get to the city centre for Christmas fun. Santa’s in town ready to meet children just next to the tram stop in the Piccolo Spiegeltent in St Andrew Square, where there will be stories, a letter writing station and a post box to...
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Fairy Godmother of all pantos
THE PANTO IS BACK Oh yes it is. Allan Stewart is playing a woman once more, this time, Faerie May. He said: “It was the first panto I did at the Glasgow Pavilion in 1975! Mummy, did he say 1975?… he’s very old isn’t he, Mummy? Yes! But wait till you...
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Paolozzi pops up in Port
A NEW MURAL OF Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, has been created by former Glasgow School of Art student, Halla Groves-Raines. The artwork is in place on Henderson Street, and depicts the artist in his later years. It replaces a younger black and white image of...
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Meet Cleo the cheetah
THE FESTIVALS are just finished for this year, but it may be timely to remind you of the 2023 Funniest Joke of the Fringe. This was written by Lorna Rose Treen: “I started dating a zookeeper but it turned out he was a cheetah.” Visitors to Edinburgh...
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Time for the show to begin
ONE OF ASSEMBLY’S top selling shows of 2023, Afrique en Cirque, pictured left, returns to wow Fringe audiences once more with their daring acrobatics sharing the beauty and artistry of African culture. This sell-out is a dazzling circus spectacular...
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Gold Standard
IT WILL BE 100 YEARS this month since athlete and missionary, Eric Liddell, won an Olympic gold medal in Paris. The story of his victory was the real-life inspiration for the film, Chariots of Fire, and he was not only a sprinter, but also a rugby...
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