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The intriguing stories of an Edinburgh landmark

Calton Hill: Journeys and Evocations is an interesting collection of history and folklore on one of Edinburgh’s most famous landmarks. Told by means of prose,...
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School of Rock musical is just a class act

ANDREW Lloyd Webber isn't a name that instantly springs to mind when you think of rock music. Nor, indeed, is Julian Fellowes, the creator of...
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Celebrating the potential of the Conservatoire

This week sees the launch of a new two-year pilot programme that will support the innovation potential of students, staff and recent alumni of the...
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Silent film festival returns to Scotland next week

There's just seven days until Scotland’s only silent film festival will return to the Hippodrome in Bo’ness. On Wednesday 16 March, Scotland’s oldest purpose built...
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A dramatic ballet in The Scandal at Mayerling

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s iconic ballet about a dysfunctional royal family, depicting shocking real events from 1889, was boldly created in 1978 and is now reimagined...

El Niño and Abundance in a new art exhibition

A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño. It shows the fishing...


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