Culture

New openings this month include the long-awaited The Spanish Butcher, by independent Scottish restaurant group, RUSK & RUSK, which officially opens in Edinburgh on Friday 10 May on North Castle Street.The restaurant is famed...

The company behind Six by Nico is opening a new restaurant as well as a cocktail bar next month called Somewhere by Nico in Edinburgh's West End.Chief Executive and founder, Nico Simeone, has...

A sure sign of better weather is when young birds emerge from nests to take to the water in the case of these young cygnets.Cygnets stay with their parents until around the spring...

Edinburgh’s Playtime jazz sessions have announced a new season of concerts. Beginning with the house quartet of saxophonist Martin Kershaw, guitarist Graeme Stephen, bassist Mario Caribe and drummer Tom Bancroft playing the music of...

Tardiest with a packed programme of music, film and storytelling begins this weekend, running from 3 May to 13 May.Organisers say that it is due to continued support from The National Lottery through...

We gain the ‘Summer Triangle’, but lose the ‘Winter Triangle’, as the predominantly twilit sky reduces observability to the brighter objects in the heavens. Keen observers should continue to be vigilant for a nova...

Friends of Starbank Park held a Cherry Blossom picnic on Sunday.They invited everyone to come along and enjoy the views inside and from the park with live music from the Edinburgh Brass Band.28/4/2024Picture...

More used to scaling buildings than Indian Tuk Tuk’s , Spider-Man has been spotted in Dhoom Indian Streatery & Bar in Dunfermline. Having just launched its latest taster menu, this time based on the food...

Photographer Alan Simpson caught something quite rare in his lens earlier on Saturday - a brown long-eared bat out and about in broad daylight.This is a rare species anyway, but it is seldom...

Hamilton has played to sell-out audiences during the run which began on 28 February and closes on Saturday night.The cast took to the outdoors and celebrated in a mass photo call.Read Líam Rudden's...

As winter draws to a close and the first blooms of spring begin to arrive on Calton Hill, the Cailleach (the Celtic goddess of winter) is preparing for her long hibernation through the summer…Join...

Rachel Groves, Scottish lever harpist, introduces her first single release Dr Neil’s on 3 May 2024 with the record label 'Folk & Flow'.Lying hidden behind an Edinburgh churchyard, between the shores of Duddingston Loch...

LEAVING grass to grow long in gardens can increase butterfly numbers by up to 93%, according to new research.The study, by the wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation (BC), provides the first scientific evidence that even...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the current state of the world, many of the artists featured in this year’s New Contemporaries exhibition at The Royal Scottish Academy are looking for comfort.This may be in happy...

An opening party was held on Sunday evening at the newest restaurant in the New Town, Under the Table which is owned by chef Sean Clark who set up The Table just upstairs, and...

Fort Kinnaird is teaming up with Musselburgh Library and has set up a free book club hoping to bring the community together over the joy of reading.  The club will be hosted at the centre...

From today until Sunday 28 April there is a celebration of the Japan Sakura at Lauriston Castle.While the scheduled events are fully booked there are lots of drop ins to enjoy including:Learn some...

The world premiere of a show written by Cal Ferguson, Mhairi McCall and Lewis Lauder will be staged at this year's Fringe from 1 to 25 August.This is a tale of a ban...

Pettycur Bay Holiday Park has announced that tribute group, The Jersey Notes – Scotland’s number one tribute act playing the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons – will perform on Saturday 20 July...

After taking diners on a culinary journey across eleven different landscapes of India, Dhoom Indian Streatery & Bar in Dunfermline is now ready to take them to Chennai, and the colourful Coromandel Coast in...

NT Art Month, a festival which only launched last year, has announced the line up for its second edition to be held this June.With returning galleries alongside new initiatives and partners, the festival...

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra joins forces with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Japanese piano virtuoso Makoto Ozone to play Rhapsody in Blue at the Usher Hall on Friday 3 May.Ozone will be...

Edinburgh Science Festival has announced that it has appointed a new director to take over after the retiral of Dr Simon Gage after 34 years with Edinburgh Science.The new Director will be Hassan...

Showcasing the Larder of the Lowlands’ returns this month following a successful inaugural event last year where over 50 producers presented products to buyers from across Scotland and the UK.  The Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries,...

In the first Featured Artist exhibition of 2024, Southside gallery Art & Craft Collective presents two artists in one redesigned exhibition space.Opening on Saturday April 13 and running until Saturday May 18, 'Hunkersliding' presents...

Saxophonist John Burgess becomes the latest musician to play in the concert series in St Peter’s Church in Linlithgow when he appears in the intimate High Street venue on Friday 19th April.A versatile player...

Edinburgh Open Workshop - We are Open to EveryoneJoin the makers at Edinburgh Open Workshop on Saturday 27 April as they throw open the doors and welcome families from across the city to a...

Portobello pizzaiolo Michael Notarangelo has returned to his roots with the opening of a new pizzeria in the seaside town.Pronto, on Brighton Place, promises it will deliver the most authentic pizza possible outside of...

Edinburgh’s Mr Entertainment picks his Hot Tickets to see in the Capital and beyondHamilton is here, Pretty Woman is on the street, and although it’s only April, the Fringe and Festival seem to be...

A consistent theme of this column is that good coffee is not easily made.While specialty coffee culture and language (artisanal, third wave etc) has spread quickly in the last decade and a half,...