Culture

The sedate Firth of Forth island that is forever punk

Conrad Frain visits Cramond Island of Punk to celebrate 30 years of its D-I-Y cultural ethos

Sep 12 • Conrad

Don’t believe the hype. Peak Fringe may actually have passed

Will Quinn on the glory and frustrations of the Fringe - and its curiously empty halls

Sep 5

Anti-Scottish bias at the comedy awards? You’re joking

Will Quinn says relax, there’s no conspiracy at the heart of Edinburgh’s most famous arts prize

Aug 29 • Edinburgh Inquirer

The city council versus the Festivals

Plus: The best of what’s left of the Fringe

Aug 27 • Edinburgh Inquirer

Copying Copenhagen, bright horizons and gap site fears

What the future could hold for the Princes Street fire site

Aug 18 • Edinburgh Inquirer

The manosphere is no joke. But what if we make it one?

Sarah McArthur meets some of the many Fringe comedians making shows about masculinity

Aug 15 • Sarah McArthur

250 years of the most influential book to come out of Edinburgh

Looking for the man behind an idea which gripped the world

Aug 12 • Sarah McArthur

Finding balance and community at the European Stone Stacking Championships

How a small East Lothian beach gathering has grown into one of Scotland’s most unexpected international cultural events

Aug 8

‘Capturing the fun and capriciousness of a woman who never left home without her party shoes in a bag'

In conversation with the sculptor of Princes Street Gardens’ first memorial to a woman

Jul 29 • Sarah McArthur

You can still perform at the Fringe as cheaply as in the 1990s

The real cost crisis hitting the Festivals, its roots and what it means for performers

Jul 23 • Edinburgh Inquirer

Could empty Art Deco cinema become ‘Edinburgh’s White Elephant’?

Fears grow for the future of the Southside's former Odeon

Jul 22

Sandra George: Celebrating Edinburgh's great, unheralded street photographer

An extraordinary "slice of Edinburgh rarely seen" on show in groundbreaking exhibition

Jul 18

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