Watch: Ross Fountain ready to flow once more as restoration completed
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Work to renovate the historic Ross Fountain was completed this afternoon as the last statue was crane-lifted into place.
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Book review: The Neighbourhood, by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize winner, also long ago the Neil Gunn (Visiting) Fellow here in Scotland, has written novels of high intelligence, invention and moral complexity. The Neighbourhood can’t be said to match his best work, or indeed come close to it.
Travel: Caribbean cruise Scotland on Sunday Travel - banish the blues with a winter cruise
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It was cold and raining at home, but the heat when we landed in Barbados was like being in an oven. And that is precisely why we were in the Caribbean in January and heading for the P&O cruise ship Azura.
Experts predict an increase in Scotland's daddy longlegs population
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Scottish residents should expect to see a rise in the number of daddy longlegs (also known as crane flies) this year, after millions of larvae were discovered underground.
Interview: Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry on the band’s third album, Love Is Dead
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When Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart recently informed Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry that she was “the punk rock Joan of Arc of pop”, he nailed her commercial credentials, warrior wit and tenacious integrity in one clumsy soundbite.
Music review: BBC SSO & Thomas Dausgaard, City Halls, Glasgow
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Kullervo may not be the most refined and musically cohesive of Sibelius’ large-scale works, but this enormous five-movement choral symphony, based on an epic Finnish poem, remains a fascinating, embryonic...
Theatre review: Though This Be Madness, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
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Like Kane Power’s Mental, seen at the Tron last weekend, Skye Loneragan’s new 60-minute solo show is presented by Scotland’s Mental Health Arts Festival, as part of UK Mental Health Awareness Week; and it, too, looks at serious mental illness from the perspective of a loving family member.
Theatre review: Forbidden Stories, Traverse, Edinburgh
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Working between Edinburgh and Cyprus, Ludens Ensemble are well known on the capital’s fringe theatre scene for their shake-ups of classics such as Macbeth and Ubu Roi. With this latest show, though, they move into new territory...
Art review: Canaletto & the Art of Venice, Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh
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George III was a collector and one of the biggest single acquisitions he made was in 1762, when he bought the library and collection of Venetian art formed by Joseph Smith, always known as Consul Smith, which is the subject of Canaletto & the Art of Venice at the Queen’s Gallery.
Music interview: Pianist Paul Harrison on the controlled experiments of jazz quartet Sugarwork
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There’s nothing saccharine about Sugarwork. The quartet, formed by Glasgow-based pianist Paul Harrison, combines decidedly non-traditional avenues of improvisation and pre-composed music with a simmering reservoir of electronica, from industrial to psychedelic.
Theatre preview: Glasgow’s second Take Me Somewhere festival promises to explore the outer edges of performance
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If you like your theatre conventional, well-dressed, and contained within a proscenium arch, then the one Scottish arts festival you should probably avoid is Take Me Somewhere, set to fizz and sparkle across Glasgow over the next two weeks.
Edinburgh Castle named UK’s fourth best landmark in TripAdvisor awards
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Edinburgh Castle has been named as the fourth best-rated landmark in the UK in the Travellers’ Choice TM awards for Landmarks, announced by TripAdvisor.
New Outlander map of latest filming locations launched
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A bumper new Outlander map has been released by Scotland’s tourism body with almost 40 filming locations now included in the guide.
8 of the best Scottish spas to enjoy this May bank holiday
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Scotland is home to many big name spas as well as some hidden gems, but which are the best to visit this month?
Peaky Blinders set to feature Glasgow gangs
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Glasgow’s infamous razor gangs are to feature in the next series of BBC hit drama Peaky Blinders, its creator has revealed.
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