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New work inspired by five of Scotland’s leading writers will be lighting up historic landmarks across Edinburgh for the next few weeks.
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More than 1000 revellers, many clad in fancy dress, took part in Edinburgh's annual Loony Dook event to herald the start of a new decade.
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“THIS was such a bad idea,” noted the Ninth Wave’s lead singer Haydn Park-Patterson a couple of hours before the bells, of his decision to turn up at this most Caledonian of occasions wearing just a kilt, bare chest and flowing white-blond hair.
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The events company was responding to a post on social media from Hoot the Redeemer on Hanover Street.
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Scotsman art critics Susan Mansfield and Duncan Macmillan select the shows they are most looking forward to in 2020
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With a knack for crafting music that sounds simultaneously retro and progressive, Mark Ronson was a smart booking to usher in a new, unpredictable decade, a transatlantic polymath with a slick repertoire of bona fide dancefloor hits...
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International travellers from 87 countries were in the sold-out 75,000 strong audience as Edinburgh’s Hogmanay - as organisers announced that tickets are already on sale for the next street party.
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An unexpected figure, the MP for Surrey Heath, looms large as Mystic McMillan looks into her crystal ball to see what’s coming up for the next 12 months in Scottish theatre
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From the latest Bond to Spielberg’s version of West Side Story, there’s plenty to look forward to on the big screen in 2020
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There are some major live shows scheduled for 2020, and some notable albums dropping too, writes Fiona Shepherd
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Taika Waititi’s “anti-hate” comedy Jojo Rabbit manages to tread a fine line between hilarity and real pathos, writes Alistair Harkness
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You won’t have to like Beethoven to enjoy classical music in 2020, but an appreciation of his oeuvre will certainly come in very handy. It’s the 250th anniversary of the pioneering, mould-breaking composer’s birth – and boy, won’t we know it.
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Sebastian Barry’s last novel, Days Without End, won several prizes , chief among them the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. A Thousand Moons, to be published in March by Faber & Faber, is a sequel...
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Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters is the jumping off point for a flood of elemental live performances
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As a nation of dog lovers, it’s understandable that emotions play a major role when it comes to our four-legged friends. I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it hard to walk past a dog or pup without stopping and commenting on how cute it is.
