Browsing: Edinburgh

The award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested in Edinburgh for wearing a T-shirt that allegedly referenced the proscribed protest group Palestine Action.Laverty was himself…

Brothers Kevin and Andrew Macdonald discussed their respective careers in an ever-shifting film industry on Sunday at the Edinburgh International Film Festival‘s keynote session. Kevin Macdonald,…

In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a Ted talk about the future of comedy and was…

It is the greatest duet, performed solo. Ventriloquism acts became a popular entertainment in the 18th century and have flickered in and out of favour ever…

Whale, Where Are You Going?Assembly Rooms, 10.10am, until 24 AugustThe old man who sits at the centre of this imaginative blend of object theatre and shadow…

Two weeks before the Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off its 78th edition, Festival Director and CEO Paul Ridd seemed almost at ease. “We’re not in…

U.K.-French sales-production outfit Alief has boarded world sales rights to “Low Rider,” the sophomore narrative feature from “Stud Life” director Campbell X. The news comes ahead…

For Tommy J Curry the question about Edinburgh University’s institutional racism, or its debts around transatlantic slavery and scientific racism, can be captured by one simple…

Jewish leaders have urged the University of Edinburgh to uphold a controversial definition of antisemitism after the institution revealed it was reviewing its support for it.The…

The most famous enslaver in Jamaica, the island that was one of the most profitable of Britain’s Caribbean colonies, is a ghost. One of the tellings…