A self-styled cosmopolitan Nepalese restaurant, Thamel brings the ever-popular Gautam’s brand to the corner of East London and Broughton Street with plenty of eye-popping aesthetics. Perhaps in ...

Between Two Waters, a new book by Inver chef-proprietor Pam Brunton, is a far-reaching polemic presenting an alternative to a broken food system, finds Jo Laidlaw ‘This book came from a disjoint ...

Which podcast educates you? I like badly produced podcasts that are clearly DIY passion projects. Give me that poor audio quality, unedited low-fi goodness! Those three-month gaps between episodes?

Fire Engines shone briefly but brightly on Edinburgh’s music scene in the early 80s. Neil Cooper has written an extensive essay and interviewed the band for the CD booklet of Chrome Dawns, a ...

As its name implies, Sonica is about rocking worlds. Over 11 days in September, the Glasgow-based Cryptic company’s eighth edition of its festival ‘for curious minds and restless spirits ...

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Gay marriage was a massive step in LGBTQIA+ equality but Sian Davies isn’t that much of a fan. In fact, she’s a much bigger proponent of gay divorce. The Northerner’s stand-up is an ...

Parallels between a dancer’s body and a sculptor’s clay are drawn in this duet between 75-year-old artist Mike Sprogis and choreographer Julien Carlier. Sprogis begins by introducing us to the ...

Crammed with karaoke classics and a prodigious wig collection, this early-afternoon show is an enjoyable ode to the power of pop It’s hard to believe that this is a free show. Sarah-Louise Young ...

It was a performance of two halves for pianist Yuja Wang in her Usher Hall appearance. And not just for the midnight blue to ivory interval change of backless, split-to-the-thigh haute couture ...

Standing in line with my ten-year-old daughter, we overhear people talking excitedly about Tweedy, and how we’re so lucky that he’s taking a break from the Cotswolds. Having not been to a ...