Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary: Weston show serves up food for thought
PASSIONATE photography collectors Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg are in the city this week from New York to celebrate the fine exhibition of Edward Weston's vintage prints at the City Art Centre.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Jo Caulfield: Maddening memory lane
WHEN I was a teenager my Aberdonian husband used to hitchhike down to Auld Reekie from the Granite City to watch bands. Yesterday he took me on a tour of venues from his youth.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Stephen Carlin: High Street to Damascus
Some are born loving the Fringe and some have love of the Fringe thrust upon them. Ten years ago, a confirmed Edinburgh Festival sceptic, I found myself working in the capital, living in the capital and underappreciating the festival in the capital.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Tim Cornwell's Festival Diary: You must see my show … it's so mediocre!
AN EPIDEMIC of modest behaviour is sweeping the Fringe.
Actor Andy Linden, at the Gilded Balloon with his storytelling show, I kid you not, tells everyone he is "aiming for mediocrity".
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Monday, 16 August 2010
Lady Garden: All the Ups and Downs
For Lady Garden, the festival is a carnival of contradictions.
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Monday, 16 August 2010
Rosie Wilkinson: Baby Boom
Last year I found myself up the duff and was given a due date slap bang in the middle of the Edinburgh Festival.
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Monday, 16 August 2010
Tim Fitzhigham: Flooded to the gunwales
These are words I never thought I'd write: I really identified with Noah this week. The angry Old Testament God is alive and well and in charge of Scottish weather.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
Susan Murray: Surviving the Fringe, part three
You people don't know how lucky you are. "All" you have to do is go to work, then go home.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
Tiffany Stevenson: Surviving the Fringe, part 2
Rule 1. Don't read a single review, just wait for people to inexplicably become your new best friend or look at you with pity and tilt their heads.
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Saturday, 14 August 2010
The Wau Wau Sisters: Surviving the Fringe, part one
We'll never forget our first Fringe. We, the Wau Wau Sisters, would be up at the High Street at the crack of dawn, flyers in hand, sweet smell of last night's vodka still on our breath, waiting to assault the millions of potential theatre-goers before they'd even had their tea. We would flyer for 7-8 hours, take a 15-minute break for some coffee and booze, eat a flyer, and then continue flyering until showtime.
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