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DAVID HILL CONSIDERS FORTH STREET AND BROUGHTON PLACE
Lightness and possibility inform the morning air as I head past the metropolitan cathedral towards Broughton. The limpid weekend sky seems charmed by April’s delicate breeze, and the few distant clouds, lurking to the north like languid spectres, hold no fear.
This early azure feels like a promise, or perhaps a screen on which to project the day’s al fresco fantasies.
As you read this, Issue 251 of the Spurtle is speeding from the presses like rattlestanes off a tourist’s sunhat.
Distribution will mostly begin tomorrow, but may not be complete until early next week due to weekend and May Day bank holiday arrangements.
By jingo, it’ll be worth waiting for, though.
Freedom from Torture is a charitable medical foundation for the care of victims of torture.
Its local Edinburgh group is currently preparing for a biennial fund-raising walk from Stockbridge to Balerno on Saturday 21 May, and would like you to join in.
Participants can walk the full 9.3 miles to the foot of the Pentlands, or bail out at Slateford (4.5 miles), Colinton (6 miles), or Currie (8 miles) from where buses can be caught back into Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh International Festival is the first summer festival to announce its full 2016 programme, writes Rhys Fullerton.
Broughton-based shows are all at the Edinburgh Playhouse, and one of the highlights is a two-night residency for the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós.
Council Leader Andrew Burns today issued an unconditional apology to pupils, families and carers for the disruption and anxiety caused by ‘negative developments in the school estate’.
Seventeen PPP1 Edinburgh schools closed earlier this month owing to concerns about their construction (Breaking news, 9.4.16). Some, including Drummond CHS, have since reopened with limited areas still out of bounds.
The St James Centre will cease to trade next month, closing a 40-year chapter in our collective story of shopping, eating, parking, flirting and petty pilfering on the inside of a Brutalist landmark.
The lovely people who manage the area are waving goodbye with a three-day event starting tomorrow, at which members of the public will be encouraged to share their memories.
REVIEW: DRAWING FOR A REVOLUTION AND A LAUGH
Arusha Gallery have had a busy 2016 so far, but surprisingly this is their first exhibition of the year. It has been well worth the wait.
Drawing for a revolution and a laugh is Mark I’Anson’s first solo exhibition since 2012. It doesn’t blow you away – it draws you in slowly and subtly, and it really is quite special.
A ‘Disabled People’s Question Time’ will take place this Friday on Holyrood Road.
A Scottish Parliamentary Election event, it is being jointly presented by Inclusion Scotland and Disability History Scotland.
The first part will inform attendees about Access to Politics advice and support for disabled people, including the Democratic Participation Fund for would-be councillors in 2017.
We haven’t seen the official crowd figures yet, but it felt as though thousands gathered in the Meadows this lunchtime for the 2016 Pedal on Parliament.
The start was scheduled for noon, but such was the throng that some in the middle of the line didn’t start moving until after 12.15pm.
This was the largest number of people to attend in the event’s history, and that – combined with it being an election year – perhaps partially explained a very good turnout from politicians.
Grass was finally restored to the central circle of St Andrew Square Garden yesterday. We think this was 10 days after Underbelly’s planning-consent deadline for restoring the area to its pre-Christmas condition.
Not all areas are perfect yet. Grass in the Garden’s south-east quadrant remains patchy, and appeared to be being reseeded this morning.
Loosely attached fairy lights dangle from the trees here.