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Pictured here is Lynne Harkes's 'A Floral Welcome', part of her exhibition currently showing at Bon Papillon on Howe Street.
It almost makes you wish you were a bee.
In her own words, Harkes's large-scale, minutely observed studies of flowering and decay allow her to 'momentarily step into a calm space.
On Saturday 10 March, the Edinburgh Evening News splashed 'Whipping Up a Storm' across its front page alongside the image of an amply bosomed, corset-clad dominatrix flourishing a whip.
'Protests over "degrading" erotic festival across city' tutted its subhead, unironically.
Journalists David McCann and John-Paul Holden then reported how an 'X-rated arts festival featuring bondage workshops and a fetish dungeon' with voluntary degradation is planned for the city centre this summer.
Potentially it could attract hundreds of fans.
Mother’s Day (18 March) – the perfect opportunity for us all to show our mums how much we appreciate what they have done, sacrificed and taught us over the last few decades. What better way to show your appreciation than with a homemade gift.?
I’m not talking about a childish necklace made of pasta shapes or a haphazardly painted card. I’m talking about a dozen, elegant, gorgeously decorated cupcakes made by your own fair hands.
In the week since I first saw Cathy Campbell's solo exhibition at the Union Gallery, I've been struggling to put my finger on what it is about her work which so appeals.
I think in part it is its modesty. Her scenes are quietly understated and domestic. She herself makes no grandiose statements about what she is about, claims no superior understanding or descriptive authority for her paintings of pots, vases, cups and glassware.
In fact, she almost denies herself any kind of voice at all:
Broughton and Scotland swimming legend David Wilkie will reopen Edinburgh’s lavishly refurbished Royal Commonwealth Pool on 21 March.
Remembered for his 200-metre breaststroke Gold at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976, Wilkie is better known hereabouts for his name’s appearance on a cup proudly displayed in Broughton Primary School (see below). We Broughtonians love to celebrate a local's success.
Stand by for disappointment.
On 1 April 2012 it will become necessary to have a Public Entertainment Licence for any kind of public art in Edinburgh, writes Spurtle reader and artist Jen McGregor.
Even the smallest grassroots events being run for free will require a licence, which must be applied for six weeks in advance. (More information here.)
New developments in Canonmills have provoked mixed reactions.
Newington-based Earthy have bought a 3-year lease to the row of shops by the bridge (1, 2, 3–6 Canonmills Bridge), and are knocking them together internally as you read this.
Later this month, they plan to open a restaurant and shop specialising in organic, sustainable, Fair Trade, and Farmer's Market goods and ambient products.
Since the turn of the year, excitement among the Kenya Group has been hotting up, writes Drummond CHS's Annie Scanlon.
Five S5 students and three staff will take off for a visit to Drummond's partner schools in Muthambi from 12–23 June. They will teach in the schools, work in classes with their Muthambi friends, and visit farms, markets and local events to see how teenagers in Kenya live.
City Planners have now agreed listed building consent for a minor revamp to the exterior of C.C. Bloom's on Greenside Place (Ref. 12/00172/LBC; see Breaking news, 31.1.12).
So far so unremarkably common-sensical.
Passers-by were briefly surprised yesterday by the appearance on Mansfield Place of a double-decker London bus.
The Routemaster (1962 vintage) was supposedly destined for Tooting Broadway in South London, and appeared lost.
Closer inspection showed that it was, of course, an exhibit at the Vintage Wedding Show within the Mansfield-Traquair Centre. One of two based in Edinburgh, it was last seen on Princes Street in December when it served as a pizza restaurant.