Who would you like to see playing you in the movie about your life? Who do you think the casting people would choose? Melissa McCarthy. She can do comedy and also be serious so she would be perfect ...

Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) has announced the headline acts for its The Front List strand, which invites major names from the literary world to talk at McEwan Hall. Taking place from ...

Morning Andy. How’s The Zaltgeist? Well, it’s constantly changing because the news doesn’t stop. The Bugle has called 2026 one of the ‘shittiest’ years in recent memory. Does that make political ...

Multidisciplinary arts festival Hidden Door has announced its full line-up for 2026, once more taking place at Edinburgh’s Paper Factory. From Wednesday 3 to Sunday 7 June, the huge complex of ...

HBO Max has been plying its wares for almost a month, giving the UK's newest streaming service plenty of time to remind people of the incredible amount of great TV it's produced since the dawn of the ...

Incredible though it may seem, there was a time when Alan Cumming wasn’t in everything, everywhere, all at once. Back in the early 90s his career, although burgeoning, hadn’t yet made him the toast of ...

For this month’s Wee Gig Lowdown, we’re highlighting a few of the record stores going big with free performances and artist showcases on Record Store Day, which takes place on Saturday 18 April. There ...

What a treat. Simon Phipps’ photographs of post-war brutalist architecture have done as much as any other body of work to revive the reputation of a style once castigated for its ugliness, neglect and ...

Alan Davies’ first stand-up tour in more than a decade carries considerable baggage, with the comic having written a memoir in the interim about coping with the death of his mother when he was just ...

The comedy venue has released a second batch of shows for this year’s festival ...

Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has announced its full programme for 2026, with the theme ‘All Rise’ aiming to examine the ideas and impact of the US. Inspired by the 250th anniversary of ...

It’s extraordinary to think that decades of working-class culture and practice can be wiped out in just a handful of years, thanks to the actions of a callous government. And it’s even more ...