News and Allan Radcliffe

Edinburgh Film Festival New Writing Awards

News

17 Jul 2007

Best in show The List launches the Edinburgh Film Festival New Writing Awards. Words: Allan Radcliffe Since 2005 The List has collaborated with the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain to present awards for the best new writing in comedy and…

LongPen technology brings Mailer and Munro to Edinburgh

19 Jun 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe (Image: left to right - Ben Okri, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro) With the announcement of its programme for August 2007 an intriguing new chapter has opened for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The…

Burns an’ a’ That festival line-up unveiled

22 May 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe (Picture: Deacon Blue (left) and the MacDonald Brothers (right)) The sixth Burns an’ a’ That festival, which takes place from Wednesday 23-Monday 28 May, features an enticing programme of entertainment, music, dance…

Festival Fever

News

27 Mar 2007

Early Bird tickets still available for The Outsider

News - Edinburgh International Festival Programme

When Worlds Collide

27 Mar 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe As this issue of The List hits the shops, the covers are being whisked off the programme for the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival. One of the highlights of the first programme with Jonathan Mills at the helm is the UK…

News - Gaelic culture

Opera for the masses

12 Mar 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe One of Scotland’s most spectacular locations is to be celebrated in a unique European theatre production. Five simultaneous performances of St Kilda - A European Opera (Mac-Talla Nan Eun) will take place in France, Belgium…

News Extra

FESTIVAL FRENZY

28 Feb 2007

Words: Mark Robertson and Allan Radcliffe Just when you thought it was safe to go back to your local ticket outlet, several festivals unveil their wares at once. Triptych celebrates a triumphant seventh year of esoteric eclecticism with 79 reasons to…

News - Fair Trade Experience

PLAYING FAIR

28 Feb 2007

Words: Allan Radcliffe Over the past few years, politicians and retailers have been working hard to cement Scotland’s reputation as a fair trade nation. It’s not often, however, that the country’s consumers get the chance to see the effects of their…

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's house

Top of the property ladder

3 Jan 2007

A house designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been put on the market and looks likely to become the country’s most expensive home. Windyhill House in Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire, 15 miles outside Glasgow, is the only remaining Mackintosh-designed…

Monster Street Party

The monster is loose

11 Dec 2006

As the sun sets on another spectacular series of Hogmanay parties the length and breadth of the land, the January blues won’t bring determined party animals quite as low as usual. Highland 2007, Scotland’s yearlong celebration of Highland culture past…

Glasgow artists' studios expand

Guerilla tactics

28 Nov 2006

Studio Warehouse, the exciting, innovative arts facility in Glasgow’s West End, which offers open plan studios for rent to local artists, has already established itself as a jewel in the cultural cityscape. Run by visual artist and curator Mutley, it…

Scottish Ballet a step closer to new HQ

Tramway project further boosted by additional fund

13 Nov 2006

The proposals for Scottish Ballet’s state-of-the-art new home at Tramway have been given the green light by Glasgow City Council’s Planning Committee. Meanwhile, the Scottish Arts Council’s announcement of a £3.75m National Lottery Grant, together with…

Edinburgh vigil for Politkovskaya

Amnesty to request investigation into death of Rus

16 Oct 2006

The Scottish branch of Amnesty International is to hold a vigil in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in the capital. The campaigning Russian journalist and tenacious critic of President Vladimir Putin, was shot dead in the stairwell of her apartment earlier…

Capital developments

Edinburgh’s cultural life is set for further uphea

16 Oct 2006

After months of wrangling, the City of Edinburgh council’s planning committee has green-lit the £200 million ‘Caltongate’ development. The controversial proposal will see the area around the old New Street bus depot transformed to accommodate a new…

St Peter’s architects celebrated

Major Gillespie, Kidd & Coia exhibition announced.

2 Oct 2006

The work of two of Scotland’s greatest living architects, Andy MacMillan (pictured) and Isi Metzstein, is to be celebrated in a major exhibition led by The Lighthouse. Gillespie, Kidd & Coia: Architecture 1956-1987 will open at Scotland’s national…

Queen's Hall saved from closure

7 Sep 2006

Fresh from its Edinburgh festivals programme, which included the highly successful Three Mo’ Tenors and a number of International Jazz Festival events, the Queen’s Hall has been granted a stay of execution by the city council. It had been feared that…