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StudentsSolidarity Steps: A guide to student activism
Keen to get involved in activism? Your student years are the perfect time to start. Here’s a rundown of our top tips, as well as a handful of organisations to keep on your radar Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
StudentsGet With The Programme: Putting on your first DIY gig
Your local music scene is powered by great grassroots promoters – we chat to three of them to get some insight into how a great gig comes together Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsAsk Anahit: Student Edition
In this advice column special, our resident agony aunt answers all your burning questions about how to be a student Read more »| 11 Sep 2025 -
StudentsStudent Heads Up: 20 events to check out this year
We get it, you want to keep your calendar clear for ‘work’ and ‘studying’ and ‘the sesh’, but there is a lot going on around here. Consider these the tentpoles around which to build your year… Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
StudentsCreative Commons: Getting involved in Scotland's creative scene
We speak to some of Scotland’s creatives about the importance of finding community, and how to get yourself involved Read more »| 09 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsCrowning Glory: Scotland’s drag kings on the rise
Time to suit up. We speak to Scotland’s leading drag kings about exploring masculinity, looking out for one another, and creating a name for themselves in today’s drag scene Read more »| 04 Sep 2025
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Food And DrinkSear's Pizza, Edinburgh / Anxious Pete's, Glasgow
A tale of two pizza shops, as we visit new by-the-slice spaces at both ends of the M8 – Sear's new spot in Marchmont, Edinburgh, and Anxious Pete's at the Barras in Glasgow Read more »| 01 Sep 2025 -
IntersectionsLove Bites: Dinner With Strangers
This month’s columnist reflects on sharing a meal with future friends Read more »| 12 Aug 2025 -
IntersectionsAsk Anahit: No Touchy
In this month's advice column, one reader asks how to tell a friend that they get too touchy-feely when drunk (but otherwise is very normal and great) Read more »| 03 Aug 2025 -
IntersectionsUnfit For A King: On taking the stage with pride this August
Who is festival season for, anyways? Spoken word poet Oliver Robertson reflects on finding creativity in community, bringing working class Scottish stories to an international stage and the importance of the Free Fringe, for artists and audiences alike. Read more »| 28 Jul 2025 -
Food And DrinkKUL Coffee, Edinburgh
Slick Scandi-style design, an apparently endless list of coffees, and food that straddles the minimal and maximal – KUL is a hit Read more »| 26 Jul 2025 -
TravelResident Advisors: A Union Canal Swan
We catch up with one of Edinburgh's most attractive but intimidating residents: the radge swan that lives on the Union Canal Read more »| 21 Jul 2025 -
TravelThe Skinny Guide to Edinburgh 2025: Attractions and Green Spaces
Edinburgh is one of those cities that’s worth seeing just to see it – we’ve come up with the capital’s mightiest museums, its most breathtaking heights, and its most bewitching ruins Read more »| 19 Jul 2025 -
TravelResident Advisors: Rod White, Filmhouse
Rod White, the Programme Director at the newly reopened Filmhouse, gives us the lowdown on his favourite things about Scotland's capital city Read more »| 18 Jul 2025 -
TravelResident Advisors: Connie and Andy, Slow Progress
Top tips from Connie and Andy of Slow Progress Records & Coffee, a little shop on Blackfriars Street between the Royal Mile and the Cowgate with a lovely community events space out the back Read more »| 17 Jul 2025