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The Spice Girls gave us girl power, Beyoncé told us they run the world, and this weekend Because You Are A Girl will continue to show that girls reall... Read more »

September 2018 Once you’ve made it through freshers week and you’ve managed to find at least one form of alcohol that’s bound to give you ... Read more »

Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS) have announced their winners for 2018, with Edinburgh International Festival’s production of Rhino... Read more »

Giant Lanterns Edinburgh Zoo, various dates until Feb 2026The Giant Lantern trail is coming back to Edinburgh Zoo for the first time in six years. Running t... Read more »

As June starts festivals like the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, Take Me Somewhere and Hidden Door are still going strong, so remember to... Read more »

Writer and performer Harry Josephine Giles is known for working at the intersections. Their debut novel Deep Wheel Orcadia blends poetry and prose, science f... Read more »

Did somebody say Festival? No, not the one that we love and fear, but the end of March and the start of April marks the beginning of the 2018 Edinburgh Inter... Read more »

It’s the month we’ve all been waiting for, as March brings us StAnza, Scotland’s own International Poetry Festival, from 7-11 March. Set in... Read more »

Looking back at the year 2018 in the world of Scottish music shouldn’t be difficult. It has been a stellar year – in fact, you’d be hard-pr... Read more »

Since its publication in 2016, Amy Liptrot’s memoir The Outrun has won readers’ hearts along with plenty of critical acclaim. Her unflinching, po... Read more »

Handmade FestivalO2 Academy, Leicester, 5-6 MayCirca Waves, Drenge, The Big Moon, Protomartyr, Future of the Left and Idles lead the musical charge for Handm... Read more »

1970s: Tamara Krikorian Fruitmarket opened at its current site, above Edinburgh’s Waverley station, in 1974, operating initially from just its ground ... Read more »

It’s time to unleash your inner scientist and get cultured: the Edinburgh International Science Festival is here to expand our minds and teach us about... Read more »

Comedy has long had a nerdy side, but in recent years there's been an explosion in humour with a strong scientific flavour. At the forefront of this movement... Read more »

At a launch today, this year's programme for the Edinburgh International Science Festival (5-20 April) was unveiled, revealing a diverse platform o... Read more »

There’s a mysterious hum about Summerhall Courtyard tonight: bassy grumblings echoing from the pre-event warm-up dome, and The Royal Dick bar filling t... Read more »

In just a few weeks time, Edinburgh will host the annual International Science Festival (4-17 Apr). Whether you’re actively involved in the scienc... Read more »

Timing is everything, folks. Here we are, with food being figuratively dragged through the mud because some folk have literally been horsing around with it. ... Read more »

Down with the evil penis! End the vile tyranny of the phallus! You may have been tempted to run screaming into the streets and begin your own private uprisin... Read more »

Motion pictures have a lot to answer for. They lie to us, to contradict Godard, at 24 frames a second. Think of all the poor kids who put themselves through ... Read more »

Read on for our musings about: what exactly what it feels like to go on a Reindeer Safari (yep), the bleak implications of robotic battlefield scenarios (thi... Read more »

History is full of bizarre dishes that look like the authors ran into a dark pantry and grabbed the first things that came to hand, and maths is useful when ... Read more »

Science and food have long enjoyed a close relationship, from Ivan Pavlov breaking from his important work of starving dogs to knock up a quick meringue-ba... Read more »

Like a delightful sci-fi mutation, the Edinburgh International Film Festival has some tantalising additional film events protruding from its excellent main p... Read more »

Personally, I’m not a huge fan of the ‘double-blind study, control group, wait-a-decade-for-test-results” kind of science. Give me proper m... Read more »

Edinburgh’s International Science Festival returns this month with a cheeky programme of adult themed lectures and events to stimulate broad-minded sci... Read more »

Dr Raj Persaud - 18th, 4.30pm A renowned consultant psychiatrist, Persaud is a divisive figure: some see him as ahead of his time for promoting the use of h... Read more »

'If Paris, London and Milan can, why not Edinburgh?' We at The Skinny imagine this is how the conversation that will result in the Edinburgh International Fa... Read more »

Last year at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, James Robertson aired his Megrahi conspiracy, former CIA officer Michael Scheuer was heckled by a pro... Read more »

The Edinburgh Book Festival serves as the launch event of The Man Booker Prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s latest novel, MaddAddam, with ... Read more »