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Why city's £2bn tram plan is about tackling poverty as much as congestion
1+ week, 2+ day ago (367+ words) Why city's "2bn tram plan is about tackling poverty as much as congestion'edinburghinquirer.co.uk Why city's "2bn tram plan is about tackling poverty as much as congestion The proposed Granton to Little France route could improve lives in the Capital's most…...
The sanitisation of Edinburgh's alternative music soul
1+ week, 5+ day ago (728+ words) The Cowgate is facing pasteurisation. For three and a half decades, the venue at 71 Cowgate has been the city's premier sanctuary for the loud, the weird, and the gloriously unpretentious. Known to veterans as Opium and lately as Legends, it…...
West End residents versus the world's biggest investment fund
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1298+ words) Developers linked to the world's biggest investment fund, BlackRock, are being accused of "cynically undermining local democracy" in their bid to create a huge capsule hotel in the West End. Canary Wharf-based Atholl Crescent Propco (ACP) have submitted plans to…...
The quiet cultural engineer
4+ week, 2+ day ago (676+ words) Both those things - the oral storytelling thing and the development of the National Theatre - came out of that key period of struggle in the 1980s. It's lovely to me that at this point I'm moving on from being involved. I won't…...
How Arthur's Seat got its name: Exploring prehistoric Edinburgh
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (738+ words) The famed split in Edinburgh's personality between medieval Old Town and Enlightenment-era New Town understandably overshadows the remnants of more ancient times in the public consciousness. Intangible tales from our reckoning with Rome to the naming of Arthur's Seat might…...
Edinburgh gets the Bank Holiday blues
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1267+ words) Good news. The King has declared there will be an extra Bank Holiday on 15 June to celebrate Scotland's first match at a men's World Cup finals in 28 years. Bad news. There's a fair chance that you are not getting the…...
He delivered 'the greatest ever Hamlet', then eight weeks later died
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (987+ words) It was a performance of Shakespeare's masterpiece "Hamlet" that would go down in the annals of theatrical history. Hamlet, wounded by Laertes' poisoned blade, knows death is coming and utters his final words, "the rest is silence." And silence did…...
The RSA at 200: Redefining Edinburgh's original art house for the 21st century
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1107+ words) Our long read today takes you inside that other great art institution on the Mound, alongside the National Galleries, the Royal Scottish Academy. Maybe you don't know the difference between the two. If so, you wouldn't be alone, after all…...
'The Cockburn has a reputation for saying no, but honestly it's not deserved"
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (685+ words) A "motorway" cutting through the heart of Edinburgh and a giant roundabout in the heart of the West End. A towering high-rise the height of Edinburgh Castle at Haymarket and the public barred from Princes Street Gardens . Some of the…...
How one generous bike mechanic helped change thousands of lives
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (253+ words) It started with a "bike-shaped object" It all began one Christmas Eve, when Steven, a Scottish public health worker, and Yaman, a refugee from Syria, went to a bike shop. Yaman had bought a second-hand bike for roughly "15. "Unfortunately, it…...