Arts and entertainment

Edinburgh Festival Timeline

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
Edinburgh Festival Guide
13 July 2009
Claire Sawers jogs down memory lane with some landmark Edinburgh Festival moments

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Robyn Peterson - Catwalk Confidential

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
Edinburgh Festival Guide
13 July 2009

Talent-spotted at 14 by Valentino, photographed for Elle by Helmut Newton and assaulted with a lemon meringue pie in The Sopranos, Robyn Peterson reveals all in her one-woman show Catwalk Confidential. The 70s fashion icon tells Claire Sawers how a Florida girl came of age

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The Twilight Sad

Category: Arts and entertainment, Features, Interviews

The Scotsman
23 May 2009
 

A few bright sparks
There is a spring heatwave in New York. Flip flops are sticking on melted tarmac and strange smells come wafting out of warm Chinatown bins.

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Creative writing - Graffiti in Scotland

Category: Arts and entertainment, Features

The List
14 May 2009
From Loanhead to Glasgow there’s a rich heritage of graffiti art in Scotland. Claire Sawers speaks to two of the key figures on the scene, Elph and Derm

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Musicians’ guide: How to make it in the music industry

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
27 November 2008
Want to make it in music? Fancy yourself as The Next Big Thing? Claire Sawers and Malcolm Jack track down nine very different people currently working in the industry and quiz them on just what they do and how they do it.

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New tricks - Magic on the Fringe

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
05 August 2008
Conjuring tricks and card chicanery may have long disappeared from our tellies, but as Claire Sawers discovers, the appeal of stage magic has never really gone away

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Pajama Men - Night moves

Category: Arts and entertainment

The List
31 July 2008
Their brand of unique, unhinged comedy has had critics and judges raving about the Pajama Men. Claire Sawers finds that they’re keeping the silly wigs firmly in the bag

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Club Noir: The big tease

Category: Arts and entertainment

The Sunday Times
03 August 2008
The world’s biggest burlesque club night is in… Glasgow, and it’s shimmying into Edinburgh for a festival fan dance

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A Pair of Charmers

Category: Arts and entertainment

The Sunday Times
10 August 2008
Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod aim to make Edinburgh brains melt. The Macabre magicians take their twisted act to the Fringe

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Plays cut deep into Deepcut scandal

Category: Arts and entertainment

The Sunday Times
27 July 2008
Two new works hope to reignite debate over the deaths at infamous barracks

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