As a writer, Emily contributes to news, features, comment, science & technology, lifestyle, tv & radio, culture and sport. This native Seattlite is a cake pop enthusiast who can regularly be found trying to make eye-contact with stranger’s dogs on the streets of Edinburgh.
The moment Radha Agrawal “knew something had to change” was when she found herself returning to the same bar with the same people to drink too much, only to feel the same loneliness. Now that she feels more connected than ever, she’s realised that her alienation was nothing special in a country starved of the […]
Till’s was opened in 1986 by Rick and Ann Till and is still managed by Rick today. The Canadian transplant boasts a huge selection of fiction and non-fiction, many of the books sporting charming discontinued covers. When the fire is lit on a winter’s day, it’s easy for a Till’s customer to imagine themselves in […]
Bonfire Night is a festival celebrated in many locales around the former British Empire commemorating the failure of a Roman Catholic plot on the reign of King James (I of England and VI of Scotland). Often known as Guy Fawkes Night after the first conspirator apprehended, the holiday celebrates how the House of Lords was […]
The first meeting of the Queer Arts Collective was convened at Alberta’s at the Edinburgh College of Art campus to discuss its potential direction. Led by Natasha Ion, Edinburgh University Students’ Association LGBT+ Liberation Officer, and Fiona Gray, the ECA Undergraduate School Convener, the Facebook event said the event was to be open to “artists […]
Last Thursday, 25 October, there was an event on Jawbone Walk promoting safety in the Meadows. Representatives from Friends of the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, Edinburgh Police, the University of Edinburgh and the City of Edinburgh Council attended. Much of the event was focused on bike safety, with stations for bike registry and repair. The […]
In the rapidly developing podcast scene, audio dramas are not where you would expect them to be. Cult favourites like Campfire Radio Theatre and The Nosleep Podcast have a surreal campy quality that keeps the audience listening for the story, but hardly convinces them of reality. The Shadows from CBC Podcasts, in contrast, is stunningly […]
Content warning: mention of rape The University of Glasgow has announced a programme of reparative justice after the publication of two years’ worth of research regarding the institution’s historical connections to the slave trade. In a paper titled ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’, Dr Simon Newman and Dr Stephen Mullen write about the […]
American Vandal delighted Serial fans everywhere, with their in-depth mockumentary-style coverage of a high school, in which the most likely suspect was accused of spray painting penises on the teachers’ cars. Like a wrongfully convicted murderer vindicated via podcast, two student journalists cleared the perpetrator’s name and acquire justice for the school’s teachers. Season two […]