• Sat. Jul 27th, 2024

Emily Hall

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.

Belong

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…

Exploring Edinburgh’s bookshops: Till’s

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…

Guy Fawkes Night: Is this festival outdated?

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…

A positive start for the Queer Arts Collective

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…

Safety in the Meadows: advice from the police and others

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…

The Shadows

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…

The University of Glasgow’s move to abolish its historical connections to the slave trade

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…

American Vandal

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’…