From sketch revival baptism to hilariously honest stand-up, the comedian is turning her chaotic lived experience into a comedy gold mine ...

This year’s winner of the Billy Connolly Spirit Of Glasgow Award is the highest ranking comic on our list. Murray Robertson ...

On paper, it sounded like commercial suicide. Who would programme a lecture on a Sunday afternoon in January and expect more than half a dozen folk to turn up? And in one of Glasgow’s biggest theatres ...

Co-founding Leith Kino, arguably Edinburgh’s hippest community cinema venture, has been only one achievement for this fixture of Edinburgh’s creative scene. They’ve also continued doing fine work with ...

Interdisciplinary artist Aqsa Arif grew up watching Bollywood blockbusters and soap operas from Lollywood (named after Lahore, Pakistan’s film industry). When she made Raindrops Of Rani, a sumptuous, ...

Simone Seales has had a wild year. Though when asked to recall it, they stall. ‘I’m really bad at remembering what I’ve done,’ they laugh, screwing up their face in concentration. Understandable: in ...

You would expect Scotland’s national poet to have a heavily marked dance card. Having only taken up the role in December of last year, Peter Mackay, the first native Gaelic speaker to be appointed ...

From the biggest festivals to the smallest comedy shows, the world of art and culture has found itself wrestling with genocide in Palestine. In many cases, these discussions sidelined Palestinian ...

Legendary iconic acting superstar Sean Bean has partaken many a holiday, or ‘campaign’, as he likes to call them. Trafalgar. Waterloo. Center Parcs. Here, ...

Much is riding on the success of Battlefield 6, not least the need to recoup the game’s eye-watering budget (reported at around $450m). Three years ago, predecessor Battlefield 2042 launched to a ...

Matthew Holness' cast-iron commitment to never breaking character as his self-aggrandising horror novelist Garth Marenghi, not in interviews, nor the Q&A session with which he 'pads' this latest book ...

Edward Berger is on a roll. The German-born director’s electrifying 2022 film, All Quiet On The Western Front, won four Oscars and saw him nominated for best adapted screenplay, swiftly followed by ...