River Rapids. Vortex. Twister. Stingray. If you know, you know. And if you don't, you weren't fortunate enough to be growing up in Edinburgh in the late 1980s through to the year 2000. I am referring of course to the legendary flumes of the city's Royal Commonwealth Pool. The flumes have been gone now for more than twice as long as they were with us, but for many they remain a bittersweet memory.…
As 2026 Pitti Uomo rapidly approaches, discover the legacy behind 109 seasons of Florence's most influential men's fashion and lifestyle trade show. A …
London’s Garden Museum explores the home of the East Anglian School
On this day, 40 years ago, a councillor cut the ceremonial ribbon and opened a section of cycle path in north Edinburgh. This was a rather special bit of cycle path however as it hadn't been built by the council. It was built by direct citizen action: over the course of a single week it had been reclaimed from the trackbed of an old railway a group of volunteers. Wind the clock forward four…
A new entry for the Vatican Observatory Faith & Science Resource Center (Younger Readers): A book on astronomer Vera Rubin, friend of the Vatican Observatory.
If you're at all familiar with the district of Bonnington then you may well know a burnt-out ruin on Newhaven Road. It's been this way long enough that you might not remember it being anything else. It certainly poses many questions. For a start; what was it, and how did it come to be in this sorry state? What are those over-grown terraces on the riverbank beneath it? And just what does the…
Bilimkurgunun ötesine geçerek sosyolojik bir dehşet anlatısına dönüşen bu kült yapım, sinema tarihinin en sarsıcı finallerinden biriyle bugün hala türünün en dürüst ve karanlık aynası olmayı sürdürüyor.
The jewellery designer's Heritage Collection presents rare 20th-century creations
Disney imzalı yıldızlarla dolu devam filmi, vizyona girdiği ilk hafta sonunda hem nostalji etkisi hem de güçlü oyuncu kadrosuyla dünya çapında 233 milyon doları aşarak dikkatleri üzerine çekti.
Miranda Priestly, Emily Charlton ve Andy Sachs’i yirmi yıl sonra bir araya getiren film, yalnızca bir devam hikayesi değil, değişen medya düzenine ve büyümenin getirdiği gerçekliklere dair doğru bir yüzleşme sunuyor.
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ için gerçekleştirilen programda ünlü oyuncu, günümüz filmlerinin giderek tek bir formüle indirgendiğinden yakındı.
'The Devil Wears Prada’nın merakla beklenen devam filmi, 1 Mayıs’ta vizyona girerek yaz sezonunu açmaya hazırlanıyor ve ilk izlenimlere göre yılın en iddialı gişe başarılarından biri olabilir.
When it closed its doors for the last time in 2022 the Victoria School in Newhaven was by far and away the oldest in the city still in public use. But this wasn't an end, it was merely the start of a new chapter in its long life. The old building soon re-opened as a community and heritage centre and - having finally outgrown the confines of its Victorian facilities - the school was moving to a…
20th Century Studios ve Disney imzalı devam filmi, 1 Mayıs 2026’da sinema salonlarında izleyicisiyle buluşacak.
April Fools' Day marks a suitable 30th birthday for the City of Edinburgh Council, a body which upon its establishment found itself in charge of a scheme promising
a cheap and easy transport fix but which proved to be anything of the sort. It was a scheme hallmarked by political intransigence, a perfidious PFI consortium, chaotic project management, acrimonious landowners, repeated threats of…
Edinburgh doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to building public concert halls; such projects usually involving endless (or even terminal) delays. Even the grand old lady of the Usher Hall is no exception, taking almost eighteen years to resolve wrangling over potential sites and for plans to come to fruition. A lesser told chapter in that story is that in order to make way for…
Despite being a local history site Threadinburgh does like to try and keep things topical sometimes, so when news broke that car park operator NCP had entered administration with huge debts I felt it was an opportune moment to take a quick look into its most prominent Edinburgh location; Castle Terrace Car Park. Any attempt at a quick and easy piece of research and writing soon went out the…
The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure
St Leonard's Crag is the romantic sounding name for a quarried-out promontory where Holyrood Park meets the old district of St Leonard's. Perched atop it is a handsome old building whose striking feature is a grand corner tower on which regular listeners with a keen eye will spot the letters "ESB "; a give-away that this was once a school. But not just any school, it was the last that would be…
Part eight of the "Lost School Boards" series pays a visit to St Leonard's Public School, one of which no trace now remains and that was thoroughly removed from the map in a 1980s redevelopment scheme. A building that was criticised for most of its life for being architecturally underwhelming and offering a dark and cramped site, it nevertheless provided ninety years of educational service to the…