Love these century old pictures of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Might be the ‘boulevards’ or the gardens but both cities look a bit like Paris. There’s also pictures of Perth, Portobello, Largs, Rothesay. Thanks to one of our featured Fife Creatives, Clive Ramage for sharing the pictures. Above, Edinburgh and below, Glasgow Below, Portobello Below, Perth, Rothesay and Largs
Paul from Reuben’s Wine Store gives us the low down on gin. The store will be hosting a gin tasting at The Bruery, Dunfermline this Thursday, 22 January. Shaken, not stirred! ……. …. There’s something very British about Gin, not just because of London Dry or the links with Imperial rule in the far-east but the way it’s been ever present in our society for so long and across so
The family run Unicorn Inn, Kincardine has won a Taste Our Best award. The brasserie received the award on 15 January for their commitment to including and promoting Scottish food and drink on their menu. Brian Jones and his wife Michelle include dishes such as a haggis and tattie scone tower, Scottish smoked salmon with pickled beetroot and Scottish strawberry pavlova with fruit coulis on their menu. Michelle and Brian
Instead of leaving paintbrushes sitting in jars of white spirit for weeks only to end up chucking them in the bin, San Francisco-based artist, Rebecca Szeto has transformed paintbrushes into beautiful renaissance ladies. Dried up paint brushes never looked so good.
While the world is renouncing alcohol today spare a thought for this little penguin whose best friend is a bottle of red wine. Artist Oleg Borodin initially created the penguin as an idea for a children’s book but realised the penguin looked a bit sad and lonely. He decided to give the character a best friend and the illustrator happened to like red wine.
Dundee MakerSpace is celebrating their new home by holding their most pointless event to date. The Pointlessness Hackathon will run on the 10 and 11 January 2015 and challenges you to make the most pointless thing you can think of. So what is a Pointlessness Hackathon? At the Hackathon you will have a day and a bit to make the most pointless thing you can think of. It can be
These beautiful illustrations were painted between 1959 and 1970 by painter and illustrator Michael Johnson. Born in Thirsk, North Yorkshire Michael completed a three year scholarship in art and design before joining a design company in Leeds. Later he moved to London and worked for Carlton Artists which, at the time, had the biggest studio in Europe. In the late 60s he moved to America, where he worked publications such
The Biscuit Gallery & Cafe, Culross is getting into the festive spirit serving complimentary mulled wine and mince pies at their late night shopping evening this Friday. Cafe owner Niall Campbell has just heard that his application for a licence was successful and the cafe/shop can now serve wine. Customers and locals will also be able to buy prints, accessories and ceramics – many of the ceramics are made in
In Glasgow there’s a women-only whisky club. It was started by 29 year-old Geraldine Murphy after the Murphy family took over the Pot Still Bar three years ago. The traditional pub in Hope Street tends to have a male clientele and the assistant manager wanted women to be able to come in to the bar and feel happy asking staff about one of the largest selection of whiskies in Scotland.
Congratulations to Dundee which has received the global recognition and title of UNESCO City of Design, the only UK city (along with Helsinki, Turin, Bilbao and Curitiba) to join 12 others including Kobe, Montréal, Seoul, Berlin and Buenos Aires. There are many reasons why Dundee has received this title; from the much-anticipated V&A and its surrounding waterfront development which will host new creative studios, District10, created from shipping containers. Then there’s city