Wren's Tale author in town

A FORMER Wren at Scarborough during the Second World War says she has been “amazed” at the response to her new book on her time at the Y-station above the town. Muriel Davison, 89, said she...

Review: Blithe Spirit

Oh those incorrigible upper crusters. Not content with a busy life of mixing Martinis and getting a Marcel wave, they have to hold a séance. And splatter my spats, the rather sensuous...

Appeal on Bawden map

The Friends of Scarborough Library have launched an appeal to restore the famous map of the town created by artist Edward Bawden. Once displayed prominently in the entrance to the children’s...

New season for film society

Scarborough Film Society continues to light up the darker months with a host of fascinating films from around the world. Audiences also get a chance to see British films that don’t feature...

Prize for Price

Whitby life explored in art and craft

Gathering heads for the pub

Pianist Yuki Negishi guests with orchestra

Big book giveaway with Chris Monks

Whopping cut hits theatre

Esk Valley announces summer thriller

Geordie comic sells out

Jazz favourite honoured

Majestic tale on stage

Dancing shoes on: it's Musicport

It’s here, it’s back and it’s wonderful all over again. Sometimes you just have to scratch your head and wonder just how Musicport manages to do it. Year after year they bring...

Box set for Acoustic Gathering

Eighties pop legends Red Box are to headline at this year’s Acoustic Gathering in Peasholm Park. The band founded by Simon Toulson-Clarke and Julian Close scored two huge hits with feelgood...

Jacques Loussier may have done it first but David Rees-Williams does it better

Mike Gordon tells the tale of how ‘every festival organiser’s nightmare’ was turned into a coup. The Director of Scarborough Jazz Festival was forced to...

The Squatters play house

DJ team The Squatters have become a global phenomenon – but they are returning to their Scarborough home this month to launch their new record label.   ...

Four day rumble with the Blues Festival

Reckoning with the Levellers

Something special: Laura Welburn

Sounds of Vienna waltz in

Field of dreams: leading music venue's makeover

From Sheffield to Ivory Coast: it must be Musicport

Deerstalking pays off for Acoustic Gathering

Sparkling music for diamond event

Total meltdown: Blast Furnace returns

Wild Willy - he's livid

Go wild for food

For something really special to put on the table this year, why not take a trip round the area and stock up on excellent local produce, says Chat Noir chef Yann Ruvoen The best journeys begin on...

Choo choo cha boogie

Once upon a time the traditional British seaside holiday seemed to be in terminal decline. Sandcastles and donkeys were just for those who couldn’t afford anything better. But change is afoot and people...

Restaurant Review - Castlegate Taberna

It’s a few years since the tapas craze hit these shores with a vengeance. In the 1990s, all over Britain, people were ordering patatas bravas and boquerones by the slack handful. The problem...

Restaurant Review - Scarborough Tandoori

Fishie on a dishie This must be Scarborough’s oldest Indian restaurant. It’s certainly got that venerable air, though happily the decor is modern – flock wallpaper a distant memory....

Choctastic Valentine's Day

Café Review - Harbour Bar

Restaurant Review - Fiesta Mehicana

Restaurant Review - The Three Jolly Sailors

Restaurant Review - The Bramblewick

Café Review - Francis Tearooms

Café Review - Café View

Café Review - Café Marmalades at Beiderbecke's Hotel

Café Review - Barista

Pub Review - Barracuda

Making Waves: Sea Swim show

There’s an old belief that, whatever you have lost, you’ll find it in the sea. We might be land-creatures but we are drawn to the water, and here in Scarborough we nestle around the...

It's that man again! Jehan in Malton

Scarborough-based artist Jehan is to showcase his photomontages for the first time in a solo exhibition titled Recur at Malton’s  contemporary art gallery Duckett & Jeffreys. ...

Review: Entwined

If you go down to Woodend today, you’re sure of a lovely surprise. Entwined is a magical exhibition of work by three talented Scarborough artists – jeweller Sam Birch, and textile...

Entwined: three artists and a venue

Places have a special meaning for us. They inspire, depress, spark off memories, bring passions to the surface. Some are for solitude and some – like creative industries centre Woodend...

On the edge: Kane Cunningham and Joe Cornish

The century's artists: John Piper and Howard Hodgkin

Some like it hot: time for teacups

Going with the flow: Sally Gatie and Ken Wood

Good enough to eat: photography on show

New gallery opens

Light and colour with an edge: stained glass

It's a ten! Storm Force breaks

Lines: Susan Timmins

A tale of tea: Judith Kerr

Stalked by Flowers comes into bloom

Beach Hut Theatre Company is presenting Alison Watt’s latest play, a comedy thriller called Stalked by Flowers, as part of Coastival’s Rather Splendid Day Out on Saturday 11 February,...

Getting it write: Roger Osborne

 Write about the contemporary world and you soon find that life really does imitate art. I had finished the third draft of The Art of Persuasion, a play set in the murky world of high-level politics...

A living memento: Monica Ross

The ripples from a terrible event can spread in unexpected ways, as an event this month in Scarborough confirms.   The tragic and mistaken shooting of Brazilian national Jean Charles...

ASBOs over suburbia: Ayckbourn bites

Seventy-five plays in, can there be anything left to mine in the suburban life seam? On this outing there certainly is, and Alan Ayckbourn is busy with the windy-hammer again.   ...

Review: Carmen

Turning the heat on the upper classes: Dear Uncle

The seducer hooked: Yalta Game

Review: Marlene

Director Chris Monks on Marlene

Some kind of a woman: Marlene

Review: The Price

Litfest first for a man of few words: Steve Bell

Miller's Tale: The Price visits Scarborough

A Hamlet true to himself

Steering by compass: Andrew Motion

‘Dryden got sacked.’ And therefore, Andrew Motion reminds me, he becomes the second person to taste life after being Poet Laureate. But certainly he’s the only one still living. ...

It all adds up to a brewing bash

Too good to be true – and yet there it is in all its splendour. The Northern Beards of the British Beard Club are all set for a glorious event and it’s not just about cutthroat competition,...

An emotional return: designer Richard Seymour

Scarborough-born Richard Seymour, one of the world's leading industrial designers, is to return to his home town in March to give an illustrated lecture.   The former...

Slow burn: Craig Charles at Coastival

Actor, comic and all-round daddy of cool Craig Charles is to do the honours at this year’s Coastival event on Saturday 11 February. The irrepressible Craig is taking time out from filming...

A story in code: Wren's tale

Watching brief: Tinker, Tailor on release

Mwaaah! It's theremin love

Swim out your story

Global perspectives at Bempton

Nice threads: storytelling for grownups

Morocco bound: Casablanca on the big screen

Grow your greens

Image and ambiguity: Vaughan Oliver

AfterShock rocks