Performers at the cutting edge

Scarborough Campus’ eclectic performance season gets underway this month. On the Edge, programmed by Jo Beddoe, has brought dance, theatre, music, poetry and even performance cooking to the stage...

New gallery opens

Photographer Graham Rhodes has opened a new gallery in Scarborough. Called Aakschipper Images, it can be found at 10 West Pier, on the harbour. More info on his website www.aakschipperimages.com.

Last trains to, er, Nunthorpe

There's still a chance to catch the Esk Valley Railway Music and Ale trains running on Friday evenings until 11 September, and once again on 30 October. The trains, featuring different musicians,...

Fans head for Jakefest

Scarborough fans of rogue songwriter Jake Thackray are headed to the Dales this month for a night performing the old master's songs. This year's Jakefest on Saturday 5 September is being held at the...

Arts and culture mapped

Moorland sheep come to Scarborough

Westwood goes live

Summer of Love - yes, really!

Musicport line-up announced

Veg project is growing

Poets go down to the sea again

Studios open doors again

Son of Clint heads for jazzfest

Fusion style for new cookery school

Jousting guitars compete for top slot

Sounds like Scarborough repelling an alien invasion of South Bay, but Battle of the Sands is a musical showcase and talent competition rolled into one. Following on from last year’s successful event,...

Misty plays for Musicport

Britain’s biggest indoor festival of world music is showing alarming signs of getting even better. Those who made it to Bridlington Spa last year saw Musicport bedding itself into its new venue...

Brass, bass and step on the gas

Mike Gordon introduces this year’s Scarbborough Jazz Festival: Welcome to the seventh Scarborough Jazz Festival which this year sparkles with some great American jazz stars: Kyle Eastwood,...

Blues club keeps on rollin'

Just twelve months ago Scarborough music fan Mark Horsley decided to bite the bullet and launch a blues club, based at Sigma at the Cask. In its first year the club has put on an astonishing 70 gigs...

Peasholm Park greets its old China

Bands bring it all back home

All in for a freeform party

Coast to the world and back again

Trouble in mind: why the blues is big

Courtney Pine at the jazzfest

Live and kicking in Ryedale

Review: Scarborough Symphony Orchestra

Beached blasts

World music Atlas: Natacha and the TGU lads hit town

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

When someone in the High Tide office suggested a review of hand-made chocolates to touch our readers’ romantic Valentine-ish hearts (really?), suspicions were raised. Was the ulterior motive a little...

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

Pub Review - Leeds Arms

All fired up: glassblowing in Ryedale

Getting there by the quickest way slowly is how Kate Jones describes her art. It neatly sums up what’s needed – patience, certainly, and also a determination to stick at it, and an appetite...

Rachel Howfield: stories from a place

Artist Rachel Howfield previews her talk in Scarborough this month, in conversation with Roger Osborne The Overlooked Familiar is the title of Rachel Howfield’s ongoing research project,...

Jane Poulton: the high water of cathedral art

Filey-based Jane Poulton was an artist in residence at Liverpool’s two cathedrals during the city’s prestigious Capital of Culture celebrations. Together with her colleague Lin Holland, she...

Small wonder

 Angela Chalmers previews an eclectic new show at her South Street Gallery The Mini Art Show is a special event at The South Street Gallery that consists of two large walls of unframed original...

Grayson Perry: the quiet man of art

Review: East Coasting

Masters of art and design

Bawden and Ravilious reunited

Life's rich tapestry

Piaf: the fragile diva

A snappy take on Lacoste

Review: Scarborough Realists Now

Review: Rachel Howfield

The very odd Mr Punch

August in Glaisdale goes to April in Paris

Some people spend their whole year dreaming about their next summer holiday. For Sheila Carter and Mark Stratton it’s more a case of spending a year planning for the extraordinary three weeks of...

Pratfalls and other gags: Whitby comedy

Roger Osborne reports on a riotous month in prospect at Whitby This month your roving High Tide reporter called in to the Port Hole on Skinner Street in Whitby, centre of the global Musicport...

Review: Moonlight and Magnolias

The writers of Seinfeld used to point out that the show’s great strength was that the characters learnt nothing from their escapades. In this rip-roaring production at the SJT there’s...

Moonlight and Magnolias

The writers of Seinfeld used to point out that the show’s great strength was that the characters learnt nothing from their escapades. In this rip-roaring production at the SJT there’s...

LA confidential

Making oven clips

Steering through stormy waters

Criminal - hey, but lyrical: Sophie Hannah

An accidental death – and a revival

Jo Caulfield: secret of the sassy quip

Review: Haunting Julia

Chillout time: Solstice Festival

NSDF Programme

Comic with Pryor form

First bite for horrorfest

James Latimer introduces the first Bram Stoker International Film Festival The festival from 16 to 19 October was established in order to provide more opportunities and exposure for filmmakers,...

Britflicks bonanza

If you ever wondered what happened to the British film industry, call in at the Stephen Joseph Theatre this month for a thorough update. Five movies by British directors with homegrown stories...

Much more than window dressing

Janis Bright talks to the organiser of an initiative to smarten up the town centre and showcase both costume and live performances Nothing’s worse for morale than walking past an empty shop....

Obama and me: Niall Stanage interviewed

Journalist Niall Stanage followed Barack Obama’s campaign all the way from hopeful outsider to landslide president.  Roger Osborne spoke to him ahead of his appearance at this month’s...

Coastival reviews

Coastival explorer

Deep in the drive-by: Andy Hylton

Summer at the movies

See the world in shorts: filmmaking in Whitby

Behind the lines: Richard Seymour

Downhill all the way

Edith Sitwell: the face behind Façade

Surf's up!

Shows to get your teeth into