Summer of Love - yes, really!

Music promoter Steve Dickinson has program-med a series of events under the banner Summer Of Love. Things kick off on 12 July with Edwina Hayes supported by Luke Keegan and Harriet Frank at the...

Musicport line-up announced

A mouth-watering line up is being drawn up for this year’s Musicport. Scheduled for 23 to 25 October at Bridlington Spa, the festival has announced a host of acts, including Nitin Sawhney,...

Veg project is growing

The land share project by Castle Community Partnership and Scarborough Local Food Group is taking shape with plans to map under-used land. A meeting this month will discuss the project, which aims...

Poets go down to the sea again

Scarborough Poetry Workshop members are inviting people to join them for an evening cruise aboard the Coronia. The event will raise funds for the Scarborough Samaritans, thanks to Tom Machin, owner...

Studios open doors again

Son of Clint heads for jazzfest

Fusion style for new cookery school

Film fest gives Whitby a re-vamp

Putting your back into veg growing

Little house appears on prairie

Writer roughs up Vikings for festival

Hunter: one to catch at comedy club

Fishy turn as jazzfest gets in the swim

He's back - and this time it's personal

All in for a freeform party

Scarborough’s illustrious home of goodtime music is 25 years old this month. Organiser Mike Gordon marks the occasion. This year Scarborough Jazz will have been running for twenty-five years,...

Coast to the world and back again

What can you say about a man that can produce not one but two masterpieces, within a month? That was the achievement of Mozart in an extraordinary blizzard of writing in March 1786. Not only that, his...

Trouble in mind: why the blues is big

Live music in Scarborough looks set for a timely boost with the formation of a new blues club. Based at Sigma, the lower floor of the Cask Inn, Scarborough Blues club will run every Thursday from 8pm...

Courtney Pine at the jazzfest

Saxophonist Courtney Pine is not simply a part of the British jazz revival, he is the guy who kicked the whole thing off. In the late 1980s Pine burst on to a jazz scene populated by dedicated, if ageing,...

Live and kicking in Ryedale

Review: Scarborough Symphony Orchestra

Beached blasts

World music Atlas: Natacha and the TGU lads hit town

The hypnotist: Geno Washington interviewed

Victoria: the Wright stuff

Porthole's touring world

A woman's heart: Eleanor McEvoy

Sahara To Sea Wall

Mighty Musicport

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

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

Artist Grayson Perry has a flamboyant image. But his selection of British work for a show visiting Scarborough Art Gallery shows a reflective side, finds Roger Osborne For an artist with such...

Review: East Coasting

Stephen Wood reviews the Bawden and Ravilious show at Scarborough Art Gallery I thought I was new to the work of both Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden until I realised I’d seen Knole Park...

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

South Street Gallery: The New Wave

Jehan (David Yates): New Work

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

Moonlight and Magnolias at the Stephen Joseph Theatre is a surefire winner with its Hollywood tale of glamour, big bucks and crisis, finds Roger Osborne Ron Hutchinson’s take on the strains...

Making oven clips

 Janis Bright talks to Christophe Alix about the art of performance baking The possibility of falling flat in performance obviously holds no fear for Christophe Alix. The theatre and performance...

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

Opera undressed

Ayckbourn: master of space

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

We're setting the ball rolling with a few reviews of the excellent Coastival events. Want to add your review of one you saw? Drop us an email at editor@hightidemagazine.com  John Shuttleworth...

Coastival explorer

A round-up of some of the more interesting, quirky, exciting and downright strange events (in the editor’s humble opinion) happening on Valentine’s weekend. Check prices and timings on the...

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

Mucking about in boats - Seafest, Filey Fest

Return of the Rotunda