Arts trail launches

A new arts trail for Scarborough launches this month. CHART Scarborough is a new type of map, setting out the town’s cultural and creative hotspots in both paper and website form. Its aim is to encourage...

Live costs less

Ryedale Live has cut the price of tickets for its birthday gig at Helmsley Arts Centre on 26 June. They are now just £7.50. Players lined up for the second birthday celebration include Alice...

Art quartet at Thirsk

Scarborough artists are moving inland for a show in Thirsk next month. Sally Greaves-Lord is showing new work in textiles, together with ceramics by Remon Jephcott. Marlene McKibbin's jewellery and etchings...

Woolly mammoth

Are you nifty with a knitting needle? Then Scarborough arts development agency Create wants to hear from you. As part of North Yorkshire Open Studios 2010, an...

Hardy annual: project records Scarborough life

Class does lines

New waves

Live and spinning

Actors and musicians team up

Barrowcliffe Stories goes to Europe

Performers at the cutting edge

New gallery opens

Last trains to, er, Nunthorpe

Fans head for Jakefest

Sparkling music for diamond event

Scarborough Symphony Orchestra reaches the climax of its diamond jubilee celebrations on 17 July with its final concert of the season at the Spa. The concert will include Mendelssohn’s Hebrides...

Total meltdown: Blast Furnace returns

It’s the late seventies. Punk has been tearing a satisfying swathe through the likes of Yes, ELP and, god help us, The Sweet. So naturally, you think, what we need is...

Wild Willy - he's livid

Willy Barrett is one of those annoying people who are so naturally musical they can play just about anything. And in Willy’s case, he probably has. He’s been...

Bex gets the blues

If you like a music performance that stays with you, then Bex Marshall could be right for you. She manages to overturn all the old clichés – she’s a white,...

Red hot and unplugged

Rolling out the barrel for freedom

Jousting guitars compete for top slot

Misty plays for Musicport

Brass, bass and step on the gas

Blues club keeps on rollin'

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

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

Covering space: Jonathan Green

An art show for just one week explores not just installations but the spaces in between. Jonathan Green’s exhibition at Crescent Artspace in Queen Street involves...

Gone, but ... Gristhorpe Man returns

A talking head with a 4,000 year history goes on display at the Rotunda this month. The spooky exhibit is the reconstructed face of the bronze age Gristhorpe Man whose skeleton...

If the wrap fits: Lindsey Tyson

Scarborough Art Gallery hosts a sumptuous display of ‘wearable art’ textiles by Lindsey Tyson this month. The All Wrapped Up exhibition, in the Coffee Lounge, will feature a hand picked collection...

Small world: Clothylde Vergnes

As the North Yorkshire Open Studios season starts on 11 June, we asked artist Clothylde Vergnes to talk about her work and the event. Along with over 100 artists, Clothylde Vergnes has been selected...

Art shows its craft: Open Studios

Life on the hoof: review - Sarah Venus

Shaping up: Helen Donnelly at Queen Street

Changing rooms: beach huts on show

Starting from scratch: printmaking for all

The basement tapes: 30 years of Crescent Arts

Game plan to overcome social stigma

Whatever floats your boat

All fired up: glassblowing in Ryedale

Rachel Howfield: stories from a place

The sack race gets jumping

Glaisdale’s professional theatre company presents its summer run this month with a take on David Nobbs’ famous novel Second from last in the sack race. Don’t...

Review: Boston Marriage

Perhaps stung by critics’ claims his work is misogynistic, David Mamet wrote this three hander for an all-women cast. Set in a nineteenth century drawing room with a nice line in chintz, the drama...

Mamet's Marriage at the SJT

Boston Marriage by David Mamet opens this month at the SJT. Roger Osborne takes a look at the script for this preview   What happens when you cross Oscar Wilde...

Books from the heart: Rouhi Shafii

In a world of twenty-four hour news and information we are still surprisingly ignorant of how our fellow humans live. The recent turmoil in Iran filled our TV screens for a...

Chilling drama on tour

The Swansea standup: Rob Brydon

Review: Sizwe Banzi is Dead

August in Glaisdale goes to April in Paris

Pratfalls and other gags: Whitby comedy

Review: Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias

LA confidential

Making oven clips

Steering through stormy waters

Image and ambiguity: Vaughan Oliver

Just a handful of people get to give a visual identity to an era; Vaughan Oliver definitely is one of those. The 1980s were the breakthrough years for Oliver, a graphic designer...

AfterShock rocks

Young people will get the chance to work with professional artists this month at a mini-festival organised by North Yorkshire County Council. The AfterShock event includes...

Dreamworlds: Helen Burke

Poet Helen Burke visits this month as part of the run-up to The Long Weekend, Scarborough’s literature festival, which takes place in April.   In the...

Tony Bartholomew: lensman

Janis Bright previews a classy photography workshop He’s got everyone from ladies in the bakery to prime ministers to pose for him. But he still spends hours at his desk scrutinising what...

First bite for horrorfest

Britflicks bonanza

Much more than window dressing

Obama and me: Niall Stanage interviewed

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