Stagecraft finds a home

Yorkshire Coast Homes and the Stephen Joseph Theatre have joined together to offer an exciting new project – Stagecraft.   Stagecraft is a performance arts project which allows children...

Bombardment centenary remembered

Scarborough Museums Trust is to spearhead an ambitious programme marking next year’s centenary of the start of the First World War and the bombardment of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool after...

Eastwood and Pine head for jazzfest

Scarborough Jazz Festival has announced another great programme.  One highlight is Courtney Pine whose CD House of Legends was voted, by a convincing margin, the 2012 Album of the Year...

Women's Day words and music

Two singing groups are to headline at an all day event celebrating international women's day in March. Local six-piece Raven are joined by Global Voices, another all-female group. Scarborough poetry...

Gallery flies a Clytie

Musicport set for glorious return to Whitby

Awards for jazz club

Wren's Tale author in town

Review: Blithe Spirit

Appeal on Bawden map

New season for film society

Prize for Price

Whitby life explored in art and craft

Gathering heads for the pub

Musicport back to its roots

MUSICPORT returns to its Whitby roots this year. The homecoming line-up, from 5-7 October, includes acts from France, Palestine, the USA, Papua and Madagascar. The annual festival of music from...

Burton brews up

Put together an Elizabethan hall set in 15 acres of beautiful grounds and a mix of of funk, traditional jazz, hard blues and dreamy vocals and what have you got? Answer: the strange and wonderful...

Soaring melodies from sleek Raven

RAVEN have soared to dizzy new heights with their fourth and most accomplished album writes Dave Barry. Near to Me was launched at an intimate soirée at Woodend, where the six performers...

Magical voice of Ferrier heard again on anniversary

Precisely 60 years after Kathleen Ferrier performed in Scarborough, the concert is to be recreated at the same venue in January. It will be the first of many events around the country commemorating the...

Dancing shoes on: it's Musicport

Box set for Acoustic Gathering

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

The Squatters play house

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

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

Review: The Thrill of Love

Who was the second-last woman hanged in Britain? The seventh-last? No, me either. Ruth Ellis achieved the saddest variety of fame, in being the final one, and helping ensure no more suffered...

Bloke from the Big Country: Rich Hall

Fairly loud though he is, Rich Hall is a comedian who creeps up on you. His appearances on TV shows like Buzzcocks and Have I Got News For You haven't been the motormouth type you get from too many lad...

The Valleys come to the moors

Arts Council meanness can’t keep the irrepressible Esk Valley Theatre down. The small but perfectly formed professional company has reacted to a grant cut with a series of great fund raising...

Review: The importance of being Earnest

An encounter with old friends can be tricky. Will they still be the same, or will we have grown apart? Will our idealised memories be rudely dashed by the real thing?  So it goes...

Review: Lost and Found

Host of writers for Long Weekend litfest

Stalked by Flowers comes into bloom

Getting it write: Roger Osborne

A living memento: Monica Ross

ASBOs over suburbia: Ayckbourn bites

Review: Carmen

Turning the heat on the upper classes: Dear Uncle

The seducer hooked: Yalta Game

Review: Marlene

Flying wheels: festival of cycling

These days you can’t accuse Scarborough of being behind the peloton. With Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton and Shanaze Reade making cycling too cool for school, here comes our own mightily...

Slightly Steve tunes in

The web being that people-friendly thing that it is, it’s becoming easier to get your creative ideas seen. One Scarborian with far too much time on his hands, Slightly Steve, has set up...

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

Slow burn: Craig Charles at Coastival

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