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Amanda Knox is doing a comedy show at @gildedballoon.bsky.social as part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. We had a chat. In today’s Metro.

Having to supply your bank address when filling out a new supplier form is ridiculous. What you gonna do? Write to a vape shop?

Meet Snoot, Edinburgh Zoo’s three-month-old giant anteater pup, having a ride on mother Gizmo.

Edinburgh giraffes

Amanda Knox is doing a comedy show at @gildedballoon.bsky.social as part of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. We had a chat. In today’s Metro.

Stockard Channing is coming to Edinburgh next month, directing her pal David Westhead in Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. We had a chat about a trip to Skye, her early crush on Anthony Perkins and the value of not paying attention to what people say about you. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Stockard Channing: My husband says I look Scottish

The actress on why Six Degrees of Separation was so extraordinary, her Celtic roots and her most embarrassing moment on stage

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So very sad to hear of the death of one of my favourite artists, Christine Borland. I was lucky enough to interview her for Art Uk a few years ago and she was so generous and interesting. artuk.org/discover/sto...

Seven questions with Christine Borland

Explore 1 million artworks from 75,000 artists and 3,500 places for free. Art UK is the leading digital space to discover the UK’s public art collections.

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Look at all that good stuff in today’s Times Scotland - including highlights of this year’s Fringe by the Sea in North Berwick.

Thanks to Jack Dee for these cracking answers. You can read it in print in tomorrow's Times Scotland (Alba section), and see him in Edinburgh next month at the Assembly Rooms. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Jack Dee: I once did a gig for ‘remurderers’ at Perth Prison

The comedian and radio host on his most memorable show, most embarrassing moment and why when a job gets you down, you should work harder at it

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Lush Glasgow keeping it topical

Tom Read Wilson was every bit as charming and thoughtful as you’d hope. Catch him at @gildedballoon.bsky.social during the Fringe, then on tour afterward. Chat in today’s Metro.

trouteyes@trouteyes.bsky.social · 2y ago

This always reminds me of watching one of the most transporting pieces of theatre I’ve ever seen. It was in the round and, across from me, a music big wig spent the whole show focused entirely on a moth. He was like a cat - moving his whole head, not his eyeballs. We still do impressions.

When there's an enormous moth flapping around at your band's big photo shoot.

Roses are red Violets spread cheer

Blur's Alex James is bringing his Britpop Classical to North Berwick's Fringe by the Sea next month. Instead of a usual interview, I asked him questions posed by the good people of the town. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Blur’s Alex James: ‘You have to decide between death and moving to a farm’

Before his show at Fringe by the Sea, the bassist turned cheesemaker answers fan questions on life in the countryside and surviving rock’n’roll

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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 4w ago

Stockard Channing

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

The Loch of the Lowes osprey chick has been ringed and named! They reckon it’s a male. Look at those eyes.

That delivery date’s an extreme version of the marshmallow test.

See Tilda Swinton at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social in Edinburgh this autumn.

What a treat to chat to Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords, Bob's Burgers and more), who's doing a short Edinburgh run this year. 12-16 Aug, Pleasance. www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

Kristen Schaal: Letting kids on social media is like giving them cigarettes

The comedian on why children shouldn’t have their confidence questioned by big tech, her favourite stand-up and how Bob’s Burgers changed her life

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