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Et all basically means 'everything else'! There's plenty to do in Edinburgh that doesn't fit into the category of food, shopping, travel, festival, entertainment and businesses - so, we created this category to cover... well, whatever else we choose to cover!

Things like massages/wellness, competitions, experiences, events and even some appropriate Edinburgh-based headlines that have got people talking/captured our imaginations!

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Competition: A DVD of Avarice

March 2, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 13 Comments

Avarice is a film about the strange happenings which follow an odd black box that falls from space. The first victim is an innocent husband. He wakes one night to find his wife missing from their bed, that she’s stolen the black box and run off with her lover. He tracks them down only to […]

Star Wars in Edinburgh

February 24, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Glasgow based freelance designer and animator Mark Boyle will be at the Capital Sci-Fi convention at Meadowbank Sports Centre this weekend. His project “Star Wars in Edinburgh” will premier at the convention with prints selling from only £5. Money raised goes to the children’s charity CHAS. He shared a teaser of the work so let’s […]

Scotland. A Spirit of its own.

February 10, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Looking for the full collection of “Scotland. A Spirit of its own” videos? There’s a few to watch. Scotland. A Spirit of its own: Spirit Lights This video features the Isle of Skye, Camsusdarach Beach on Arisaig, The Kelpies, Falkirk Wheel, the Glenfinnan Viaduct, Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfries & Galloway, the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, […]

Jurys Inn brings a Greek love god to Edinburgh

February 9, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day is coming up and Jurys Inn are using a webcomic to suggest Edinburgh as one the best places in the UK to propose in. John wants to propose to Jen but doesn’t know where to start. Cue Anteros, the Greek god of requited love, who takes John on a tour of some of […]

Behind the scenes at the Edinburgh Cycle Challenge

February 5, 2016 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Claire Connachan is the Challenge Manager for Love to Ride’s Edinburgh Cycle Challenge, coming to the city from 1 – 21 March. She’s been kind enough to spare some time for Edinburgh Reviews while we ask about the challenge. You only asking people to ride for 10 minutes or more? Is that really enough to […]

143 years of transport for Edinburgh

February 24, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The animation was made by Heehaw Digital for Lothian Buses to celebrate 143 years of life. 1871 sees the trams arrive in Edinburgh; that’s before Waverly Station. Broughton Street had Edinburgh’s first ever traffic lights.

Sponsored Video: Rachel Sermanni and the RBS Mobile Banking video

January 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You may well have seen plenty of banking adverts already this year. There’s been some about getting back to basics, some about rebuilding trust and others that just focus on the money. Here’s an ad from RBS that tries to do something else; it’s about being useful in this mobile world. The ad is called […]

What’s going on with the giant shopping bag in Bristo Square?

November 8, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Have you seen the giant shopping bag in Bristo Square? It’s part of a campaign to get Edinburgh excited for Christmas by Rakuten Play. Rakuten is a big Japanese shopping site that bought Play.com a while back. Play’s now called Rakuten Play.com and the address on the bag is www.rakuten.co.uk. It’s a marketing campaign from […]

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