Hotel technology: Village Hotels will become the first chain in the UK to install a virtual concierge, with the help of a Glasgow creative agency. The company is taking the multi-channel customer experience to the next level by rolling out virtual assistant Amazon Alexa in all its 28 hotels. The devices are currently being piloted in […]
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Dancing away the years to Johnny and Baby
Theatre review – Dirty Dancing: It’s hardly credible that the film Dirty Dancing is 30 years old. This week the highly successful stage version full of high kicks and lifts has touched down in Edinburgh’s Playhouse for a week long run. On opening night there was enhanced security at the Playhouse which did not detract […]
Interview: Robin McGregor, golf developer
Course of action: To the unaware it may look like any other golf course, but for Robin McGregor the nine holes circled by Musselburgh racecourse are a piece of Scotland’s neglected sporting history. There is documented evidence that golf was played at the links in 1672, and it is reputed that in 1567 Mary Queen […]
Weisz plays villain and victim to glorious effect
Film review – My Cousin Rachel (PG): If casting maketh the film then Rachel Weisz’s deliciously mesmerising portrayal of her namesake makes this a worthy interpretation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel. The 1952 version, starring Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton, received four Oscar nominations. Throughout this adaptation Weisz commands the title role in a manner […]
Fringe offers ‘alliance of defiance’ with more shows
Edinburgh Fringe: There will be a third more overseas countries represented at this year’s Fringe, the strongest ever international flavour for the summer event. They will come together under a marketing campaign slogan “Alliance of Defiance” which will position the Fringe as free of any censorship. It has been inspired by the Fringe’s origin in 1947 […]