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Perrier winner has comics smiling
28 August: The American comedian Rich Hall won the Perrier award at the Edinburgh fringe festival yesterday amid shameful scenes of good grace from other comedians.
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Don't shoot the Perrier judges!
27 August: The Perrier Award committee is comedy's version of the football referee. Whichever shortlist of nominees they decide upon is roundly condemned every year as wrong - boring, safe, predictable, biased, corrupt, racist, sexist, homophobic, elitist, cowardly...
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Goggle and boggle
27 August: Some are weird, some are wonderful, some are just scary. Welcome to the worst of the Fringe.
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Crane World
24 August: Cameo ****
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Film Unlimited's Edinburgh coverage
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Alcina
16 August: Edinburgh Festival Theatre *****
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Poisoned Welles
28 August: War of the Worlds *
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And then his tongue turns into a sea serpent...
27 August: Thunderstruck | Voices | Hopeless Games | War of the Worlds | Cabin Pressure
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Zinzin
22 August: Dynamic Earth ***
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Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight
24 August: Pleasance Below ***
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Sean Lock
24 August: Assembly Rooms ***
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Shirin Neshat
23 August: Fruitmarket Gallery ****
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Lawrence Weiner
16 August: Inverleith House ***
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It gets under your skin
29 August: Körper **** The Playhouse, Edinburgh
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Nobodies struggling to be somebodies
27 August: Les lieux de là | Poetic and Feral
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Taverner Consort/ Parrott
29 August: **** McEwan Hall, Edinburgh
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A faithful composer
29 August: Pénélope **** Edinburgh Festival Theatre
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Caroline Nin
21 August:
Assembly Rooms ****
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Child sex attacks 'merit vengeance'
16 August: The feminist writer Andrea Dworkin last night entered the Sarah Payne debate by declaring that the victims of child sex abuse have the right to kill paedophiles.
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Fringe benefits
17 August: The festival season brings cash galore to Edinburgh. Yet organisers say that the city council remains grudging in its support.
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Mailer gives up on sexual revolution
15 August: He is 77, and needs two sticks to walk, but the American novelist Norman Mailer last night proved he could still kick up a storm by condemning the sexual revolution in which he played such an active part.
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Fun at the festival
11 August: Arts correspondent Fiachra Gibbons describes the best and worst of his experiences at the Edinburgh festival, from the 'Puppetry of the Penis' to the locals. (2mins 40)
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Have I got news for you, Greg
9 August: Later this month Greg Dyke will be making a major speech on the future of the BBC at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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