New waves

The Spa in Scarborough is to host a series of top comedy acts this summer. In a first for the venue, the gigs will run throughout July and August.   The line-up...

Live and spinning

Roving acoustic event Ryedale Live has released a CD with 35 tracks from musicians who have performed at the event over the last year. Among the well known names are Alastair James, Anna Shannon, Billy...

Actors and musicians team up

A group of 40 young actors is to join the Scarborough Symphony Orchestra for a seasonal concert at the Spa this month. The actors are from the Stephen Joseph Youth Theatre's Rounders group, ably led...

Barrowcliffe Stories goes to Europe

Scarborough based filmmaker Claudia Nye is to present at this year’s prestigious World Forum Theatre Festival in Austria this month. She was invited to show her interactive film Barrowcliffe...

Performers at the cutting edge

New gallery opens

Last trains to, er, Nunthorpe

Fans head for Jakefest

Arts and culture mapped

Moorland sheep come to Scarborough

Westwood goes live

Summer of Love - yes, really!

Musicport line-up announced

Veg project is growing

Red hot and unplugged

Unplugged is the way to go in 2010, the promoters of Scarborough’s fantastically successful boutique festival Acoustic Gathering believe. So much so that they are taking the format monthly, with...

Rolling out the barrel for freedom

AI gig Musicians are a generous breed, often turning out to raise funds for good causes. But Amnesty International is held in particularly high regard by musicians, artists and writers all over...

Jousting guitars compete for top slot

Sounds like Scarborough repelling an alien invasion of South Bay, but Battle of the Sands is a musical showcase and talent competition rolled into one. Following on from last year’s successful event,...

Misty plays for Musicport

Britain’s biggest indoor festival of world music is showing alarming signs of getting even better. Those who made it to Bridlington Spa last year saw Musicport bedding itself into its new venue...

Brass, bass and step on the gas

Blues club keeps on rollin'

Peasholm Park greets its old China

Bands bring it all back home

All in for a freeform party

Coast to the world and back again

Trouble in mind: why the blues is big

Courtney Pine at the jazzfest

Live and kicking in Ryedale

Review: Scarborough Symphony Orchestra

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

When someone in the High Tide office suggested a review of hand-made chocolates to touch our readers’ romantic Valentine-ish hearts (really?), suspicions were raised. Was the ulterior motive a little...

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

Pub Review - Leeds Arms

The basement tapes: 30 years of Crescent Arts

Over here, a bloke in a bathtub jostles with a globe in a box. Crafted shapes suggest fruit baskets, but then the outdoor hovering grabs you eye. A Beano strip is a reminder of the day the group created...

Game plan to overcome social stigma

Viewers always want the bad news, Scarborough filmmaker turned researcher Claudia Nye has confirmed. Claudia took her interactive film Barrowcliffe Stories to the World Forum Theatre Festival in Vienna...

Whatever floats your boat

Roger Osborne visited the Art Gallery’s new hands-on show If you like a good dose of wit with your art, or with life in general, then Rock My Boat will certainly paddle your canoe. Who knew...

All fired up: glassblowing in Ryedale

Getting there by the quickest way slowly is how Kate Jones describes her art. It neatly sums up what’s needed – patience, certainly, and also a determination to stick at it, and an appetite...

Rachel Howfield: stories from a place

Jane Poulton: the high water of cathedral art

Small wonder

Grayson Perry: the quiet man of art

Review: East Coasting

Masters of art and design

Bawden and Ravilious reunited

Life's rich tapestry

Piaf: the fragile diva

A snappy take on Lacoste

The Swansea standup: Rob Brydon

I declare an interest: as not only a Welshman, but as an Elvis-loving man of Swansea, Rob Brydon is playing on home turf with me. One of the funniest men in Britain along, in my unbiased view, with fellow...

Review: Sizwe Banzi is Dead

For a black person in apartheid South Africa, your passbook was your life. Your name, your life history, where and how you could live – your whole identity was in that one hated document, that...

August in Glaisdale goes to April in Paris

Some people spend their whole year dreaming about their next summer holiday. For Sheila Carter and Mark Stratton it’s more a case of spending a year planning for the extraordinary three weeks of...

Pratfalls and other gags: Whitby comedy

Roger Osborne reports on a riotous month in prospect at Whitby This month your roving High Tide reporter called in to the Port Hole on Skinner Street in Whitby, centre of the global Musicport...

Review: Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias

LA confidential

Making oven clips

Steering through stormy waters

Criminal - hey, but lyrical: Sophie Hannah

An accidental death – and a revival

Jo Caulfield: secret of the sassy quip

Review: Haunting Julia

Chillout time: Solstice Festival

First bite for horrorfest

James Latimer introduces the first Bram Stoker International Film Festival The festival from 16 to 19 October was established in order to provide more opportunities and exposure for filmmakers,...

Britflicks bonanza

If you ever wondered what happened to the British film industry, call in at the Stephen Joseph Theatre this month for a thorough update. Five movies by British directors with homegrown stories...

Much more than window dressing

Janis Bright talks to the organiser of an initiative to smarten up the town centre and showcase both costume and live performances Nothing’s worse for morale than walking past an empty shop....

Obama and me: Niall Stanage interviewed

Journalist Niall Stanage followed Barack Obama’s campaign all the way from hopeful outsider to landslide president.  Roger Osborne spoke to him ahead of his appearance at this month’s...

Coastival reviews

Coastival explorer

Deep in the drive-by: Andy Hylton

Summer at the movies

See the world in shorts: filmmaking in Whitby

Behind the lines: Richard Seymour

Downhill all the way

Edith Sitwell: the face behind Façade

Surf's up!

Shows to get your teeth into