Curio's Chronicles

Running a daily news website dedicated to the Edinburgh festival is no easy task.

Join the web editor as he uncovers the manic and often madcap world of running Edinburgh's most maverick newsroom.



Sealed with a kiss
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Friday, 31 August 2007

Isle of Skye. A rowing boat bobs in the water, under the watchful shadow of Dunvegan Castle. Rain falls, but apart from that, nothing else stirs.
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Two hours in paralysis
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Saturday, 25 August 2007
I've just sat through the final press screening for the Film Festival. Julie Delpy's Two Days In Paris. I hated it but I seem to be a lone voice on that one.
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Testing times
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Friday, 24 August 2007
I’m tired. Everyone is. A couple of days left and, instead of everyone rushing around squeezing the lost drops of juice from the cultural lemon that is the Edinburgh Festival, most of us are sitting weak of sinew on the edge of our beds, staring at our suitcases, yearning to fill them and get the hell out of here.

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Fuzzy logic
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007
One of the great things about reviewing shows for the Festival is the behind-the-scenes snippets of information that you get in preparation. Perks for the Press as I like to call them. This affords you the journalist a priviledged perch upon which to write and give your public an insight and depth to enhance and makes sense of their own experience. So why am I cacking my breeks with worry and an empty head about tonight's performance of Fuerzabruta?
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I, Curio, quit
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Monday, 20 August 2007
The final week of the Festival and I’m bored of it all! I quit.
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