Review: Audience rocking in aisles as Mamma Mia! hits HMT stage
Mamma Mia! Is one of those big shows the word phenomenon is attached to so often you could think it’s part of the title.
Scott Begbie: As we wait for the AWPR let’s make sure we treat new roads with respect
It’s now at the point of just being a huge tease, this whole city bypass malarkey.
Man tells of 10 hour wait in hospital after KFC chicken bone stuck in his throat
A man has spoken about his traumatic experience of spending almost 10 hours in hospital waiting for treatment after getting a bone lodged in his throat.
Appeal to help feed animals at North-east animal sanctuary
An animal sanctuary, which has taken in hundreds of vulnerable creatures, has issued a renewed appeal for donations.
Review: The Jungle Bunch (U)
A maniacal koala bear with delusions of grandeur threatens the safety of creatures great and small in The Jungle Bunch.
Review: mother! (18)
The lower-case lettering and exclamation point of Darren Aronofsky’s twisted psychological thriller reflect the Oscar-nominated writer-director’s nightmarish vision: intriguing, pretentious, confusing and ultimately pointless.
Review: American Assassin (18)
You can’t always exorcise the ghosts of the past as one tormented young man discovers in Michael Cuesta’s testosterone-fuelled action thriller, based on the novel by Vince Flynn.
Stereophonics announce Aberdeen gig as part Scream Above The Sounds tour
Legendary Welsh rockers Stereophonics are set to make a blistering return to Aberdeen.
Review: Warm, moving and funny tale of washhouse women a joy to watch
Thirty years on and The Steamie still fills theatres.
Scott Begbie: Dolphin attractions could be start of more for North-east
Five years ago, if anyone had asked me where to see dolphins in Scotland, I’d have packed them off to the Moray Firth.
Call the Midwife star Laura Main to star in smash hit Shrek musical at HMT
Never mind the midwife ... call the monster, as Aberdeen’s homegrown acting star Laura Main returns to the Granite City in Shrek The Musical.
In pictures: Motorsports in the North-east
We’ve dug through our archives and found these incredible pictures of Motorsport events taking place across the North-east.
In Pictures: Oldmeldrum
We’ve dug through our archives and found these incredible pictures of Oldmeldrum through the years.
Scott Begbie: Negative Nellies need to bridge gap over views on Queensferry Crossing
Just when I thought the “Scottish cringe” couldn’t get any worse it turned up last week, writ large.
Joe Pasquale to star as Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em at Aberdeen’s HMT
Oooh Betty ... comedy legend Frank Spencer is heading for Aberdeen.
John Reynolds: EU negotiators winning media battle as wrangle over finance trundles on
I was happily sat watching the news on television about the latest on Brexit when on to the screen came former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who immediately gave a big hug to Jean Claude Juncker, the EU bureaucrat many Brits hate.
Review: Bhan Thai, Rose Street, Aberdeen
Once upon a time going out for a birthday meal with my urchin involved somewhere with a good kids’ menu, bottomless softies and a caterpillar chocolate cake with candles presented by singing staff.
Review: The Limehouse Golem (15)
During an ominous lull in Juan Carlos Medina’s macabre murder mystery set on the fog-choked streets of Victorian London almost a decade before Jack The Ripper ran amok, a stage actor draws parallels between his craft and human nature.
Review: Patti Cake (15)
Inspired by writer-director Geremy Jasper’s efforts to break into the New York music scene, Patti Cake is a crowd-pleasing underdog story, which wears its heart on its sleeve.
In Pictures: Braemar Gathering
What’s your favourite memory of the Braemar Highland Games?
In Pictures: Turriff
We’ve dug through our archives and found these incredible pictures of Turriff through the years.
Scott Begbie: Hopefully I’ll have no limp reasons not to toe the line when city’s race returns
I’m not big on having regrets in life – it’s too short for moping around thinking “if only I had ...”.
Review: Detroit (15)
In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to collect the Academy Award statuette as Best Director for harrowing wartime thriller The Hurt Locker.
Review: Logan Lucky (12A)
Crime still pays for Oscar-winning film-maker Steven Soderbergh, director of Ocean’s Eleven and its sequels, in a criminally entertaining caper, which sacrifices plausibility for quirky characters and generous belly laughs.
Review: American Made (15)
Based on a true story of outlandish lies, American Made reunites director Doug Liman and leading man Tom Cruise after their successful collaboration on the sci-fi thriller Edge Of Tomorrow.
Review: Taste of China, Newtonhill
Double bonus is dodging a shopping trip to town, then having your dinner brought home to you.
In Pictures: The Lonach Gathering
What’s your favourite memory of the Lonach Gathering?
Review: Glorious comedy was simply exuberant fun
Take a theatre company celebrating its 65th anniversary, add a show in its 83rd year and what do you get?
In Pictures: Slains Castle
We’ve taken a look through our archives and found these historic pictures of Slains Castle.
Scott Begbie: Let’s Celebrate Aberdeen and parade good points to hush negative voices
If moaning was a sport, some people in Aberdeen would be beating world records and winning Olympic gold medals.