twenty-four hour snapshot

By Tara Isabella Burton There are arts festivals, and then there is the Edinburgh Fringe. Gleefully chaotic, gargantuan in scale, and intensely gripping, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival runs for three weeks each August. Since 1947, the festival has been transforming Scotland's ancient capital into the worldwide center of culture, as nearly every arts professional in the UK (and a good proportion worldwide) decamps north for the summer. The city's population quadruples in size as actors, comics, musicians, journalists, and ordinary paying punters descend upon the labyrinthine streets of Edinburgh's...


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