Public libraries are pretty punk. They are non-commercial, non-clinical third spaces where anyone can go to warm up, use the wifi, go to the bathroom, and have untapped access to a world of books – all for free, says @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Theatre review: Alan Ayckbourn’s mid-1980s play still has so much to tell us, says Herald critic @neilcooper.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Review: '10cc produced music peerlessly played by consummate musicians and the harmonies were creamy but it was also a little, whisper it, dull,' says @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Christopher Macarthur-Brown has been named Britain's Next Big Thing in comedy. Exclusive by @msashleydavies.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
In the wake of the Bafta controversy, I Swear has now landed on Netflix with predictable fanfare - so is it worth watching? @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Fair to say, we could all do with a laugh, right now. So this year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival couldn’t be better timed. Here's @teddyjamieson.bsky.social with 10 to see
This Middle East crisis shows once again why we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, says @becmcq.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Review: California Schemin' - "Out of all James McAvoy's famous friends who could appear in the film, surely there was someone better and less off-putting than James Corden?" @heraldscotland.bsky.social @derekmcarthur.bsky.social
'If Scotland had ever produced the Who', Roger Daltrey declared, 'we’d have been called the Fratellis!' @heraldscotland.bsky.social
It's 30 years since Siobhan Redmond last shoved a trolley up Air Scotia’s aisle at 40,000 feet. “In the advent of the intervening years, they’ve made The High Life look like cinema verite,” she says. @paulenglishwords.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @siobhanredmond.bsky.social
Matilda review: There are some wonderfully realised set-pieces that stem from the audaciously playful book and the lyrical cheek of Tim Minchin’s showtunes. @neilcooper.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
James Watt and Brewdog represent the worst excesses of millennial hustle culture and performative rebellion. The entire brand is dated and should be left in 2007, where it belongs, says @marissamacwhirter.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social #brewdog
Review: Odd, downbeat, occasionally funny and often moving this first feature from New York-based Edinburgher Seàn Dunn has a top flight Scottish cast led by Peter Mullan and Gayle Rankin and fast-rising newcomer Lewis MacDougall @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Glasgow is becoming impossible for artists to live and work in. Soon it will be as bad as Edinburgh, for Christ's sake!
REVIEW: This is a wild two hours of music and patter. A variety of objects are thrown onto the stage, including a Saltire, a T-shirt with the legend Drogheda Diana and a bra (which inevitably CMAT puts on). @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @cmatbaby.bsky.social
A Glasgow arts centre is facing turmoil as its cultural tenants report eviction notices and steep rent hikes, raising fresh questions over how the city values its independent creative community. @neilcooper.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
'The vehemence with which everyone joins in on the lyrics of It’s Not Fair suggests that premature ejaculation may be a bigger problem than is sometimes imagined' @teddyjamieson.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social @thelilyallen.bsky.social
Melbourne author Laura McCluskey has always felt her Scottish roots tugging at her. Even so, you would never guess that this book was written half a world away. @lauramccluskey.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Aonghas MacNeacail is quite literally a man who travels with a song in his heart. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
When I was growing up, Big John was often out and about in our local community
He always seemed to make time to engage gently and kindly with exuberant fans.
More than once he made my day by giving a cheery nod and a few words when squeals of 'Big John!' filled the air when me and my pals saw him.
Solvej Balle's books capture the soul of our times, just as TS Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, or Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, captured the soul of the early 20th century, says @neilmackay.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social
The new Morrissey album is a reminder that no one writes like him or sings like him or hates like him or loves like him: we still need him @heraldscotland.bsky.social @brianjaffa.bsky.social #morrissey
How Edinburgh's The Exploited invented hardcore punk @heraldscotland.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social
Review: George Costigan and Matthew Kelly embody Vladimir and Estragon in Beckett’s mould breaking piece of mid 20th century existential vaudeville with a tragicomic rapport that comes through a lifetime of shared experience. @heraldscotland.bsky.social @neilcooper.bsky.social
Glasgow Film Festival review: The film has a great cast, plenty of that winning, Jarmuschian oddness which is such a key ingredient of his films, and (it goes without saying) peerless music choices. But there’s an aimlessness to it @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Classic Scottish albums: Idlewild: The story of One Hundred Broken Windows @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Trainspotting at 30: It’s not tough to love Danny Boyle’s film. Yes, it creaks a bit. Who doesn’t? But it feels almost as fresh and audacious now as it did when it blew a hole in the fortress wall and allowed a horde of Caledonian talent through the breach. @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Glasgow Film Festival review: Rose of Nevada @heraldscotland.bsky.social @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social @glasgowfilmfest.bsky.social
