26th November 2023
Break a leg! Ryan Rutherford does Glasgow proud with new strides in his career. Self-described as a “28-year-old wee Scottish guy from Edinburgh”, Ryan Rutherford graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2018 with an MA in Theatre Studies. Since then he has been working incredibly hard in one of the world’s most competitive industries. ...
26th November 2023
The first rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is that you don’t talk about Fight Club. 24 years on since its UK release, David Fincher’s Fight Club remains one of those films. Divisive, clever and a certified cult classic, Fight Club’s reputation precedes ...
26th November 2023
Francis Bacon was missing from my life when I was young, although I didn’t know it. Francis Bacon, an Irish artist known for his surrealist and disturbing work, is somewhat predictable as the choice for my favourite artist. Growing up, I was always interested in somewhat disturbing ideas and media. Although I was a fairly ...
26th November 2023
In the realm of the silver screen, how we approach loneliness is filtered through our own lens of gender In her essay Females, Andrea Long-Chu makes the bold claim that “everyone is a woman, and everyone hates it.” She doesn’t mean this literally (if that wasn’t clear), but just that maleness is necessarily something unobtainable. ...
26th November 2023
Wes Anderson continues to evolve his style and push the boundaries of cinema in his new short movies on Netflix On the vast Netflix platform, we have the uniqueness of Wes Anderson’s latest offering to his by now, huge audience. It is a trip into the world of Roald Dahl’s short stories, combined with Anderson’s ...
26th November 2023
In her exhibition A Quiet Fire at Tramway, Billie Zangewa invites us into her world through intricate hand-stitched works Displayed just beyond the entrance to A Quiet Fire, an exhibition of Billie Zangewa’s work at Tramway, is a large self-portrait work commissioned by the gallery. Reclined in a pose that recalls the traditional female nude ...
26th November 2023
Margaret and Frances Macdonald’s artistic legacy has been overlooked by the art world for decades Charles Rennie Mackintosh, James Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald, and Francis Macdonald: the group known as the “Glasgow Four” was comprised of these four Glasgow School of Art graduates who met in the mid-1890s. Each became pioneering figures of the Art ...
24th November 2023
A powerful memoir that risks becoming gospel. i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki is marketed as “part memoir, part self-help book.” Its format is unusual: recorded conversations between the author and her psychiatrist constitute the bulk of the text, before an epilogue serves as a personal reflection. In this epilogue, Baek ...
24th November 2023
Is monopolisation worth the cost? It’s no secret among concertgoers that Ticketmaster is known for its high prices, higher fees, and notoriously intense buying experience. When large acts like Taylor Swift or Suga of BTS announce tours, the first reaction from many fans is concern- or even anger- over how much tickets sold by the ...
24th November 2023
This current era of streaming hegemony needs to stop , and it can, if you’re willing to make your life just a little bit more annoying. On 25 October, it was leaked that Spotify are planning to make further cuts to their already stingy payments to artists for streams on the platform. Minimum stream numbers ...
