13th October 2023
Oran Mór is the place to see a play, have a pie and a pint. Clare Roberts tells us which plays to look forward to this season. It’s pumpkin spice latte season, which also means the Autumn season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has begun. For an hour, Monday to Saturday ...
13th October 2023
Nationalism, patriotism and cultural identity all come together in film It’s quite possibly a contender for the understatement of the century to say that cinema is important to us. A revolutionary idea, I know, but it’s true. Films are important for our upbringing and our culture. A time-honoured tradition is watching your dad’s favourite film ...
13th October 2023
Allysa Olis explores Fleabag as the perfect theatrical display for our generation looking forward. “It’ll pass.” Words that were not a part of the original iteration of the one woman show, Fleabag – by Phoebe-Waller Bridge – but solidified its place in the minds of media consumers. The Amazon Television series, adapted from a theatre production, ...
13th October 2023
Will the use of AI redefine what we class as art? Is it already too late? The world of art and entertainment is on the brink of a transformation. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to permeate the film and television industry, raising vital queries regarding the intersection of technology and the arts. ...
13th October 2023
Emilija Morrison sits down and chats to Glasgow’s own Gary Hewitt about his latest film, The Defender There’s nothing quite as marvellous as seeing Scotland on the big screen. Whether it’s a few seconds in a big budget Hollywood blockbuster or an entire indie film set in Glasgow or Edinburgh, it is a feeling that ...
12th October 2023
From Austen to Calvino; essential works of fiction about fiction. Generally one of the more challenging concepts in contemporary literary theory, metafiction is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as “fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions.” It is, at ...
11th October 2023
Author David Grann talks to the Glasgow Guardian about his latest book, The Wager. After completing Killers of the Flower Moon — which has been adapted by Martin Scorsese, and is coming out later this month — David Grann knew he wanted to write about mutiny. It was whilst exploring this theme that he came ...
11th October 2023
A reading of the controversial novel A Little Life. CW: Rape, Paedophilia, Self-Harm A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara chronicles the life of Jude St. Francis — whose past is shrouded in mystery — and his college friends Malcolm, Willem and Jean-Baptiste (aka JB). The story begins with the four of them plunging into New ...
11th October 2023
An analysis and history of an interconnected space: popular music and its relationship to the art school. Kim Gordon, a founding member of Sonic Youth and a graduate of the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California, once supposedly remarked that “art obsession is ideology … ideology can be made sexy, but ...
10th October 2023
A discussion of what it means to be a fan, and the inherent sexism present in the media. The present era of musical culture is punctuated by the concept of fandoms. Certain individuals can become so captivated by a particular artist or subject that their knowledge and research exists lightyears ahead of music journalists. Die ...
