20th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan brings you the highlights of what’s happening in the city. ART THE TOOTH OF HISTORY | CCA | UNTIL DECEMBER 23 | FREE 32 photographic prints and accompanying paintings depicting lockdown life in Glasgow through the metaphor of the bloodstream BOOKS CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS EVENTS : ALYCIA PIRMOHAMED, MAISIE CHAN | NOVEMBER 21, ...
13th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing sits down with Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK finalist Ella Vaday, and Anna Bradford of the Glasgow Uni Boob Team, to discuss their campaigns on breast cancer awareness. “I’m going to do the same makeup that I’ve got on so we can be twins”. Ella Vaday is putting her mum, Donna, ...
11th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing reviews the award-winning musical The Book of Mormon as it makes its rescheduled debut in Glasgow. “Jesus lived here, in the USA”, supposedly. It’s the kind of writing that should be so ridiculous, so satirical, as to bear little resemblance to reality. But what The Book of Mormon does so well ...
9th November 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan reviews the final show of the Sugababes’ UK tour. It was an eclectic assortment of us filing into the O2 Academy on a Monday night. Lots of forty somethings were reliving their glory days, sporting semi glamorous attire scrambled together after a Monday slog in the office. But the Sugababes are a ...
26th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan heads down to the CCA for a night of queer experimental theatre, and interviews its administrative director. “This week he moppin’ floors, next week it’s the fries”. “That bitch knew her cheeses”. Both lines emanate from the theatre on display at the CCA on Wednesday 19 October. This is par the course ...
19th October 2022
In light of recent anti-monarchy protest arrests, The Glasgow Guardian scrutinises ever-growing police powers in the UK. Mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II, much of the country contemplated her personal legacy with fondness and poignancy. It was clear a connection had been severed; a life so many treasured taken away, just like that. But ...
17th October 2022
Glasgow City Council has proposed selling the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in order to finance an equal pay dispute. Councillors have approved a sale-and-leaseback arrangement with council-owned property firm City Property Glasgow Investments LLP for a number of buildings worth up to £200m. Kelvingrove Art Gallery, the City Chambers, Gallery of Modern Art, and ...
17th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing argues that boundaries in relationships help them to thrive. As an annoying 14-year-old (and net burden on society) I used to declare ad nauseum that “sharing is caring”. I have since dissociated from being that person, such is the perpetual reinvention-of-the-self necessitated by late-teen development, and the phrase now appears, to ...
12th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan brings you the highlights of what’s happening in the city. ART CHARLIE HAMMOND: WORKAROUND | HUNTERIAN | UNTIL OCTOBER 16 | FREE Solo exhibition for the Glasgow-based artist, exploring the relationship between art and labour MAJD ABDEL HAMID: MUSCLE MEMORY | CCA | UNTIL NOVEMBER 5 | FREE Embroidered work based on ...
11th October 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan brings you the highlights of Glasgow’s music scene. BILLY IDOL | OVO HYDRO | OCTOBER 21ST | FROM £88.00 Punk rock but make it borderline geriatric, Billy Idol is still going strong and performing at the Hydro. ELLA HENDERSON | SWG3 | OCTOBER 17TH | FROM £94.00 Ella competed on the X ...
