Ted Bajer

Rodge Glass has been writing in Glasgow for decades. He came to the city as an ambitious young student at Strathclyde University, romanticizing life as a writer. ‘I had hair then,' he remembers fondly. He moved into the West End and was excited that he might see James Kelman or Liz Lochhead pass him on the street. He started working at the Curler's Rest, a local pub and West End institution. When Alasdair Gray walked in, looking for a little peace, a young, starry-eyed Rodge couldn't help but gush about

There’s a prominent theory on urban decay called Broken Window Theory, where signs of crime, like broken windows, lead to ...

Music often inspires movement, but in silent film, it's movement that inspires music. The Hippfest Silent Film Festival opened with this poetic turn of phrase from Igor Shaytanov, a Norwegian representative from Tromsø Film Festival who, surprisingly, had never given a speech in English before. The opening ceremonies of Hippfest would be filled with surprises from Norway.

‘URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED'. A message suddenly pops up in my Govanhill group chat. Normally, it's used for Saturday night hang-outs and finding spare tickets to gigs, but this was different. ‘Please support our mosque!' A friend started sharing long messages that called for a counterprotest outside the Al-Mahdi Islamic Centre on Albert Road.

When you think about folk-punk, you don't normally imagine Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's a rural town where most of the folk are Amish. Visitors often go there looking for handmade goods, and the peace and quiet of a pastoral life. But it's also home to folk punk musicians Apes of the State, who shattered any peace and quiet like a plate glass window, last night at Ivory Blacks.

To say David Breen's exhibition is ‘nostalgic for a time that never existed' would be to use an overworn phrase that describes a certain unnamable beauty. But this is exactly how Breen's method of painting matches its message, and so the phrase is warranted.

The Prodigy began their UK/Ireland tour at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Wednesday, 15 April. The gig opened with Carl Cox who got the vibe going with the big club tunes.

At a time when the Glasgow art scene is in many ways struggling, Iain Henderson is fighting against the odds as a working-class filmmaker. The film industry is notoriously difficult to get a start in, but Henderson has had a burgeoning career ever since he won a BAFTA new talent award for his student film