Dani Garavelli

You can always rely on Michael

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.

This Brecht poem is quoted a lot, often to invoke the indomitable enduring spirit of the arts, keeping on keeping on, a light in the darkness, and so on. But it often feels like the important word is being overlooked, and that's "about"

The Quercia delle Streghe (oak of the witches). It feels weird posting pics like this as the world burns but there must surely still be a place for beautiful things.

There are views around this city that you just presume will always be there.

#Glasgow

Gene review — Britpop may be over but they’re back and fighting fit Twenty years after breaking up, the Nineties stars continued their comeback with a gig at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom that dropped some rare gems into a set gleaming with pop gold

"Rossiter sang the final line, 'For I still have much to offer ...' as if he was beginning to believe it."
I went to see Gene in Glasgow and wrote about it for The Times.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Lol, I'd forgotten that!

Yes, it’s terrific. I reviewed it back when it came out

Great piece about the reprehensible and avoidable hollowing out of Glasgow’s once thriving arts scene

I’ve read Kathleen Jamie’s essay Darkness and Light often, yet every time I come to that phrase “complicit kiss”, which is both a callback and a throw-forward, I get goose bumps because it’s so absolutely perfect.

I had such a great day, Lesley, and I thought of you x

Evening: Ponte al Mare, Pisa by Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Within the surface of the fleeting river/The wrinkled image of the city lay.”

Glasgow audience ‘blown away’ as Byrne pays tribute to his roots REVIEW: Music

Caught David Byrne in Glasgow last night

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2591720...

The result is an album of great beauty which, perhaps preeminently in Wasylyk’s work, expresses the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit.” Cracking piece about love and light and @andrewwasylyk.bsky.social’s gorgeous new album, Irreparable Parables. Wish I could see him this time round.

"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity."

Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

‘A space of their own’: how cancer centres designed by top architects can offer hope Exhibition at the V&A Dundee celebrates Maggie’s Centres created by Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and others

The story of how Maggie’s Centres came into being is so inspiring, and celebrated at the @vadundee.bsky.social in a new exhibition

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Mitski - If I Leave (Official Video) YouTube video by MitskiVEVO

*Love* the new Mitski album, the claustrophobia of it, the gothic touches, the way In a Lake shifts so you lose yourself first in the distortion of water, then in the noises of a big city, the plethora of clever lines. Here's If I Leave, but it's all great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=83yY...

The Scottish avalanche forecasters – photo essay Photographer Murdo MacLeod patrols the snow with members of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service, which has for several decades published a vital daily avalanche forecast for mountain areas

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

One constant in this moment for Iran is that @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social is a must read. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

Yeah they were very, very expensive

I think they are all really cool, I’d love to see more men here sporting natty footwear

And you’re never fully dressed without a hat (starting a campaign to bring back the fedora)

Italy: where the men’s shoes ought to be displayed in an art gallery.

So delighted to be on the longlist for the @womensprize.bsky.social.

Whuppity Scoorie: the Scottish spring ritual bringing a town together Children racing round a church tower at Lanark Cross reflects a renewed sense of community and folklore in unsettled times

Your daily order of JOY

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It's actually Italy, no idea why they are all French - another quirk of the place. But thank you.

We had some tinsel I missed in the clear up along a curtain rail for a while.

Yes, I will ask about them eventually. There are three sets. They appear to be seals of French kings, important families and towns.

See this is a scenario I feel Italian Duolingo with its obsession with ghosts has totally prepared me for. “La mia stanza è molto spaventosa.”

Man, I was just about to put the light out and now I never will

Not that I’ve found so far, but there is also this