Netflix’s Desta: The Memories Between elevates the platform’s game offerings

Screenshot from Desta: The Memories Between featuring a square game field littered with oil drums, benches, and screens and populated with three humans who are throwing rubber balls at one another.

The quality of Netflix games has gone from simple, cotton candy-like fluff suitable for short bursts in a waiting room to bespoke, narrative experiences that require hours of strategic thinking. Desta: The Memories Between is […]

This Is Memorial Device review – memories of fictional indie heroes burn brightly | Edinburgh festival 2022

Thrilled even when bewildered … This Is Memorial Device.

A few years ago, the director Stewart Laing invented a character called Paul Bright. He was a Glasgow performance artist who had staged an epic adaptation of Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg […]

‘I was overwhelmed with emotion’: readers on their memories of seeing Joni Mitchell live | Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell at the RDS in Dublin in early 1983.

‘I cheered and someone glared at me for the noise’ It was my first concert, at the RDS Main Hall in Dublin in early 1983. I’d recently bought her then-new LP Wild Things Run Fast. […]