"Puppet plays of every description were presented: legends of Faerie, fables of gothic horror, historical reenactments, farces, displays macabre and erotic. The performing puppets were small human simulacra...carefully bred."

Tulipa Ruiz today in São Paulo 🇧🇷 📸 Jeff Caltabiano

v/a • Candomblé: Sacred Rhythms in Brazil 🇧🇷 June 12 • FLEE flee.bandcamp.com/album/candom...

“Playing against the sky really does improve your volume, and your wind capacity.  I could have just stayed up there forever.” Sonny Rollins (September 9, 1930 - May 25, 2026) 📸 Atsuhiko Kawabata, 1961

The East Lincolnshire Railway closed to passenger traffic in October 1970. And although the section between Louth and Grimsby was kept open for a further ten years for freight traffic, the line closed completely in December 1980 and was lifted shortly afterwards.

NOW YOU’RE TALKING a short break wonder how your breath can last on the town square dondestan gharbzadegi

Remember this... Eire has had gender recognition based on self-ID for over 10 years with no reports of abuse or hatred. The gender critical movement in Eire is minuscule. This is a British problem. A very sick, twisted, British cult problem. It is a disturbing European outlier . This is not normal.

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

The dolmen of Lan-Kerellec in Trébeurden (Côtes-d’Armor) has a capstone on 5 orthostats and is the remains of an allée couverte or passage grave. It was inhabited by beings known as Gorrikets hence its other name of Ty-Lia. #TombTuesday. Card by Neurdein 1905 or earlier.

My favorite story about jazz sax master Sonny Rollins, is that in 1959 he took a sabbatical from the music business, honing his chops by practicing up to 16 hours a day playing alone on the Williamsburg Bridge. RIP to a giant who was also always searching as a musician and artist: loom.ly/hSP333k

RIP jazz great Sonny Rollins; here's a Bob Thompson drawing of Sonny Rollins on his saxophone, c. 1964-65

Happy heavenly birthday to the man behind Hammer’s Van Helsing, Holmes, and of course, the Baron. Who could imagine a world without the irrefutable gentleman of horror that is Mr Peter Cushing? We salute you, sir! 🖤

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Looks like one of those terrifying 2050 #climate projection graphics, but no, that’s a short-term forecast for France until… May 29th.

On this World Dracula Day, let us remember Jeremy Brett and Raúl Juliá in their stage Count costumes, with Edward Gorey-designed scenery

Twice Round The Clock by Billie Houston - country house murder mystery with intriguing slow-acting poison and novel storytelling up until the sub- Edgar Wallace masked hoodlum superspies turn up at the end #BritishLibraryCrimeClassics

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.” Miles Davis was born on May 26th, 1926 in Alton, Illinois.

It’s Shaftbury’s Jams all over again youtu.be/81MWIsj2Kmc?...

So long #SonnyRollins

RIP SONNY ROLLINS let us all take a moment and spin "east broadway rundown" or "our man in jazz." no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Scholars of the Peak The Seawatch Observatory Tapes Morning listening @scholarspeak.bsky.social

Today at 1pm, I’m back on NTS Radio for two hours of bangers & smashes #dontassume #lowlifelovesyou #turnontuneindropoff www.nts.live

News | The Natural History Museum has launched Museums for Nature, a programme partnering with eight museums across the UK to transform their sites and boost biodiversity. https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/posts/natural-history-museum-launches-biodiversity-programme-for-museum-sites/

In NLR 158: The Art of Counter-Remembrance: Marcus Verhagen asks how art can grapple with an event like the Grenfell Tower fire. Contrasting modes of aesthetic response explored in the works of Chris Ofili, Steve McQueen and Forensic Architecture. newleftreview.org/issues/ii158...

David Beardsley, new album magnetic chapel sky spring #microtones #justintonation have a beautiful day davidbeardsley.bandcamp.com/album/magnet...

Goodnight from Sadie Clemens, wondering if she’ll have the dream where she’s a crow with a beakful of corpse-flesh again. Goodnight from Joshua Handford, failing to disguise his voice while phoning in a bomb warning on behalf of the Ghost Preservation Society. Goodnight from Hookland.

No heatwave in Orkney today, but there are some compensations.

An adorable little Puffin posing on the Aberdeenshire cliffs #Sharemondays2026

The Womack Sisters were a real highlight of yesterday's Cross The Tracks festival in South London. Here's their version of their parents' classic hit Teardrops. Watch it in full at youtu.be/veqe4nwtkG8

My favorite thing about Battle of Algiers is how it depicts the role women played in the resistance. Most shocking is the brutality of the French. And highly recommend L'art de perdre ("The Art of Loss") by Alice Zeniter, a novel that tells story via three generations of an Algerian family. #Lit

Hooray, we made the C86 Show. Thanks Dsvid.

I've joined over 300 artists, arts organisations, academics, think tanks and campaigners who have signed this open letter. Add your name. Tell Scotland's political parties and cultural institutions to deliver a basic income for artists: actionnetwork.org/forms/an-ope...

“Sup up your beer and collect your fags - There's a row going on, down near Slough.” Paul Weller: Born on this day in 1958. Photos from the Loch Lomond Festival, Scotland, 21st June 1980

Good evening

Amazing day yesterday paddling the salt flats of Silicon Valley, looking for signs of life in the shadows of the Meta corporate headquarters campus

Happy birthday to Paul Weller. Here are the Style Council performing Speak Like a Child on Dutch TV in 1983. Watch the full episode of Hotel Suburbia, including an interview, at youtu.be/a57mlFQitJ8

‘This new city is being built piece by piece and there are questions about how it will fit into the local neighbourhood.’ Catherine Bennett visits Rome’s first photography museum, housed in a slaughterhouse complex that is being turned into a cultural centre

After starring as Jeanne Dielman, Delphine Seyrig went behind the camera and directed the raw, unfiltered documentary, SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI! (BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP!), playing at Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour next weekend! mspfilm.org/show/il-cine...

Thinking abt the 76 Montreal Olympics rainbow beaver.

cozy science fiction

The YT copy is blocked in the UK but everyone can see it here: archive.org/details/holl...

ENDS TODAY! It's a sitewide book #sale! Get 20% off when you use code Memorial20 when you buy direct from our homepage all holiday weekend! buff.ly/wWjEH72

This is so real it hurts

“The prelapsarian aura that invests the memory of the expedition in popular culture can’t withstand much scrutiny.” Enjoyed reading @calebcrain.bsky.social’s incisive take on Lewis and Clark in @newyorker.com this morning, in an apt along the 1776 route of De Anza: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

After I posted a photo of the outside of James Miller's 1903 Wemyss Bay Station yesterday, a few people mentioned how impressive it is internally, so for those of you who haven't seen it, this is what it looks like on the inside. #glasgow #wemyssbaystation #architecture #scotland

5/25/66: Claude Chabrol's occupation drama Line of Demarcation w/Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin, Stéphane Audran More: Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/75 @trailersfromhell.bsky.social: trailersfromhell.com/line-of-dema...

Hey, I started a site/newsletter to continue the work of my recently-cancelled column. I features a monthly (free) rundown of good experimental releases, plus a bonus (paid-sub) post on a single release from the month. Check out goodexperimentalmusic.com and thanks to everyone who encouraged this!

Hang on, I'll just go find my checkbook real quick.

“Few people can hate so bitterly and so self-righteously as the members of a ruling caste which is being dispossessed.” -T.H. White, The Once & Future King