22 SEP–20 OCT YOU’VE GOT 29 DAYS TO LIVE! If you think you might be starting to feel the effects of Seasonal Affective Disorder, you could try taking vitamin D supplements. Though we’d prescribe, instead, a healthy dose of getting out of the house. We whittled down a long list of events to bring you just 30 unmissable cultural highlights stretching from late September to the beginning of December. Squeeze in all 30, and you’ll be grinning until the spring. More minimally, don’t miss Bourgeois and Maurice, Bon Iver and David Shrigley’s opera Pass the Spoonto name but three events. We’re all in favour of cosiness, but you shouldn’t resign yourself to blankets and box-sets just yet.

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ARCHIVE TRAILS Aileen Campbell, Alasdair Roberts and Drew Wright investigate the School of Scottish Studies Archives. 30

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FOOD AND DRINK Glasgow’s latest African dining establishment Calabash is reviewed, as well as all the recent openings in both cities. 61

Autumn preview All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey, but worry not the autumnal months arrive with an abundance of new cultural pleasures, including Liz Lochhead’s Edwin Morgan production, stand-up comedy from Stephen Merchant and the overdue return of The Rapture. Our in-depth preview of all these events and more starts on page 15.

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