When I started this newsletter, we wrote an article asking where Kendrick Lamarhad been. Well, 1855 days since his highly critically acclaimed album DAMN Kendrick Lamar returned with the double-disc album Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers. The project is one of his best yet. It also stood up to the hype that surround the project being released. Mr. Morale and The Big Steppers is such a great album because when you listen to it, it’s hard to say whether it sounds like a therapy session or theatre or dramatic play.

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Louis Daguerre, a French inventor born in 1787 in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d’Oise, France, is widely acknowledged today as the father of modern photography. Building on the work of Nicéphore Niépce, with whom he established a brief partnership in 1829, he created a new form of visual communication, the first commercially viable photographic process: the daguerreotype. After Niépce’s death in 1833, Daguerre, who had a background in theater design, architecture, and panoramic painting, continued to experiment until he eventually found a way to improve the technique, reducing the exposure time from several hours (sometimes days) to only 20 or 30 minutes.

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I was in the Surgeon’s Hall museum on Saturday (worth the entrance price if you’re not squeamish about body parts in jars) when some friends, visiting Edinburgh for a wedding, messaged me asking for pub recommendations in the centre of town. They’d already ticked off my suggestions. So by the time I got out of the museum and checked my phone, they’d taken matters into their own hands. I found them settled in at Deacon Brodies Tavern.