Things to do

Merry fun-makers of Scotland – you're positively drowning in options this week. We've got Glasgow Film Festival, Vampire Weekend's Chis Baio gone solo, a yoga festival and a jubilee in honour of LGBT History Month. Go on, you've got gallivanting to do! Read more »

So you've slept off your batter-based food coma and are heading full throttle and bleary-eyed into Valentine's mania. What to do? Distract yourself entirely with spoon carving, David Bowie, a love festival at Summerhall and a Green festival at SWG3 Read more »

It's Valentine's Day, kids! And even the cynics can find something with a Sham Bodie special or Casablanca, True Romance and Natural Born Killers screenings. Lost that loving feeling? Catch gigs from Foals, MONEY and Gein's Family Giftshop instead. Read more »

Whether you're seeking date ideas, anti-Valentine's events or general distractions from the fact it's the most sickly day of the year, Valentine's weekend 2016 happens to be jammy-dodger packed with wicked events from Edinburgh to Glasgow... Read more »

Celebrate Chinese New Year while also marking a landmark 30 years of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Arts, Manchester's Queer Contact Festival returns for its eighth bash, plus gigs from Loyle Carner and Youth Lagoon. Read more »

We're pretty much equidistant between emancipation from Dry January and that ever polarising Valentine's day; now's your opportunity to gulp craft beer with Brooklyn Brewery, shimmy to Fleetwood Mac belters and celebrate the hilarious retreat of Roosh V. Read more »