Edinburgh today: Remembrance Garden opens and Marika Hackman sings It's Monday. Again. Edinburgh South West MP Alistair Darling is to stand down at the next General Election. In an interview with the Financial Times he said he was frustrated the Labour Party had not capitalised on their success in the referendum. This weekend Lothians MSP Kezia Dugdale also announced that she's to stand as Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. News, that 'Scotland's largest graffiti art project' got underway at the weekend as part of the New Waverley project on Market Street also garnered a lot of interest online in the last 24 hours. The BBC have some early photos. Coming up today in Edinburgh The Princes Street Remembrance Garden is set to open at 11am with a special service this morning. Having been closed for refurbishment for a few days, Rose Street's Element re-opens today. That's not all that's happening on the food front today. Scran Salon, a regular gathering of Edinburgh folk interested in Food, is meeting at The Apiary tonight at 9pm. You can bag a free ticket from this Eventbrite page. Also, city foodies will want to keep an eye on the Angels with Bagpipes Twitter account. Today, they're going to release tickets for the latest installment of their pop-up Hidden Wing restaurant. Local author, Janice Cairns will be in Portobello Library to talk about her first book Forgiving Nancy, a love story set in Edinburgh in the 1980's. Janice will read from Forgiving Nancy and talk about the experience of having her debut novel published. H. Grimace who are playing at Bannerman's Bar tonight. Here's their really rather nice video: H.Grimace 'Lands of Gold and Green' from ashley michael briggs on Vimeo. It's a close run thing, but gig of the day today for one day only is probably Marika Hackman, who's playing at Electric Circus. You can send us a photo or video direct using a our Edinburgh app, or you can email us.