This year’s Leeds International Film Festival screened a series of seven short films by French directors entitled French Connections. Encapsulating the quirky French cinematic style, the short films are at once witty and soulful, commenting […]
Comment: Why Are All Christmas Films Rubbish?
Is it just me, or are all Christmas films complete rubbish? Okay, so it probably is just me, but nevertheless I’ll bah humbug my way through this. Let me ask you a question: what do […]
BUCS Results Round-Up
Badminton 2nds (M) 8 – 0 Sheffield Hallam 2nds Basketball 1sts (W) 33-50 Bangor University 1sts Basketball 2nds (M) 70-59 Leeds Beckett 3rds Basketball 3rds (M) 48-63 Sunderland 3rds Fencing 1sts (M) 135 – […]
Shot in The Arm for British Sport
THE Chancellor’s Autumn Statement may have revealed future hardship for students and recent graduates, but for sport throughout Britain, it’s a different story. UK Sport, the UK’s largest sports charity which distributes public money to elite […]
Comedy: Leeds Tealights – Laughter Fills The Library
Returning from an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Leeds Tealights were back again on home soil. Expectations were high for the comedy sketch group which has seen the returning Stephen Rainbird teaming up […]
Comedy: How to describe Figs In Wigs…
London-based performance group Figs in Wigs are not easy to describe. Their website offers some help, suggesting you imagine ‘Kraftwerk meets Chicks on Speed at a fruit stall…and you‘re nowhere close’. However, their latest offering […]
First ‘Day-night’ Test is a Roaring Success
AUSTRALIA have made cricketing history once again in the past week by winning the first ever day-night test match against local rivals New Zealand in Adelaide. In what turned out to be a low-scoring affair, the […]
Master of None: Refreshing and realistic comedy
I watched the entire first season of Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None’ in one sitting. Was this because it amounted to an overall five hours? Was this because I am a terrible person with no […]
Throw Away The Rulebook
It’s that time of year again; out of the depths of December come the celebratory drinks invites, work parties and Christmas balls. With festive cheer aplenty and sub-zero, you must fight the urge to stay […]
What Does it Mean to be ‘Green’?
Following the Climate Change march this weekend in Leeds town centre and this week’s COP21 talks in Paris of leaders from around the world about global warming, The Gryphon explores the issue of climate change, […]
LRFS Meet the Directors
In the run up to the Leeds RAG fashion show on the 11th February, we catch up with the show’s directors Esther Eldridge and Rachel Archer on how they’re hoping to make this year the […]
Christmas cupcakes with snow meringue icing
Lighter than a proper Christmas cake, but just as fruity and alcohol-sodden. Don’t be put off by the amount of ingredients, you can always swap the nuts or dried fruit for others you prefer […]