Bean cakes, or ‘Akara’, are a Nigerian snack or breakfast food, and the perfect complement to your morning coffee. Ingredients 125g bean flour 250ml water 1 stock cube ¼ red onion 2 tbsps of salt 1 […]
Interview with Elorm Haligah
Elorm Haligah talks to The Gryphon about employment inequality, the importance of volunteering, and being president of Nottingham ACS! When I manage to pin Elorm Haligah down for a chat, he is just about to […]
EKKO Festival Review DAY 1
A bitterly cold Friday evening last week set the scene for the opening of Bergen’s very own EKKO fest, now in its 11th year. EKKO is held at Østre – “a house for sound-art and […]
Crocodiles @ Brudenell Social Club 08/10
The sight of a half empty Brudenell is enough to make the most swaggering of indie rockers quake in their Chelsea boots. Crocodiles, however, seem seasoned enough to take this in their stride but fail […]
Food | Belgrave Street Feast is still the edgiest way to cause a coronary
Belgrave Music Hall is certainly one of the best things to come to Leeds in the last year. With its eclectic live music selection, slightly overpriced yet insufferably trendy craft beers and a beer garden […]
Film | The Rewrite – Is Hugh Grant back on form?
It’s romcom 101: Hugh Grant as a washed-up, Oscar-winning scriptwriter who finds himself teaching university students in the unknown town of Binghampton after various failed attempts to restart his career. In his fourth collaboration with […]
Rewilding Britain: hungry for a home
The idea of wolves wandering a windswept landscape is one straight out of a George. R. R. Martin novel, an image now synonymous with the northern reaches of Westeros and the Starks of Winterfell. However, […]
New European era brings familiar scenes for Munster
The European Champions Cup may be an entirely new competition, but for Munster it must have seemed like déjà vu. The first game of the new completion for the Irish province ended as countless European matches had […]
Tuition fees: Investment in future or expensive library pass?
I pay £42 for every contact hour I have- Engineers pay only £18. Today, my two-hour lecture cost me £95, while their 5-hour day cost them £90. Who will earn more on graduating? As a History […]
A Reflection on Windows
Microsoft Windows, a name that has become synonymous with personal computing around the world. With features such as Paint, the Start Menu and Solitaire, even the most technophobic members of society recognise its name. With […]
Postcard from Abroad – Université Jean Moulin III Lyon
Amelia is a third year English Literature and French student currently on exchange at Université Jean Moulin Lyon III. She desperately misses Leeds and being able to go to the shops on Sundays. So far her […]
Yob @ Brudenell Social Club 07/09
Yob’s initial approach to their set seemed to focus on differentiating themselves from Pallbearer and the supporting act, Bong Cauldron, who sounded “exactly what you’d expect a band called Bong Cauldron to sound like” according […]