Image: lightnightleeds.co.uk I’ve been a fan of dance ever since I was a little girl, admiring the elegance, the flaw, the whole beauty of a performer. When I heard of the Digital Narcissus performance showing […]
Music | In The Middle with Pallbearer
It’s a mild, quiet Sunday in Hyde Park, the perfect opportunity for some Funeral Doom from the aptly named 4 piece Pallbearer to rain down from the PAs of The Brudenell. I meet with Brett […]
Food | Perfect Recipes for the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
Macmillan Coffee Mornings are a great way to get friends and family over for tea and cake, and raise a bit of money for a good cause while you’re at it. So, why not get […]
Theatre | A Streetcar Named Desire – Gillian Anderson portrays Blanche in all the right ways
Image: National Theatre Benedict Andrews recently brought Tennessee Williams’ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ to the Young Vic theatre in London for what truly was the most brilliantly uncomfortable piece of theatre I have seen to […]
Film | Magic in the Moonlight – forgettable, unadventurous and fomulaic
Image: Perdido Productions For me, Magic in the Moonlight seems less a film and more a feature-length TV drama episode. I would like to assure you I am no expert on the Woody Allen film […]
Music | Slum Village @ Belgrave Music Hall 29/09
Dilla, Dilla, Dilla, the word on everyone’s lips, hats and hoodies. Eight years have passed since a heart attack robbed Slum Village (and the world) of arguably the greatest hip-hop producer of all time, James […]
The illusion of perfection
The author Bret Easton Ellis puts it aptly I think, when he says we are ‘Generation Wuss’. We twenty-somethings want to achieve. We want to be the best. But how many of us are all […]
Music | Stephen O’Malley @ Brudenell Social Club 28/09
As I walked to the Brudenell Social Club I was almost dreading the gig. For whatever reason that day had proved to be particularly draining and I didn’t believe an hour or so of watching […]
Food | Leeds’ Top 5 Hangover Food Hotspots
#1. The Greasy Pig - Hyde Park Veteran Hyde Park residents will know this place as a beacon of hope when you’re bleary eyed and empty stomached the morning after the night before. This place […]
The African Ebola plight – a Transatlantic cause for concern?
Ebola has reached America. This does sound extremely disconcerting but it’s important to look at the bigger issues surrounding the incident and get to the facts. Although the case in the USA has been in […]
Why We Call Holland The Netherlands
Loren Snel is a Dutch exchange student in Linguistics, Literature and Journalism. She has come to Leeds to explore the UK’s promising (media) landscape but its rolling hills and absence of tulips left her culture […]
Society Profile: Netball
Name: University Netball About: Netball has around 120 members overall. Every Wednesday, the teams travel to different cities to play matches against other Universities, as part of the Nothern BUCs league. Netball has six teams […]