Image: Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery Tucked away in the Stanley and Audrey Burton gallery is a small yet extensive exhibition of Alfred Drury’s life works. An influential architectural sculptor of the Victorian and Edwardian […]
Ballet | Cleopatra – enjoyable, but not quite feminist enough
Image: Bill Cooper Northern Ballet have revived their 2011 production of Cleopatra for what their Artistic Director, David Nixon, calls ‘a fresh look’. Cleopatra sees the second collaboration by David Nixon and composer Claud-Michel Schonberg […]
Film | Bullet – not worth the effort it takes to watch
Image: Giant Ape Media If you want to spend an hour and a quarter watching insultingly unrealistic characters spouting corny one-liners in improbable scenarios, then watch Bullet. Among mostly terrible acting, confusing and nauseating editing […]
Theatre | Of Mice and Men – the American masterpiece comes to the WYP
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse With a jarringly off-key wail, Heather Christian ushered in the Mark Rosenblatt era at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, on a night when the American dream flickered and then died an undignified […]
Art | The Jimi Hendrix Experience – suitably psychedelic photographs
Image: Gered Mankowitz In 1967, in the heady throes of rock and roll, photographer Gered Mankowitz took pictures of Jimi Hendrix. Captured just three years before the musician’s untimely death, the photographs represent the vibrancy […]
Film | The Grand Budapest Hotel – a more melancholy Wes Anderson
Image: Fox Searchlight Pictures It is a criticism oft levelled against Wes Anderson that his films lack substance, forfeiting deeper meaning for stylistic choices and ultimately all blending into one. His films are not ‘revolutionary’, […]
Features | Five reasons graduation isn't that bad
Graduation is a mere four months away. As the days and nights roll by in a haze of study sessions, coffee breaks and hangovers, July comes like a mirage emerging from the Gobi desert. Fear […]
Music | Eagulls live
Eagulls Brudenell Social Club 3/5 If you’re aware of Leeds’ current biggest thing, Eagulls, then it won’t surprise you that at tonight’s show there were five inflatable penises and four inflatable sex dolls. It’s not […]
Comment | Too quick to judge Woody Allen
In an open letter to the New York Times, Dylan Farrow recently spoke openly and harrowingly about her alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Woody Allen. Farrow believes that the continued celebration […]
Comedy | Win tickets to see Russell Howard live
Comedian Russell Howard will be coming to Leeds this weekend, as part of his new tour Wonderbox. Beginning last month, the tour will see him travelling around the UK, USA and Australia, including four consecutive nights […]
Clubs | Weekly Chart
Photo: Factmag This week our picks of the bunch take us from Chicago to Paris, this should keep you on your feet this weekend. Chez Damier – Forever Monna (Oracy Edit) [Mojuba] Re-issue of […]
Comment | Tony Benn dies – now our generation must carry the gauntlet
Tony Benn’s personal impact has been enormous. My parents first met at a talk he gave at the University of London Union. As children, my sisters and I were taken to see him speak on […]