President: Mary Burrows Membership: £5/ year Membership discounts: 10-20 percent off at Occasions fancy dress shop; free miso soup when you buy sushi at Sesame in the Union; discounted drinks and tickets to society events Regular meetings: Thursdays 1-3pm; […]
Netball round up – 24/10/12
1sts vs. Newcastle 1sts: 24-36 After a well fought, well deserved game against Manchester last week, the firsts had plenty of confidence travelling to Newcastle for the 2nd match of the season. With Newcastle […]
Halloween Film Special | Paranormal Activity 4
2/5 stars Picking up from where Paranormal Activity 3 left off, it helps to know the background behind this series. That said, if you’re someone who just wants to see a scary film, plot plays […]
I got 99 problems but a Snitch ain’t one
On a chilly autumnal afternoon in Hyde Park, magic was in the air as the Leeds University Quidditch and Harry Potter Society met to practise and to prove you don’t have to be a […]
The Growing Cost of Football
After the BBC’s recent ‘Price of Football’ survey, LS Sport‘s Euan Cunningham shares his thoughts… About a year ago I was travelling back from a match. The team I have a season ticket with had […]
Art | Rebecca Lowe
3/5 stars The Bowery rightly deserves the title of Headingley’s ‘hidden creative gem’. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve only ever been to Headingley as part of an Otley run in the past, and on my […]
Opera | The Makropulos Case
4/5 stars To quote Gavin Plumley from the programme, ‘on paper, protracted legal cases are hardly the stuff of great drama.’ Indeed, Janacek’s decision to adapt Capeks 1922 play The Makropulos Case into an opera […]
Met Edge Uni in tight clash
This week the 2nd Netball hosted a powerful Leeds Met side in the Gryphons centre. The match started evenly enough. Both teams breaking through each other’s midfield defence and gaining every opportunity to score the […]
A Closer Look At… Psycho
Psycho ranks highly on many Top Halloween Film lists. Considered to be Hitchcock’s greatest cinematic achievement the psychological slasher laid down some of the foundations for later Halloween movies. Many more modern horror films draw […]
Halloween Film Special | The Alternative List
So it is that time of year again, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and all the other classic horror films come off the shelf, but maybe this year it is time to try something different […]
Halloween Film Special | Sinister
2/5 stars I blame Saw. Sinister is the morbid journey of a nonfiction writer, played by Ethan Hawke, as he investigates serial murders of families across the States. Each of the murders share a common […]
Cross Country Team Wether’ The Storm
Last Saturday marked the return of the cross country season for the University, with a good group of runners taking part in the West Yorkshire League. The race took place in Wetherby over a […]