Last week Leeds University Union agreed to a ‘Time to Talk’ pledge. Sam Dennis and Lawrence Thompson from the Mind Matters society talk to LS about what’s next for mental health and their battle against […]
Comment | Dignity for dementia victims
Based on star-crossed lovers, Nicholas Sparks’s The Notebook is one of the most heart-rending films and stories of all time. Not only is it the cliché of the forbidden, highly romanticised youthful love which tugs […]
Features | Top Five Jobs Abroad in Summer
No one wants to spend their summer holidays at home, begging their parents each night for a tenner to go down the pub and being told to ‘go and get a job!’ It’s never too […]
Opera|Girl of the Golden West – The very first spaghetti western
Image: Opera North Critic Sir Christopher Frayling said that ‘…it was Giacomo Puccini who wrote the first Spaghetti Western worthy of the name…’ and it’s a proper old fashioned western of saloon brawls, poker games […]
Science | 3D-Printed hip replacement allows teenager to walk again
Joint replacements are currently some of the most common orthopaedic operations performed in the UK (generally as a result of an ageing population) with the vast majority of replacement parts being of a stock size […]
Art | Flyposting at Leeds City Gallery – aesthetically thirst quenching
Image: Leeds City Gallery Gig posters have become a well established feature of our student environs over the years, whether plastered to a nearby lamppost on the way to uni or covering up that nasty […]
Fashion | Brand Alert : Jackson & Jerome
As North London born brand Jackson & Jerome approaches it’s third birthday, as does the launch of the designer trios latest collection. This time around, they’ve veered away from the first collections powerful staple […]
Film | Fritz Lang's Destiny – Hitchcock and Buñuel's gothic inspiration
As the British Film Institute’s Gothic Festival draws to an end, the Hyde Park Picture House played host to a live score of Fritz Lang’s Destiny. The film itself was born in the early 1920s […]
Comment | The harsh reality about anorexia
When people hear the word ‘anorexic’, they immediately think of extreme dieting, binging and purging and unfortunately, in most cases, they often associate the disorder with teenage girls. The two words that do not come […]
Science | Elephants express empathy like humans
Empathy has finally been experimentally expressed in elephants. The creatures have been documented exhibiting behavioral examples of empathy towards each other, acknowledging the pain or distress of another elephant. Notably, they are even reported to elicit efforts […]
Clubs | Review – Selective Hearing presents Mano Le Tough
Photo: Prosumer I hopped on the ever-luxurious Megabus to Manchester for the first installment of Selective Hearing’s birthday celebrations. The Leeds and Manchester-based collective turn four this year and they’re certainly trying to prove they […]
TV | True Detective – Part of the McConaughey 'McConnaissance'
True Detective, HBO’s latest big budget show, always ran the risk of simply rehashing the typical cop drama storyline. A complicated murder and mismatched partners forced to work together is a road well-trodden, but True […]