Immigration makes the headlines on a daily basis. It has become part of the national vocabulary in a such a way that we don’t often stop and question how it is represented. Politicians and newsrooms […]
Theatre | But Then There Was Ella – MA Student's play debuts at stage@leeds
But Then There Was Ella, a LUU Open Theatre production, debuted in Stage One in stage@leeds. Written and directed by MA Student Jess Macdonald, Ella beautifully and expertly captures the failures in the human condition, tackling […]
Books | How should a person be?
“We live in an age of some really great blow-job artists. Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was tops for the novel” In How Should a Person Be? memoir, fiction […]
Comedy | Russell Howard – Wonderbox
Image: Coventry Telegraph Midway through Russell Howard’s show, something weird happens. While delivering the punchline to a joke condemning the EDL, a heckle comes from the first few rows. Howard, stopped in his tracks, tries reassuring […]
TV | Freeview Flicks of the Week – Woman in Black, Wall Street & the one and only Grease
There’s always a wide selection of great films available on Freeview, and seeing as staying in is the new going out, TV presents the ideal opportunity to catch up on what you might have missed […]
TV | Live in Space – Out of this world
It is perhaps unsurprising that Channel 4 should be the first to produce a TV show in space, given its track record of filming the dangerously absurd. It seems there’s very little left on earth […]
Books | Cheat's guide to Dune
LSi presents the abbreviated guide to Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi epic. Who? Paul Atreides – Teenage heir to the noble House Atreides. As opposed to yelling obscenities down his Xbox Live headset, his teenage life consists […]
TV | The X Factor – Are the votes finally in?
X Factor has dominated the Saturday night prime time slot since what feels like the beginning of time, but it may finally be coming to the end of its long reign, as Simon Cowell takes […]
Books |An astronaut’s guide to life on earth
It’s not often that you get an insight into a job so far removed from everyday life that it literally happens off planet. Chris Hadfield is a man who has done it all – alongside […]
TV | Shetland – Dark and intense yet cheesy drama
If you like your crime drama cheesy, yet dark and intense then Shetland, adapted from Ann Cleeves’ best- selling novels, is the show for you. The series has all the hallmarks of Broadchurch: murder in […]
Theatre | Spring Awakening – the infamous play gets an evocative modern update
Image: West Yorkshire Playhouse The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s adaptation of Spring Awakening, first performed in 1906, is not for the fainthearted. The line “when I first came, I became an atheist” does not even begin […]
TV | Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure – An aesthetic delight for eyes and ears alike
This series sees the return of the Hairy Biker duo, Dave Myers and Si King, as they explore the culinary delights of Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong and South Korea. The array of settings is nothing […]