To round off Black History Month LSi chose the top five books to highlight the fight against racial discrimination and prejudice. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a searing portrayal of racial prejudice […]
TV | LSi top TV picks to get you in the mood for Halloween
So you want to get into the Halloween spirit but you have your dissertation looming over your head. Procrastination is one thing, but you just can’t bring yourself to watch The Human Centipede: Full Sequence, […]
TV | Freshers
Being a Fresher is a time most students will never forget. Some parts are also a blur that we will never remember (we do have the knack of killing off a few brain cells from […]
Film | Spooky, Scary – Films for Halloween
Image: Warner Bros The Shining dir. Stanley Kubrick This Kubrick classic continues to chill our bones even after multiple viewings. A man takes his family with him to spend the winter as caretaker in an isolated […]
Art | Art and Life at Leeds City Gallery – A Creative Partnership
Image: Leeds City Gallery 3/5 Stars Art and Life’ follows the artistic partnership between Ben and Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s and the varying influences their friends and fellow collaborators (Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis and […]
Opera | Peter Grimes – Britten's harrowing production
Image: Leeds Grand Theatre 3/4 Stars Benjamin Britten’s production of Peter Grimes is an epic tragedy set against the backdrop of a seaside town, playing at Leeds Grand Theatre until October 26. The opera is based […]
Art | Tom Stoddart stands out at The Whitecloth Gallery
Image: Tom Stoddart 4/5 Stars The utter magnificence of Stoddart’s photo- graphs is difficult to appreciate fully in rela- tion to the environment within which they are displayed. Filling two small rooms, the images are […]
TV | Karl Pilkington – The Moaning of Life
The “little round headed buffoon” is back and oh how we have missed him. Karl Pilkington’s new series sees him go it alone without the great contribution of Gervais and Merchant. The first episode addresses […]
TV | Made in Chelsea
Pseudo-reality obsessors all over Britain need wait no longer for the return of E4’s BAFTA Award winning show for its sixth series (yes, really). This is reality television at its finest, so long as the […]
TV | Hello Ladies
This sitcom and its main character have one thing in common; no one wants to keep seeing them each week. Stephen Merchant’s first solo endeavour has just launched on HBO but Hello Ladies seems to […]
Books | The Quarry
In the great author’s posthumous novel, fans of Iain Banks will recognise the bleak surroundings of The Crow Road and perhaps the misfit protagonist who appears to mirror Banks’ best known novel. Kit, like Frank […]
Theatre | Punk Rock – A Damning Portrait of Ourselves
When someone inevitably tells you that Punk Rock, by British playwright Simon Stephens, is ‘like The History Boys’, don’t listen to them. If you go into Punk Rock expecting it to be like The History […]