This lemon cake packs a powerful citrus punch, wasting none of the lemons that go into it. Yielding a marvellously moist, and quite sizeable, sponge, there’s plenty to go around. This is a slight twist […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lifestyle | Move over Movember, the Beard Manifesto is here
On October 31th 2013, the controversial Marine Le Pen (leader of the Front National, the main extreme right-wing party in France), sparked off a controversy on Europe 1 radio with her reflections on the newly liberated […]
Food | Regional Recipes – Slovakian Goulash and Parená Knedl’a
Ingredients (Serves 4) Goulash Handful of plain flour 500g cubed lamb 1 tbsp sunflower oil 2 white onions 2 cloves garlic 3 peppers 3 tbsp paprika 2 tbsp chilli 1 tsp cayenne pepper 6 tomatoes […]
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 […]
Travel | An (ex) Boy Scout’s guide to Summer Camping
Camping is a cheap and ‘fun’ way to get away this summer. But spending the weekend in a muddy field can feel like you’ve gone on holiday by mistake. LSi’s own (ex) Boy Scout is […]
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 […]
Food | Gastronaut – Belgrave Music Hall Street Feast
Amid the Saturday bustle of Leeds, the aromas streaming from Belgrave Music Hall offered a respite from the long-awaited sun. Following on from the success of their first Street Feast, Belgrave opened its doors for […]
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 […]