Following one of the most political Academy Awards ceremonies, and indeed awards seasons, in history, questions are being asked about whether we should be politicising award ceremonies and looking to celebrities to make statements about […]
5 Decades of Damon: 50 reasons to celebrate Albarn
On 23rd March 2018, the incredible Damon Albarn celebrates his milestone 50th birthday. To mark the occasion and as a tribute to his extraordinary life and career, music editor Hollie Griss has compiled 50 of […]
Autopilot culture: being mindful and pressing pause
Our every day lives seem to just fly by. We wake up, have breakfast, commute, go to work, school or university, we have lunch, come home, eat dinner, and we go to sleep. We seem […]
Parklife Launch Petition to Make the Festival a Bank Holiday Weekend
The boss of Parklife Festival in Manchester is calling for the festival weekend to be a bank holiday. He argues that it would be better for the economy to spread out the May bank holidays, […]
Pets on vegan diets: foxy or not?
Vegan activist and Youtuber, Sonia Sae, has recently caught the attention of the media due to her severely underweight fennec fox pet, Jumanji. Sae adopted, or as she claims, rescued, the fox from a breeder […]
Looking at reward systems: is the academic pressure a positive influence?
As we once again approach a busy period of exams and essays, I find myself reflecting upon the enormous pressure some of us put ourselves under to achieve academically. I think that I bought into […]
All Points East adds The xx and Lorde to exceptional line-up
East London’s Victoria Park’s newest and most exciting summer festival for the 2018 calendar has to be All Points East. The festival spreading across the weekend of the 25th to the 27th of May, featuring titans of both the indie-rock and […]
Lost and Found: “The African Mona Lisa”
The 1974 painting of a Nigerian Princess resurfaced at the start of February and was sold at Bonham’s auction house in early March for £1.2m, £900,000 more than had been estimated. The painting, of Princess […]
Every Third Minute Launches with ‘Still Alice’
Every Third Minute. a festival at West Yorkshire Playhouse charting resilience against dementia, was launched with the warming ‘Still Alice’. Arts writer Catherine Corcoran gives us the rundown. First performed in 2013 by Chicago’s Lookingglass […]
A Guide to Leeds from an International Student’s Perspective
It’s always the same old story: every morning I snooze my alarm and I fall asleep again. Would you think that after few months I can still suffer the jet lag? Well, when I suddenly […]
REVIEW: Altered Carbon
This new high-concept science fiction on Netflix takes old tropes and turns them into something fresh and compelling. Altered Carbon is based on the premise that people have their consciousness downloaded onto a disc, which […]
REVIEW: Atlanta Season 2 Episode 1: Alligator Man
Multi-faceted artist Donald Glover’s Emmy and Golden Globe winning series, Atlanta, returned at the beginning of the month and is a series best defined as “hard to define”. In this first episode, we dive straight […]