1. Relax and recover from all the exam stress by taking a nice hot bath. No matter how often your parents and friends told you “You’ll be fine!” writing exams is not a walk through […]
Blogs | Lazy Afternoons w/ Outlaws Yacht Club & Mrs Atha’s
On paper, Outlaws Yacht Club looked like it fitted the bill for a long lunch in some new surroundings and a few celebratory post hand-in drinks. With the promise of mulled wine and scotch eggs […]
Film | Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Just not quite long enough to do justice
Image: Videovision Entertainment A film based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom, was always going to be successful in the post-Christmas cinema listings. It was also bound to receive a plethora […]
Fashion | If money weren't an issue we'd be buying…
Jil Sander Riverton cashmere coat, £3,410 at Harrod’s. January. Infamously the most miserable month of the year where the realization dawns on us that it’s another twelve months until Christmas and January exams are only […]
Lifestyle | Brain food to help you through the essay and revision period
Balancing revision and a healthy lifestyle can be difficult, as it’s far too easy to opt for a frozen pizza rather than put the effort into cooking from scratch when the all-important exam period is […]
Gielgud Theatre, London | Strangers on a Train – Good, but not Hitchcock
Image: Gielgud Theatre With stage decorations to fill any design student’s wildest dream, Strangers on a Train is not only a tense, emotive and dynamic play but a visual spectacle to remember. Based on Patricia […]
Art | D&AD: a design for life.
Image courtesy of TASCHEN D&AD is an originally British and now wholly international organisation that rewards commercial creativity, the self-titled Nobel Prize of the creative industries. Their yearly annuals bring together the work of those […]
TV | The 7.39 – A surprisingly enjoyable romance without the happy-ever-after cliché ending
For some reason re-reading Starter for Ten whilst at university has become a ritual to me. It’s set at university. It’s an easy read and has a satisfying ending. Thankfully it doesn’t follow the same […]
Comedy | Much A-Stew About Nothing
To his critics, Stewart Lee is little more than a champagne socialist: an audience-hating, Oxbridge-educated comedian who cracks cheap jokes at the expense of the establishment for an audience of similarly well-off lefties. To […]
Fashion | YMC Fashion Week Party
There ain’t no party like a fashion week party. This week I scored an invite to the YMC after show party, hosted by Men’s Health and Liberty, London. As David Gandy showed off his newly embroidered ‘David […]
Interview | Paul Sinha – "I’m not the kind of comic who’ll go on stage and slag off the Tories"
Any introduction to Paul Sinha usually contains one, if not all, of the following biographical details: a qualified GP, a keen quizzer, a sports obsessive and an openly gay man, he is perhaps most widely […]
Music | Pet Sounds returns to the 02 Academy
After a four year hiatus, Pet Sounds returns to O2 Academy Leeds on 18/01/2014. Slicing up licks and clicks with beats and bangs, Yorkshire’s favourite club is back by popular demand. Expect very special guests, […]