Carmen Walker-Vazquez speaks to Phoebe Jameson, the activist speaking out about online harassment.
The Gryphon’s favourite albums of 2020
The Gryphon Music and Clubs writers talk you through their favourite albums, EPs and mixtapes of 2020 – beautiful moments in what was a pretty awful year.
The Gryphon’s top tracks of 2020
With the year coming to a close, our writers came together to share some of their favourite tracks of the year.
Eartheather burns bright on latest album ‘Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin”
Carmen Walker-Vasquez talks us through ‘Pheonix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin’, Eartheater’s dazzling new album, described as a return to the “primordial lava lake”.
Not another Van Gogh biopic: At Eternity’s Gate Review
Vincent Van Gogh has become perhaps the most cinematically invented and re-invented of artists since red-haired Kirk Douglas embodied the passionate, tortured genius in 1956’s Lust for Life. The dramatization Van Gogh’s later years, his […]
Pity Review: LIFF 2018
Pretending to cry is almost impossible, but for the sullen-faced protagonist of Babis Makridis’ exercise in absurdist dark comedy Pity, crocodile tears are everything. Pity tells the story of a lawyer, played by the stern […]
The World in a Word: National Poetry Day 2018
Inspired by Chris Riddell, Carmen Walker-Vazquez celebrates last week’s National Poetry Day by sharing her favourite poems that focus on this year’s theme: change. ‘Change is the nursery Of music, joy, life, and eternity.’ – […]
The Art of a New City: Nineties Berlin Exhibition Review
Following a trip to Berlin over summer, Carmen Walker-Vazquez reviews a new multi-media exhibition that captures 1990s Berlin through music, video and installation. Tucked away on a quiet industrial lot in the Berlin neighbourhood of […]