BBC Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac, Sub Focus and Ella Eyre have been announced as the headline acts at this year’s Leeds Ball. Other artists set to perform include The Voice star Becky Hill and […]
Sunshine Cocktails: Strawberry and Basil Margaritas
Spring has certainly sprung, and today it would seem summer is just around the corner. So, why not celebrate the sun, and enjoy a delicious cocktail with your friends. A Strawberry Basil Margarita is an invigorating […]
Trend Alert: cowboy boots
I have never been quite so excited than for the return of the cowboy boot! It is the ultimate shoe to wear with flirty summer dresses and skirts when you want to combine ‘feminine’ and […]
Ode to Autumn
Put away your Birkenstocks,let down that artful top-knot, guys and gals, because summer is dead. Let us welcome in the glorious rule of Autumn. Rather than mourning the loss of sunny days and the imminent […]
English summer solves some questions but leaves plenty more unanswered
Where to start? This has been the most dramatic, turbulent and downright crazy summer of English cricket since the early 90s, when every summer seemed to be the most turbulent in living memory. From captaincy […]
Features | Sea-ing the light: Why the English Seaside is the Best Place on Earth
For a long time, I’ve trusted in the mantra that if you take a plane somewhere, than that holiday is going to be better than the place you were originally. This is particularly true of […]
Fashion| If money wasn’t an issue we’d be buying…
Prada oval sunglasses, Selfridges, £285.00 It’s that time of year again! The sun has been shining on us for over a month now, so, let’s give our sunglasses collection a little re-vamp to celebrate the […]
Features | Top Five Jobs Abroad in Summer
No one wants to spend their summer holidays at home, begging their parents each night for a tenner to go down the pub and being told to ‘go and get a job!’ It’s never too […]
Food | Gingerbread Lad – Serving Up Summer
What better way to spend the long weeks away from studying, than cooking up some treats to enjoy on a (hopefully) hot summer’s day? Breakfast – Avocado and Tomato on Toast Toast doesn’t have to […]
Photojournal: Winter Days in Buenos Aires
It’s 6am and LAN Airlines Flight #461 from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Aires is turbulently scaling the Andes Mountains. As the sun rises and illuminates their peaks, long shadows are cast through the snow. […]
A Feminist’s Guide to Summer
Leeds has experienced a mass student exodus, we all survived moving weekend, exam results are in and the sun has actually come out long enough to make me purchase a pair of shorts: I can no longer deny that summer is officially […]
Oh, I do like to live beside the seaside
As you may have guessed by my writing in this publication, during term time I live in the sunny city of Leeds. However, my home town is a popular seaside resort on the East Coast; […]