2012 February

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Preview: Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre Season

Leeds Met Gallery & Studio Theatre has been producing and supporting experimental performance work for over 20 years and its

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Channel 4 controversy racist

The End of My Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier. Guilty Pleasure

Bigger. Fatter. Gypsier. Three little words that are strung together to form Channel 4’s new advertising campaign for My Big

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Review: Shame

Shame, released earlier this year and directed by Steve McQueen (not the 1960s icon!), is a brutally honest depiction of

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The Guilt that Comes with Looking Good

So many clothes, nothing to wear. The dreaded phrase I am sure we are all too familiar with. When the

History of chocolate

Chocolate: a brief history

Chocolate has melted into our cultural and national consciousness. It is the ultimate guilty pleasure and, therefore, many people choose

Guilty Pleasures Playlist

Guilty Pleasures Playlist: Musicals

I am fairly upfront about my love for musicals, so they don’t count as a guilty pleasure for me in

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Abstaining for Lent: the case for

Lent is upon us, but will you be giving something up this year? Katie Machin shares with us the merits

Giving up Lent

Abstaining for Lent: the case against

As Lent begins, we debate whether or not it’s a good idea to give up the things we love. Brittney

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Live and Let Die

What happens when a star dies? That depends on the size of the star. When a big star dies, the

UNILAD Banter

Stop the banter bus… It’s time to get off

When the phenomenally popular UK based student website UNILAD was temporarily shut down last month, the internet exploded in a

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Get those Muslims off our Cornflakes!

Not too many moons ago I had the misfortune to pick up a daily newspaper in a fit of mild

Slow Club Review 2012

Review: Slow Club

Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 08/02/2012 Any band that opens a set with a cover of Pulp isn’t just there to

21st Century beauty

Can we define 21st Century Beauty?

Skinny jeans and jeggings. Uggs and Toms, snoods and the Alexander McQueen skull print scarf: love them or hate them,

Pussy Riot

Russia’s All-Female Punk Band Takes the Kremlin

In mid-January on an icy day in Russia’s Red Square, the all-girl punk band, Pussy Riot, took control of a

Video games

Video games: the case for

When this summer I needed a time-sinking distraction from a relationship-related meltdown and my dissertation (ahem),  I knew exactly where

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Video games: the case against

Video games. Whether we play them or not, we are all familiar with them. Your boyfriend (or girlfriend) may be

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The V-Word: an introduction

Valentine. It is a word that divides people, to say the least. For some, it heralds a feeling of excitement;

Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day: the case for

To borrow and then invert a phrase of Bridget Jones’s, I am a ‘Smug Single’. I find the state of

Valentine's Day

Valentine’s Day: the case against

Now, first and foremost, before you jump to a very stereotypical conclusion, I am not a bitter singleton; my inner

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Sex is in the air

Ah, Valentine’s Day: a haze of jewellery, chocolates, roses and impractically skimpy lingerie descends. And for the first few weeks

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Valentine’s Day Blues

Valentine’s day is underpinned by one pervasive notion. Not only is it carried by the sudden proliferation of those blushing

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The Old Romantics: ditching red lace

What is it about Valentine’s Day that evokes images of frilly nighties, hot pink knickers and questionable basques purchased from

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The Singleton’s Guide to 14 February

I was recently asked by one of my friends what I had planned for this year’s Valentine’s Day. She, being

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Valentine’s around the world

Love is all you need. Well, according to The Beatles, that is. And it really is all around. With Valentine’s

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Preview: Pop-Up Film Festival, Kino

Pop-Up Film Festival, Kino, comes to Leeds A Finnish film, award winning shorts, flavoured vodkas, popcorn, a saw player!  Just

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What you wear? Or how you wear it?

As a student, surely I must answer this question by saying that style has to be about how I wear

Defying Hitler

Review: Stalin’s Favourite and Defying Hitler

Stalin’s Favourite Adapted for the stage from Orlando Fige’s The Whisperers by Rupert Wickham, Stalin’s Favourite offers a personal, candid

The Man Repeller

Only sexy when I say it’s okay: The Man Repeller

Good girls are sexy, like, every day I’m only sexy when I say it’s okay[1] I don’t follow many fashion blogs,