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Friday night brought us a celebration of all things jazz and funk, with The Red Brick Jazz Sextet, The Donut Kings and Rough Edge Brass Band offering up an eclectic mix of jazz standards, pop arrangements and timeless classics. First off, The Red Brick Jazz Sextet brought us some upbeat numbers which featured two saxes, […]
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Above: Michael Kiwanuka A number one album in the UK charts and numerous awards and award nominations would appear enough to banish any musician’s notion of imposter syndrome. Yet, in an interview with The Guardian, Michael Kiwanuka talks about how he has only just learned to discard this feeling. There is no sense of this […]
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Silent films have always intimidated me. At first glance they seem outdated and inaccessible, only useful for studying a bygone era of cinema. Most people who aren’t film critics or academics struggle with the idea of watching a film which lacks one of the key elements of any modern production. For my part, I assumed […]
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Hemingway published ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ in 1952, and it was to be his last major work. It is easy to see the parallels between the old man in the novel, called Santiago, and Hemingway. Santiago suffers from bad luck in his old age despite being a great fisher in his youth. Hemingway […]
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Image Description: ‘The Reader’ by Renoir When November is at its drizzliest, literature can provide some much needed escapism. A good story can block out the harshest of winds or the bleakest of skies, and provide us with a window into sunnier climes. What follows are two of my favourite pieces of literature which I […]
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Image description: ‘Erosion’: an artwork produced by AI As an anthropology student, I spend a lot of my time studying humanity in general. One of the key, and perhaps most contentious debates within the discipline is the question of what makes us human. A landmark moment in our evolutionary history, and one aspect that truly […]
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Above: Kanye West Finally! After a long 10-month period, Kanye first announced that he is dropping his ninth studio album‘JESUS IS KING’ on September 27th but after some delay, it is finally here! This year has been a rollercoaster for Kanye, from his political interest aligning with that of Trump’s, to his controversial statement […]
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At long last, Rex Orange County’s new album Pony has graced our Spotify playlists, our well-loved stack of CDs, our vinyl collections and finally, our hearts. Tender lyricism conjoined with a smug, wry cynicism characterise his indie pop, where equally mournful, self-deprecating lamentations can be (somehow) also quite the uplifting modern-day love songs. Within his […]
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Above: Lake near Nisswa, Minnesota My earliest memory of listening to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, his ‘Emperor’ Concerto is at my maternal grandparents’ house in Nisswa, Minnesota, a lakeside town in the Northern United States. That’s where my grandparents moved when Papa retired from his job with Ford Motor Company in 1994. My […]
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Above: Lana del Rey Weeks have passed since the release of Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey’s 6th studio album. NFR! was reviewed glowingly by the likes of Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, and with ‘Video Games’ being recently pronounced ‘Song of the Decade’ at the Q awards, it seems like Lana Del Rey has […]
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Amidst a year of closing shops on the High Street, a new establishment has opened it doors this week: The Ivy Oxford Brasserie. If you’re in 4th year and beyond, you may recognise it in the old NatWest building (which had previously been bought by Lincoln College). A week before its official grand opening, the […]
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Image description: Sickert’s 5th version of ‘Ennui’ By venturing up the stairs, through the Italian renaissance, and up the stairs once more, before a quick left turn, you will find, between two Brightons, a scene of pervasive beige. A brown man lounging in the foreground while his wife discontentedly leans against a dreary cabinet: a […]
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The premise of the novel is boring: it’s a classic coming of age novel where two teenagers, Connor and Marianne, struggle to find themselves and their place in the world in the transition years from high school to university to adult life. It relates a series of minor ups and downs, and the ways that […]
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Image description: Eike Schmidt posing beside a print of ‘Vase of Flowers’ An interesting ‘case study’ is provided by a painting which recently garnered significant worldwide attention: in mid-2019, 75 years after having been stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War, Italian and German officials co-operatively arranged for the return of Dutch painter […]
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I won’t lie, when I first saw the running time for Sübverse I was skeptical. A sketch that can maintain audience interest for over 90 minutes is an impressive feat even for the most seasoned of comedians. And yet, it quickly became apparent that my fears were misplaced. Sübverse was consistently entertaining and hilarious, and […]
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If like me, you have found yourself out and about with nothing to eat due to the unfortunate affliction of a gluten-free lifestyle, occasionally forced to subsist on a chocolate bar and a bag of crisps because you haven’t mapped out your safe foods in town, look no further than this handy guide to gluten-free […]
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As someone who enjoys cooking and who has been brought up with a mindset that home-cooking is the healthiest and cheapest approach to food, I naturally plunged into self-catering from week one of first year. After having survived one year without making a huge economic loss (or weight gain), I realised my methods must be […]
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The majority of the people who know me are aware that I love Scream. As far as I’m concerned, it’s one of the best horror films ever made. It manages to tackle meta-humour, whilst still creating compelling characters and a creepy atmosphere. For that alone it occupies a special place in my heart. However, my […]
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Art is a reminder of what makes us human: it reminds how to feel, to think, to live. It allows us to express ourselves and comprehend others in ways which we would not otherwise. For such a contentious and heated issue like climate change, art has (and will increasingly have) a crucial role as a […]
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