Archive for June, 2009
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Modern Day Plebeianism?
By Chris Navier — June 24, 2009
An investigation has shown me some very depressing, if a little amusing, sides to the general public.
Final beckons for Alcuin after Derwent’s cup dreams disintegrate
By Adam Shergold — June 23, 2009
Alcuin will face Vanbrugh in the final of the College Cup after an excellent performance saw them beat Derwent 3-1 on the astroturf today.
Success for Boat Club on three fronts
By Adam Shergold — June 23, 2009
The University Boat Club rounded off their season with encouraging results at Henley, Marlow and York regattas last weekend
‘You Can’t Control How Your iPod Shuffles’
By Holly Williams — June 23, 2009
The billing of You Can’t Control How Your iPod Shuffles as a multimedia piece was somewhat misleading. I entered the barn expecting some arty, techno-savvy ‘experimental’ student drama. Actually, it was a comedy sketch show
Art in its Place
By Lida Mirzaii — June 23, 2009
In 2007 the National Gallery, along with Hewlett Packard, put reproductions of its paintings out onto the streets in London.
Hunter
By Lida Mirzaii — June 22, 2009
Hunter, an open-air environmental sculpture constructed from various materials, does at first appear to be- as one observer put it- “a large ball on stilts.”
Cup Dreamz: semi-finals with the prodigal predictor
By Dreamz Murphy — June 22, 2009
He’s back…with a bang. Dreamz Murphy provides the most cutting insights into the College Cup semi-finals in his regular predictor column.
The Sword and The Stone specialised in an excess of everything, with varying success
By Charlotte Hogarth-Jones — June 22, 2009
Sword in the Stone ** Pantsoc’s production of The Sword In The Stone was almost certainly overflowing with enthusiasm. Sadly there’s only so much thigh slapping and moustache twiddling can do for a what was essentially a very weak script. This is not intended to be patronising – the passion which the panto cast exuded [...]
York Sport Awards shortlists announced
By Adam Shergold — June 20, 2009
The final shortlists have been released for the annual York Sport Awards, to be presented next Friday
Polo Club make their mark at National Championships
By Steph Ritchie — June 19, 2009
The University Polo Club travelled to Leamington Spa for their National Championships last weekend
Roy “Chubby” Brown
By Beki Senior — June 19, 2009
Sitting amidst a rowdy crowd in York’s Royal Opera House I anticipated my first encounter with ‘The King of Controversial Comedy’, northerner Royston Vasey i.e. Roy Chubby Brown.
Script Factor
By Helen Mackie — June 19, 2009
The Script Factor is held in the studio of the York theatre Royal, an intimate underground performance area with a capacity of around 75 people.
Comedy Night 8
By Laura Connor — June 19, 2009
York Theatre Royal’s Comedy Night seemed to be offering a line-up that could potentially fulfill such criteria: Patrick Monahan offers the energetic (slightly nauseating) banter; Steve Griffin supplies some of his scabrous Scouse stories; whilst Craig Campbell presents elements of terse transnational respite. Or so we would hope.
Julius Caesar
By Jonathan Kerridge-Phipps — June 19, 2009
41 Monkgate, an underused and underrated diamond-in-the-rough of York ’s theatrical spaces, was the perfect setting for a production that could have been sub-titled ‘Something is Rotten in the State of Rome’.
Labelling the human condition
By Nanki Chawla — June 19, 2009
There seems to be a name for everything, the very fact of being human suddenly equates you to some sort of health disorder.


