Archive for June, 2009

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Modern Day Plebeianism?

An investigation has shown me some very depressing, if a little amusing, sides to the general public.

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Photos: George LowtherFinal beckons for Alcuin after Derwent’s cup dreams disintegrate

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.

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Photograph: Rebecca Jayne Dobinson, HenleySuccess for Boat Club on three fronts

The University Boat Club rounded off their season with encouraging results at Henley, Marlow and York regattas last weekend

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‘You Can’t Control How Your iPod Shuffles’

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

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Art in its Place

In 2007 the National Gallery, along with Hewlett Packard, put reproductions of its paintings out onto the streets in London.

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Hunter

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.”

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The world of predictions' prodigal son returns for the semi-finals (Photo: Arran Bowen-la Grange)Cup Dreamz: semi-finals with the prodigal predictor

He’s back…with a bang. Dreamz Murphy provides the most cutting insights into the College Cup semi-finals in his regular predictor column.

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The Sword and The Stone specialised in an excess of everything, with varying success

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 [...]

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Picture: Justyn HardcastleYork Sport Awards shortlists announced

The final shortlists have been released for the annual York Sport Awards, to be presented next Friday

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Jess Grundy in action - Photo: Steph Ritchie, UY Polo ClubPolo Club make their mark at National Championships

The University Polo Club travelled to Leamington Spa for their National Championships last weekend

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Roy “Chubby” Brown

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.

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Script Factor

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.

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Comedy Night 8

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.

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Julius Caesar

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’.

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Labelling the human condition

There seems to be a name for everything, the very fact of being human suddenly equates you to some sort of health disorder.

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