Archive for October, 2011

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The forgotten subject

Ed Scoobie-Would looks at the role of black people in Victorian Art

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Apocalypse Now?

Is the apocalypse painter John Martin making a comeback via Tate Britain’s new Exhibition? Sarah Jilani investigates

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What not to read

“Chick lit – shit lit”, and, “the sooner it dies the better” were among the comments on recent articles reporting a loss in sales of 10 per cent in the popular writing genre. Self-professed literary minds all over the country are seeing this demise in the genre as a welcome prospect. Yet as a literature [...]

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Trends. Men at work

In the fashion world, functional is often viewed as a dirty word, one which sees style sacrificed for practicality. However when examining men’s work clothes, it is possible to see that you do not necessarily have to forget about looking good whilst getting your hands dirty.

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The Trends S/S 12

Twinkle, Twinkle Some shine out more than others in fashion, and Mr Christopher Kane certainly knows how to bottle star dust. This trend is principally based on star prints, but as you have never seen them before. The use of photographic prints of actual stars from NASA was a main look for street style at [...]

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Location, location, location

When I read that the latest McQueen collection was shown in a morgue I felt a bit awkward…

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Hello Sadness my old friend

Los Campesinos! frontman Gareth tells Sam Briggs about their fourth album Hello Sadness

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Paradise Vendors: An Interview with Male Bonding

Male bonding give Adam Bychawski tour tips

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Onslaught

It’s been a long journey for thrash titans Onslaught, disbanding in 1991, reforming in 2004 and turning over a vast amount of band members and facial hair.

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Beth Jeans

Beth Jeans Houghton, a 21-year-old guitarist and singer-songwriter from Newcastle, played the Duchess early October to a small but appreciative crowd: composed in no small part of friends of Houghton and the support acts though also containing a few clearly rapt BJH devotees

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Melancholia

Anticipating a sci-fi heavy film a la Armageddon, my expectations were not met. They were surpassed. Visually stunning and emotionally draining, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia delivers with this apocalyptic drama.

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Smoking – Certificate 18

New research has suggested that films featuring cigarettes are unsuitable for teenagers. Vicky Morris asks whether such proposals are worth listening to.

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Drive

Ryan Gosling gives a stand-out performance in Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest offering.

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Leave behind your prejudices and embrace northern quirks

For freshers, York may well be your first experience of Yorkshire, or in fact your first experience of the north at all. The majority of University of York students are from the south of England. So, strangely, although you may have moved north you will in fact find yourself in a very southern environment.

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Inconsistencies in league tables prove them worthless

Dramatic news this summer; York is dipping in the league tables. The Times HE World University rankings saw us drop from 81st to 121st.

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