Archive for December, 2011

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There is something rotten in the state of capitalism

Capitalism is in crisis. This is the proclamation of one of the banners at the St. Paul’s protest. What this means, or what the protesters stand for, no one is quite sure.

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Lumiere: Chaos of Opposites?

Celia Scruby Investigates the role of creativity Vs. science within public art installation

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My Tram Experience: engage before it’s too late

The recent internet explosion surrounding the upload of the YouTube clip “My Tram Experience” on the 27th November has sparked heated, and in places abusive, debate on the internet worldwide.

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Russsia: Is Art “The opium of the people”?

Gone are the dark days when Art deemed ‘offensive’ to society was subsequently banned…

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Electric Six: The Gay Bar Band

Dick by name and by nature? Dick Valentine talks to Alex Swadling about being rock ‘n’ roll

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Canadian tar-sands imports are a backward step

Britain should develop sustainable energy sources rather than undermine progress on tackling climate change

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Local Spotlight

A quick peruse of the songs available on home grown York-based Miaow Miaow’s myspace shows a band with enough musical diversity in four songs to cover several bands’ entire discographies…

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Overcrowded lectures have frustrated students who have displayed their displeasure at many universities Image credit: Vorarlberg OnlineGerman students embroiled in university funding confusion

Two years after being introduced in most states, tuition fees are being scrapped so that they remain in just three of Germany’s sixteen states

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Starting Over

Business or Pleasure? Alex Edgerton muses on reforming

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The Vanbrugh occupation at York echoed the  global  ‘Occupy’ movement Image credit: Andy DavisYork students occupy Vanbrugh

Students from the University of York occupied the grass area of Le Page Court, Vanbrugh, on 23rd November in opposition to the rise in tuition fees and cuts to the education funding

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Journalism’s bad name

The Leveson Inquiry portrays a false image of journalism.

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Joker

The Bristolian prince of dubstep left his doubters silenced with an electric show supported by Royce Rolls

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Autumn statement shows Chancellor charting the wrong course

The Chancellor’s autumn statement shows that the direction the government and the economy is going needs to be changed

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James Blake

What he lacks in stage presence James Blake tries to make up for in bass

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My Week with Marilyn

Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn endeavours to document the intense production week of Sir Lawrence Olivier’s 1957 hit ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’

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