Archive for December, 2011
articles
There is something rotten in the state of capitalism
By Adam Seldon — December 8, 2011
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.
Lumiere: Chaos of Opposites?
By Celia Scruby — December 8, 2011
Celia Scruby Investigates the role of creativity Vs. science within public art installation
My Tram Experience: engage before it’s too late
By Claire Third — December 8, 2011
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.
Russsia: Is Art “The opium of the people”?
By Mary O'Connor — December 8, 2011
Gone are the dark days when Art deemed ‘offensive’ to society was subsequently banned…
Electric Six: The Gay Bar Band
By Alex Swadling — December 8, 2011
Dick by name and by nature? Dick Valentine talks to Alex Swadling about being rock ‘n’ roll
Canadian tar-sands imports are a backward step
By Anna Carling — December 8, 2011
Britain should develop sustainable energy sources rather than undermine progress on tackling climate change
Local Spotlight
By Rory Foster — December 8, 2011
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…
German students embroiled in university funding confusion
By Viola Meyerweissflog — December 8, 2011
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
Starting Over
By Alex Edgerton — December 8, 2011
Business or Pleasure? Alex Edgerton muses on reforming
York students occupy Vanbrugh
By Josiah Mortimer — December 8, 2011
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
Journalism’s bad name
By Jonathan Frost — December 8, 2011
The Leveson Inquiry portrays a false image of journalism.
Joker
By Joni Roome — December 8, 2011
The Bristolian prince of dubstep left his doubters silenced with an electric show supported by Royce Rolls
Autumn statement shows Chancellor charting the wrong course
By Alex Osborne — December 8, 2011
The Chancellor’s autumn statement shows that the direction the government and the economy is going needs to be changed
James Blake
By Rory Foster — December 8, 2011
What he lacks in stage presence James Blake tries to make up for in bass
My Week with Marilyn
By Hannah Wills — December 8, 2011
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’


