13th February 2013
Craig Angus Saunas, Ibrahimovic, Gamla Stan, Gothenburg, ABBA. We love Sweden, they love us – and they love pop music too. Did you know that outside of the USA and UK no-one produces more of the stuff. On a completely unrelated note, did you know that Liechtenstein is the world’s biggest producer of false teeth? ...
13th February 2013
Ruaridh Frize Everyone loves a celebrity drug scandal; Kate Moss doing cocaine, Lindsay Lohan doing just about everything and now we have Justin Bieber of all people, being caught smoking what looked suspiciously like marijuana. Considering this is not the first time a young teen star has been caught ‘experimenting’ with drugs – Miley Cyrus ...
13th February 2013
Hugo Wynston-Chamberlain Earlier in the month, Education Minister David Willets announced there needs to be a greater push in getting more white working-class males into university, as recent figures highlighted only 30% of male school-leavers continued into Higher Education. According to Willets, this put these young men into the ‘disadvantaged groups’ category, that need a ...
13th February 2013
Craig Angus Ah, the cinema, fond memories. Pic ‘n’ Mix, “put it back son, that’s £8.45 of wine gums and strawberry laces you tit”; spilling popcorn all over the corridor; being asked to leave during M. Night Shyamalan’s classic ‘The Village’ – yep, I really do love the cinema. The overall experience; the ticket stubs; ...
13th February 2013
Tom Eaton Quentin Tarantino has always had a knack for mixing genre motifs into unlikely new forms. His latest fad seems to be for historical “Retribution-Fantasy”, transposing a sort of Alien vs. Predator paradigm to the goodies and baddies of the most sensitive historical subjects out there. Django Unchained picks up where the Nazis vs. Jews ...
13th February 2013
Rory Ogden Director Pablo Larrain’s latest work ‘No!’ documents the events immediately preceding the landmark 1988 Chilean plebiscite, which would ultimately lead to the first democratically elected Chilean government in 17 years. The referendum called for the people of Chile to mandate their incumbent leader, Augusto Pinochet with a further 10 years in office, or ...
13th February 2013
Words: David Robertson Photos: Cliff Andrade I’m in Govan on a Saturday night and a crowd has gathered around two men squaring up to one another. Veins throbbing, muscles glistening, the two men are eye to eye. One of them – the smaller of the two who looks like he’d end up worse off in a ...
13th February 2013
Katherine Thomas For me it started with rice. You see, I’d grown up with only one type of rice. In my sheltered pre-university existence in a market town in rural Oxfordshire, other types seemed superfluous. Yet amidst all the excitement of each new university experience, I found food to be the one experience I got ...
13th February 2013
Calum MacLeod Over the past 20 years Celtic Connections has evolved into one of the most respected and acclaimed folk music festivals in the land. However, when it comes to its treatment of Scottish Gaelic not only does it leave much to be desire, but it could actually be contributing to the decline of the ...
13th February 2013
Elizabeth Jakaitis If you’re looking for inexpensive concerts featuring some promising up-and-coming bands, King Tut’s is where it’s at. On January 11th, four skilled bands performed at King Tut’s New Year’s Revolution. Fat Goth took the stage first and wasted no time revving up the audience. The trio from Dundee played a forceful and energetic ...
