April 2022 - Page 5 of 6 - The Glasgow Guardian



Review: bbno$ @ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut

6th April 2022

The Canadian rapper proves there is much more to his music than TikTok trends. I’ll be honest, outwith bbno$’ TikTok hits I didn’t know much about him before this gig. However, after listening to a bit more of his music, which bbno$ himself described as “ignorant but melodic”, I quickly understood what I was in ...


Glasgow city centre is becoming inaccessible

6th April 2022

In an attempt to ‘go green’, the bike paths constructed in the city centre provide a new accessibility nightmare. As the host of the COP26 climate summit, Glasgow was the focus of the world and the outcome of the discussions had hoped to pave the way for a sustainable future. Despite the disappointment of many ...


Licence to trill: should films use licensed music or original scores?

6th April 2022

Film soundtracks that contain copyright tunes negatively influence the viewer’s experience and understanding of the film. It’s the intricacy of original film scores that makes them so satisfying. Meticulously crafted with utmost precision, any Danny Elfman or John Williams creation is overanalysis galore as their sudden staccatos and cautious crescendos interact seamlessly with the action ...


Philosophy students question regrade

6th April 2022

Philosophy students upset at the  University for failing to accurately record their exam marks and changing them nearly a half a year later.  18 philosophy students had their marks negatively changed as the result of a “clerical error” five months after receiving their marks on an assessment. The University claims this was the result of ...


What makes a muse?

6th April 2022

Julia Fox’s claim to the title has writer Caitlin Kilpatrick pondering the meaning of the muse in the fashion world today. Every so often we are met with a quote so perplexing it immediately enters pop culture history. While most of us know Julia Fox from her whirlwind romance with Kanye West post-divorce,  she recently ...


Russia’s war on Ukraine: An expert perspective

6th April 2022

Political Communication lecturer Dr Joanna Szostek provides students with a guide to understand the conflict – and how to respond. Understanding a conflict of this magnitude is not easy. With so many tense complications and geo-political implications, the Russian-Ukrainian crisis is arguably the most damaging conflict in Europe since the Cold War.  In times of ...


Review: The Metamorphosis @ Tron Theatre

6th April 2022

Patrick reviews the latest reimagining of Frank Kafka’s allegorical novella, as theatre group Vanishing Point take its tricky-to-adapt narrative and rework it for the stage. Franz Kafka spent almost his entire life in Prague’s small Jewish district, which he called “my prison cell – my fortress”. Despite a successful career as an insurance clerk, he ...


It’s the million-dollar question: What’s happening at Chelsea?

4th April 2022

Sportswriter Samuel Solden reflects on the current ongoings at Chelsea FC. When Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea Football Club in 2003, shockwaves were sent around the football world. This takeover is widely regarded as one of the decisive factors that led to the Premier League receiving large amounts of money from foreign investors. These ...


Glasgow Film Festival 2022: Everything Went Fine

4th April 2022

Axel analyses the ambitious, albeit unexciting, medical drama from wayward french director François Ozon. Celebrating its UK premiere as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, Everything Went Fine is the latest from prolific French filmmaker François Ozon, an earnest but rather nondescript drama about assisted suicide. Having risen to fame as a sort of enfant ...


Is Wordle a form of Wellness?

4th April 2022

Far from being just a silly puzzle, Wordle is good for our cognitive health. Wordle is the latest online craze at the moment, having just been bought over by The New York Times after exploding in popularity at the beginning of the year. However, according to a study by neurologist Douglas Scharre, MD, director of ...