20th September 2022
Your no-nonsense guide to one of the main arteries of the West End. Time Out Magazine recently ranked Great Western Road as the third coolest street in the UK, and among the top 33 in the world. While ‘coolness’ is of course subjective, there’s no denying that the West End’s portion of this vast road ...
20th September 2022
This unassuming eatery may be the dark horse of the West End’s thriving Indian restaurant scene. A birthday-related curry was in order. Alas, this was week 11 in semester two – a period largely characterised by burgeoning eye bags and stress-induced insomnia – so we craved somewhere safe, solid and stable. Mister Singh’s seemed the ...
20th September 2022
Rothery discusses the role of gentrification and working-class tourism in driving the rise in outdoor food markets across the city. Street food, originating in Asia, has started to spread to all corners of the world. This has allowed people to present a part of their culture to their community and profit from their diverse recipes. ...
18th September 2022
Who needs good jeans when you’ve got good genes? What makes the ideal model? Long legs? A pretty face? Famous parents? Recently the latter has seemingly become one of the most important criteria for getting your face onto the cover of Vogue. Indeed, many of the top models of this generation have famous parents: Kaia ...
18th September 2022
Flower power, funky furs, and flamboyant flares – maximalism is back. Within the fashion world exists a pendulum. Every few decades or so this pendulum swings from one side to the other from “less is more” to “more is more,” and vice versa. The push and pull of minimalism and maximalism has often been a ...
18th September 2022
Rebecca Richard shares her view on the most recent app to crash (and crash, and crash) the party. It’s 2.47pm on a typical Tuesday and I, like most other BeReal users at this exact moment, am watching the endless spinning circle on my latest post as it competes for upload with the millions of other ...
18th September 2022
Rusted leaves and stripey tees, it’s Tumblr girl autumn. As this October approaches this year, some of us will be pulling out a different costume. Never mind Halloween, for the retired Tumblr kids, it’s time to dust off those leather jackets, fishnets, and that striped t-shirt. For those of us who revelled in the side ...
18th September 2022
The Glasgow Guardian’s guide to making the most of first year while living a 45 minute drive along the M80. Selecting the University of Glasgow as your firm choice on UCAS, you probably thought you were heading off for a new start in Scotland’s most populated and most ethnically diverse city. Glasgow is also known ...
18th September 2022
Culture Editor Jeevan wishes you a warm welcome to sunny glas-gay, highlighting the cities LGBTQ+ spaces in all their glory. Congratulations on becoming a glas-gay. If you’re reading this in freshers’ week, you will probably find yourself in Colourfest at Hive, expecting Paris is Burning but instead grooving to Ne-Yo and Usher. It is a ...
18th September 2022
Jeevan shares some tips and tricks for the frantic scramble for flats at the start of this semester. Glasgow’s housing market is horrendous right now. There are simply too many students wanting too few flats, and if you’re starting the semester without knowing where you’ll be living next year, it must feel really daunting. As ...
