The other day, perhaps Friday, a friend asked me for a few books they should read. I gladly responded with a list of five books that I thought suitable for […]
Category: Culture
Q&A with King Koby’s Neil Smedley
Jurassic 5’s Concrete Schoolyard resonates around the room. Three stylish fellas are queuing on a bench facing the barber chairs. Stickers and posters bearing iconic lines like Mediocrity is a […]
Q&A With Rose Anne Evans
Rose Anne Evans is a first-year French, German and Linguistics BA student here at the University of York and she’s written a book, Fight For Freedom, to raise awareness about […]
Review: York Art Gallery: Albert Moore
York Art Gallery’s latest exhibition is the first solo exhibition of Albert Moore since his death in 1893. The show has been organised by York Museums Trust and Museum De […]
Spinning nostalgia: the vinyl resurrection
Fashions are very much circular in motion: staying briefly, departing but then meeting again shortly. This is certainly the case in the music industry in recent years, whereby the vinyl, […]
Review: A Conversation with…
The York Literature Festival this year was convened by Robert O’Connor, who organised two weeks of workshops and shows in the city. On the third day of the festival, the […]
South Korean popular culture
I’m going to start by saying that I’m aware that K-Pop is not an interesting topic to many people. When I try to talk about it, most of my friends […]
In the ‘selfie’ world, are we showing our best side?
Did you take a ‘selfie’ today? Understood as a “photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website,” the word […]
Obituary: Rabbi Lionel Blue
Rabbi Lionel Blue, who has long been a familiar voice for listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, died on Monday at the age of 86. “Delivering [his] monologues in a […]
France, secularism and a banned bathing suit
The ban of the burqini in France, a form of swimwear designed for Muslim women, has prompted a large discussion about religious freedom, secularism and the involvement of the state […]