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The term ‘essential worker’ is something many of us have become more than familiar with during the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing anybody unable to stop working in public spaces due to their crucial jobs. Wit […]

Green, ethical, environmentally friendly—the list of buzzwords encouraging sustainable living is ever growing. A universal consciousness of the world we live in has spread across Western society. More and more p […]

In March 2020, the curtains were closed indefinitely in theatres across the world. But in August 2020 the curtains opened in a new way. American schoolteacher Emily Jacobson posted a ‘love ballad’ to Remy from […]

Recently gaining the title of City of Culture 2021, Coventry has implemented ambitious plans to showcase its range of artistic and creative talent in the UK City of Culture Festival from 15 May 2021. The event is […]

Drag is having its moment. The great success of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, as well as re-evaluations of the skill of drag performers such as Divine, shows that the artform is being taken more seriously than ever b […]

With a TV adaptation on the horizon, these groundbreaking stories will finally get the audience worthy of them.

The HBO TV adaption of Naughty Dog’s magnum opus The Last of Us had been on my radar since the f […]

Videogame characters are rarely heralded as style icons until their garb is turned into cosplay. Often overlooked are the intricate design choices made by character creators that really pull a look together. […]

Anyone with an interest in videogames and the gaming community will be aware of the poor reputation they have for their treatment of women. One only has to think back to 2014’s misogynistic, online harassment […]

Buying a Nintendo 3DS when I turned 22 reminded me how happy I really was through my darkest episode of homesickness.

One summer afternoon, as I’d just turned 11, my auntie gave me my dearest non-human p […]

Indie games are going to dominate the gaming landscape in 2021. As larger AAA studios continue to face the difficulties of remote operation, and are still being forced to delay new titles for the greater good, […]

That feeling of nostalgia for an event you didn’t attend—it is hard to explain in words my feelings about missing Muse’s 2011 Reading and Leeds set, where they treated the masses to Origin of Symmetry in its e […]

1971 was the year which saw Carole King’s Tapestry transform the New York native from one of the most prolific songwriters of the era into a world-renowned singer and performer. In the 50 years since its r […]

Maybe this is the answer: maybe the answer is not to get trapped in questions of whether you are looking too far forward or are stuck in the past, but instead to simply carry on doing something. Greta Van Fleet […]

Hometown: Edinburgh

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NANI’s early forays into music foreshadow the eclectic, genre-blending style that she has become so known for in Edinburgh’s i […]

Stuck on what to stream this month? Unlike other lists, we’re on hand to recommend a variety of films for every mood, from tear-jerkers to trailblazers. Here are our picks for the best films to stream in the UK t […]

Do you ever wake up in the morning and just lie there in that liminal space between dreaming and reality? If not, take a moment to try it, because that same feeling is where you’ll find the second season of w […]

Danish-born singer songwriter Amalie Bryde relocated to London to follow her passion of music. Now she’s released her debut EP Lay Down which is filled with six “rhapsodic, resonant and reflective” tracks. She s […]

Movie Monday: Film Recommendations By Our Contributors

It might be hard to believe that a slasher movie about killer plants would ever feel timely. But in 2021, more than a decade after it was widely panned by […]

Chances are, unless you watch Disney Channel, the name Olivia Rodrigo meant nothing to you at the start of 2021. Then in mid-January, using her newly earned ‘drivers license’, she crashed onto the scene with a d […]