Dracula: The Bloody Truth Preview
With Halloween ominously looming around the corner, it seems only apt to delve into what Brighton Theatre’s weird and wonderful world has to offer this October. Next week at Brighton’s…
Digital Tattoo Review
Katie Dale-Everett’s Digital Tattoo came to the Attenborough Centre last Tuesday, blending dance, projection and interactive theatre to critique our increasingly dependent relationship with social media. The first, and stronger,…
BONER KILLER Preview
Brighton’s queer performance venue The Marlborough Pub and Theatre will be showing Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER”. The show takes Markey’s story-driven stand-up into an intimate musical conversation between what Markey…
Our Plastic Oceans
More plastic in the sea than fish by 2050 if action is not taken In 1997, Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain competed in a yacht race and…
Rape culture in universities
Toxic masculinity remains a prevalent facet of university life: a circumscribed and repressive guidebook to manhood, the concept negates male affirmations of emotion and exalts violence, sex and aggression –…
Academic Armchair: Between platonic love and internet pornography
Attempting to show readers how an “holistic approach” to matters of sexuality is a better one, Tanja Staehler and Alexander Kozin tackle most aspects of modern life in this article,…
REMOTE Review
I went into this performance with few expectations, but I did have one: I was certain I would experience interactive theatre. This exciting possibility was my only preconception due to…
Smile – you’re NOT on camera!
Campus CCTV ‘not fit for purpose A postgraduate student from the School of Maths and Life Sciences contacted The Badger about his stolen laptop and jacket. He claims that the…
Should Black History Month be Abolished?
Yes William Cronk African, Caribbean, and Asian history should form a large part of the history taught in schools in this country. This, sadly, is not the case and modern…
Caroline Lucas Switches on 3,000 Solar Panels Across Campus
On Friday 13 October Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, switched on 3,000 newly installed solar panels. Ms Lucas was assisted by Jolyon Western, a Student Life Advisor, and Anna…
Increased Turnout in Students’ Union Elections
Students have elected their new representatives. Recent Students’ Union elections saw an increased turnout and a record number of international student candidates. Recent Students’ Union elections allowed students to choose…
The Saga of the European King Live Review
Upon arrival at O N C A the event looked like a private viewing of a production. The space was picturesque, eccentric and hosted at an art gallery. The room…
Artist Focus: Brighton Through The Eyes Of The Locals
This week we talked with Constance, A recent English Literature Graduate, who is now taking her masters at Sussex University. How has being in Brighton influenced your photography? Brighton influences…
Blade Runner 2049 – Review
Science fiction, at its best, should be intellectual, philosophical and innovative. It should be creative, but also reflective of our own reality. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is paradoxical in…
“Masterfully intelligent and endlessly creative” – ErictheFred Review
Darkly comic and technologically astounding, ErictheFred is a spectacular show encompassing everything that one hopes contemporary theatre can be. Profoundly moving one minute, outrageously silly the next, the performance twists…
Two new poker programs beat the pro’s
20 years on from the momentous event in Artificial Intelligence when a computer program, “Deep Blue”, beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov over an extended number of games, two new poker…
“Smashing distinctions between theatre and music” – Medea Electronica Preview
A week on from The Marlborough’s own modern re-working of Medea, The Old Market raises to the challenge with its own experimental take on the Ancient Greek tragedy. This time…
“Intimate and superbly important” – Digital Tattoo Preview
This week the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) hosts Digital Tattoo, a multi-media dance piece created by KDE Dance. Handily located beside the library on Sussex campus, the…
Southgate must bring back excitement to England in the lead up to Russia
With qualification secured for next summer’s World Cup Finals in Russia, how will England fare after such a disappointing tournament last time out? Harry Kane’s last minute winner against Slovenia…
Cambridge Rockers Alt-J at the Brighton Centre
A gig at the Brighton Centre is always a glittering affair and tonight’s offering of Leeds three-piece Alt-J proved to be exactly that. Hampshire rockers, Blaenavon, kick off proceedings with…