Sexy Preview
With Sexy, Vanessa Kisuule arrives at the Brighton Dome ready to ask some probing questions; what do you find sexy, are you sexy, and what does sexy even mean anyway?…
A Number Review
Identity politics is a pertinent issue in today’s society, and A Number exposes the struggle of defining identity in a categorically saturated world. In a futuristic narrative where cloning is…
BONER KILLER Review
On the 26th October I had the chance to go see Erin Markey’s BONER KILLER at The Marlborough. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a show with such an…
The Badger Meets…Coasts
On Friday 20th October, that institution of the Brighton music scene, The Haunt, played host to up-and-coming indie band Coasts, touring the UK in promotion of their second studio album…
King Nun: The Should-of-Been Headliners
King Nun and BLOXX opened for headliner INHEAVEN at The Haunt on the 18th in the last show on the UK leg of the top-billed band’s tour. And if we…
Forgotten Music: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John
One album that does not get the recognition it deserves is Elton John’s Album ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’. I know Elton John is not unheard of. In…
Nick Mulvey at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
It’s Thursday night, and me and a couple of hundred others are spending our evening watching the closing night of Nick Mulvey’s Wake Up Now tour at the De La…
Sussex scientists invent new touchscreen
Smashed phone screens may be a thing of the past as scientists at the University of Sussex have invented a new type of unbreakable flexible touchscreen made from silver and…
Black Lives Matter come to campus
A panel featuring leaders of the UK and US branches of Black Lives Matter are coming to campus on Tuesday 7th November. The Sussex Centre for America Studies and the…
Will audiences be the key to changing the mainstream film industry?
Content warning: sexual harassment To an extent, we are all complicit in maintaining the established power structures at the core of the Western film industry. Hollywood has been scrutinised, in…
Visual masterpiece and cult classic: a tribute to Drive
Usually after hearing nothing but positive reviews of a film, I watch it with a slight scepticism; scepticism that my reaction won’t match the high expectation set, but Nicholas Winding…
Theatre: A Woman’s Place?
The origins of theatre can be traced as far back as 532 BC during the classical Greek and Roman times. For most of that, it was men who were involved…
The Tories are pretty darn evil if you ask me
Johnbosco Nwogbo I think that a party that accepts and defends our present social and economic order, and sees no point in asking fundamental questions about it, is pretty darn…
Eight Days in Palestine: why living is the best form of resistence
‘Where did you go on your travels? And who did you meet?’ These two questions formed the thrust of the Israeli border security agent’s interrogation as we attempted to leave…
Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group Preview
The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA) will be hosting a discussion centring around the influential intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group on Friday 10 November. In partnership with the…
The Badger Speaks To… Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice have been a busy band touring for the past couple of months around the UK and America doing in-store gigs. They show us that performing live is still…
Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
Wolf Alice’s punk, 80s synth-pop, grunge, and folk influences meld together to form something original and non-imitative. ‘VOAL’ is bolder with lyrics that reach down to a more personal space…
UKIP MEP faces stringent requirements from USSU before guest speech
Sussex student society Liberate The Debate have been told by the University of Sussex Student’s Union (USSU) that their guest speaker must submit his speech for vetting before the event…
‘Safety Bus’ comes to campus to raise awareness of blind spots.
Brighton and Hove Council representatives, the fire service, police and B&H buses were on campus to raise awareness of blind spots for cyclists. They were giving out free hi-viz vests,…
“Merging science experiments and gawky comedy” – You Can’t Polish A Nerd Preview
Comedy-science trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd are heading to The Old Market as part of their UK tour: You Can’t Polish A Nerd. Merging science experiments and gawky comedy,…