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Boys in the Band Review

Written by Kristian Harris and Sarah Kingsmill Image Credit: Darren Bell Boys in the Band is a play originally written by Mart Crowley, and was first shown in 1968, where…

Kings Of Leon, WALLS: Review

By: Daniel Parker Seasoned rockers Kings of Leon triumphantly return with their seventh studio album that experiments with the traditional and the unconventional as the Kings battle to shape themselves…

U.S. Colleges: Student Utopias or Microcosms of a Troubled Nation?

By: Felix Thompson From first-hand experience, I can tell you it’s true, it’s all true. It’s just like in the movies. The American college experience really is all beer pong…

Presidetial Debate Spoofs

Every Presidential election gets a lot of media coverage, but this time around viewers actually broke audience records. The first Republican debate on August 4th — starring the one and…

The Absurdity of Modern Politics

It is fair to say that we are living in troubled times. Not only troubled though, they are becoming increasingly absurd, this absurdity personified by Donald Trump and his ridiculous…

The Power Of Two

The surge of musical duos rising to fame in recent years has enveloped all genres. It is often the simplicity and rawness of their music that attracts people to a…

Review: Bestival 2016

Miriam Steiner It feels a lot like you’re cheating, going to a festival as press. With access to two clean press portaloos and charging points, and bumping in to two…

Cast Iron Theatre’s ‘Six and a Bit Plays’: Review

By: Sydney Jennett On a side of Brighton few students go, though a mere twenty minute walk from the clubs of Old Steine, is a small pub and B&B, named…

Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Review

By: Becca Hafford & Emma Taylor This adaptation of Truman Capote’s classic 1958 novella, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, brought by Nikolai Foster has arrived in Brighton. Every seat in The Theatre…

Black Artists Snubbed At The Awards

Lauren Wade Music Editor In celebration of Black History Month, we explore the struggles black artists and musicians have faced in the past when it comes to fitting in and…

Interview: Deap Vally

Lauren Wade Music Editor In an age where music is taking serious inspiration from decades gone by, sometimes it’s refreshing to see a rock duo who strip it back with…

Antonios Kotsonias – ‘Transporting Hope’

Antonio Kotsonia is a third year Media Practice student at Sussex. Antonios’ interest for photography started at the age of seventeen. At a time when he was trying to find…

My Scientology Movie: Review

Much-loved British journalist, Louis Theroux made his big screen debut recently with his feature-length documentary My Scientology Movie. In the wake of Theroux’s turn to darker subject matter – such…

October @ Patterns

Patterns brushed aside Brighton’s summer hangover with a stellar first week of October, countering the shortening hours of sunshine with a vibrant seven days of gigs and DJ nights. Julio…

Rise of the Champagne Student

With the Which? University survey 2016 placing Sussex in the top four most politically active universities in the country alongside SOAS, Oxford and LSE; previous hurrahs such as the protests…

The Cow Restaurant Review

Taking a break from the roast-dinner-rush of Sunday lunchtime, The Cow, a spacious bar/ restaurant in the heart of Seven Dials transforms their evening kitchen into a cheap and cheerful…

Homeland Season 5

Premiered on October 2015, the fifth season of the award winning Showtime series Homeland, once again left us hanging as Carrie Mathisen looks into the light of the opening door…

Jamie-T at the O2 Brixton

Ten minutes before the doors opened at seven, the queue for Jamie-T’s Sunday concert went around the street and more, as crowds of people arrived in what seemed to be…

Art for Art’s Sake

In a culture where we are inundated with information about celebrities and the fairly private aspects of their personal lives, should we let this information and scandal influence our experience…

Trailer Trash

With our youth unemployment at staggering lows and our financial security in jeopardy, now is a time where we need to find solace in the escapist wonders of cinema. Unfortunately,…