By Cormac McCarthy Next month will mark the 1000th week in a row that the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction has rested in the top 100 soundtrack album charts. An incredible feat of an estimated 8 million units sold, it speaks to the enduring quality not just of the songs themselves but also to…
By Nathan Carey, Food Editor In recent years there has been a surge in popularity of fermented foods such as sourdough breads, artisan beers, kefirs and kimchi. There is no doubt you’ve walked past some new hip bakery selling nothing but sourdough treats and kombucha to wash them down. For thousands of years humans have…
By Nathan Carey Katsu may just be one of my favourite dishes to make at home. While it was once daunting, modifying the recipe for a home kitchen made it so much more approachable. Traditionally Katsu is a piece of protein that is coated in breadcrumbs and lightly fried (sounds good right?). In Japan you…
By Nathan Carey It’s 2022 and you’re still drinking dairy? The rise of alternative plant milks seems almost unstoppable over the last 5 years, and while here in the West the endeavour may appear like a new craze, Eastern countries have been using non-dairy ‘milks’ for centuries. The earliest record of a plant based milk…
By Emily Osborn *This article has mentions of homophobia, transphobia, sexual assault, and other topics that may cause upset, please proceed with caution* “When a man and a woman love each other very much…” Most of us are familiar with this wonderful opening line from sex education talks in schools across the country. While education…
By Cian Pierce This February 10th-15th marks the second annual celebration of #DouglassWeek! Frederick Douglass moved his family to Washington, D.C. from Rochester, N.Y. in 1872. 150 years later, #DouglassWeek will remember and celebrate the importance of the Douglass family. Douglass week is a collaborative event series that celebrates the arrival of Frederick Douglass in…
By Cian Pierce One of the main characters of the Stephen King novel ‘The Green Mile’ is John Coffey (played in the movie adaptation by the late Michael Clarke Duncan). Coffey finds himself on death row, wrongfully convicted for the “killing” of two white girls, but he possesses enormous supernatural powers. While in jail he…
By Cian Pierce This Black History Month, I thought it only appropriate to highlight some Black excellence through the following creatives you should check out! Emma Dabiri Emma Dabiri is a TV presenter, author, PhD researcher and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS. Her book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ is an incredible…
By Claire Watson Reality star Molly-Mae Hague says “if you want something enough then you can achieve it. It just depends to what lengths you want to go to get where you want to be in the future.” The Workers and the Star Late June 2020, it is revealed that at the height of the…
Written by Daniel Gavilovskis Video games are considered the second most effective form of mind control after narco-hypnosis and, like narco-hypnosis, much of what makes games powerful goes on in the mind’s unconscious. This is true of any story. Have you ever noticed how in The Matrix, while Neo is getting given out to by…