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Arts
- Artefact of the Week: The Toast Rack
- Art in Mancunia: Ryan Gear
- Modern Art: A victim of British traditionalism?
- Halima Cassell: Eclectica – Global Inspirations
- ART IN MANCUNIA
- Artefact of the Week: gauranga
- The Yard: The New Creative Hotspot in Manchester
- Review: It’s always 5pm somewhere
- Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing
- Lowry and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Artefact of the Week: Tony Wilson Mural
- Artefact of the Week on tour: Shoes on the Danube Bank
- Art and well-being: mindfully entering the new semester
- Art on the Sly presents The Black Market
- This Is The Female Gaze: Photography Exhibition
- Perspectives at The Whitworth: Thursday Lates Takeover in contemporary art
- Artefact of the Week: ‘Rain’ by Lemn Sissay
- Breaking the Occupation of the Mind: Art and Culture in Palestine
Books
- What’s On: Live Literature in Manchester
- Review: ‘Mouthful of Birds’ by Samanta Schweblin
- Opinion: Identity-based poetry is nothing new
- Review: We Must Be Brave by Frances Liardet
- Five great podcasts for book lovers
- Review: ‘Go Ahead In The Rain’ by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Review: Godsend by John Wray
- Spotlight: Science non-fiction
- Celebrated poet Mary Oliver dies age 83
- The Mancunion’s most anticipated books of 2019
- Opinion: Do we really need a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?
- Interview: Stuart Turton and Laura Purcell
- Review: ‘XX’ by Angela Chadwick
- The Cemetery of banned Books: Censorship in Kuwait
- Review: ‘I can handle university’ by Rachael Alexander
- Protests in Chile over Pablo Neruda’s legacy
- Young Identity: a platform for Manchester’s creatives
- Manchester students start new academic journal
Environment
- Brexit and the environment
- Manchester University under pressure to divest from fossil fuels
- Flipping amazing: whales and dolphins have “human-like” cultures
- Creative climate activists use paintings for protests
- Earth Week’s climate change plea
- Poorest countries aim to eliminate fossil fuels
- Can nature documentaries promote conservation?
- Will Murdoch pollute National Geographic?
Fashion & Beauty
- Opinion: A Step too Fyre? The Danger of Influencers
- Spring Into This Season’s Freshest Trends!
- How To Get Involved in Fashion Week without Leaving Manchester
- 5 Beauty products under £20 to self-gift this Valentine’s Day!
- Fashion Player of the Week: Iris Van Herpen
- Fashion Player of The Week: Jonah Hill
- A Roundup of The Fashion Bloggers Of Manchester
- A Roundup of London Fashion Week Men’s
- Raf Simons takes his Calvins off
- 25 Days of Glam with the Revolution Advent Calendar!
- A loveletter to Matthew Williams’ ALYX
- Are the curtains finally falling for Dolce & Gabbana?
- Talking To The Mason Collective
- Let’s talk surgery
- My Essentials for the ultimate winter wardrobe
- Sparkle Incoming! Hailey Baldwin X PrettyLittleThing is here!
- Coco Chanel: the ultimate feminist fashion icon
- H&M and Moschino’s coveted collaboration launches this week – and it’s coming to Manchester
Features
- How going 100 days sober can transform your life
- Rats to riches: interview with entrepreneur Eugene Lim
- Don’t Cramp My Style: breaking the silence of period poverty
- Behind the scenes at Fuse TV
- Interview: the Manchester students hiking to Everest Base Camp
- Fal-low: has the state of Fallowfield reached a new low?
- An Interview with ACORN Manchester
- The Creative Space: short film producer Lauren Evans
- #SkiSafe: stay safe in the snow
- Behind the scenes at Fuse FM
- Maintaining the Mancunian link with women’s suffrage
- An interview with Hattie Andrews: founder of the Politics Project
- An interview with Sister Supporter
- Falling out of favour with fast fashion
- The Creative Space: illustrator Tasha Wetton
- In Conversation With: Fatima Abid, General Secretary of the Students’ Union
- “Spice and Other Street Drugs” — A Manchester-led solution for a UK problem
- With One Voice: bringing arts and homelessness together
Film
- LevFlix: A community cinema at the heart of Levenshulme
- The Terrordome is here
- Opinion: The Oscars are the film industry’s worst enemy
- The Anthology Renaissance: A New Golden Age Of TV?
- Review: All Is True
- Howl’s Moving Castle
- Food and Film: A Banquet of Symbolism
- Is gender equality close to being achieved in Hollywood?
- Review: Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
- Review: Alita: Battle Angel
- Review: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Crazy Rich Asians is not a victory
- Review: Mary Queen of Scots
- How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World
- True Crime Story: The People vs. Film-Makers
- Review: Escape Room
- Review: Beautiful Boy
- Déjà-Review: Twilight
Food & Drink
- Food and Film: A Banquet of Symbolism
- The rise of communal dining
- Feed your mind: finding food in all the right places
- GUSTO: Manchester’s authentic Italian
- Want Not Waste: The SU’s eco-venture
- Review: Thai Smiles Café
- Packed lunches: quick, simple, healthy
- Review: The Bar
- Review: ‘Cravings’ by Chrissy Teigen
- WOLF: The not-so-Italian street food
- On the joy of a single ingredient: potatoes
- Bring & Mix: Moonshine Made to Order
- Review: ‘Polpo, A Venetian Cookbook’
- PLY’s winter cocktail menu
- Ever had a Lambrini cocktail? Try this!
- Comptoir Libanais: Lebanese Food Heaven
- Winter warmer: roasted garlic and tomato soup
- A brief history of the Curry Mile
Freshers' Guide
- No problem too big or small
- Manchester’s Alternative Freshers: Bars, Pubs and Nights Out
- Recipe: Beef Wellington with a Steak Diane sauce
- Live review: Jordan Rakei
- Combatting Freshers’ Flu
- Ways to Eat – the Freshers’ guide to nutrition
- What the future holds
- Quinoa Frittata, what a wonderful phrase
- Survey launched on the truth behind UK arts diversity
- Manchester travel deals
- The top night spots in Manchester
- The best live music venues in Manchester
- Review: National Football Museum
- Before You’re 30
- ‘Emergency2013’
- Bohemian Grove @ Islington Mill
- Banish those hangovers
- Welcome to the wonderful world of Food and Drink
Games
- The State of Skate: where are the games?
- Review: RIOT – Civil Unrest
- Why Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege is the best competitive shooter in 2019
- Metro Exodus shuns Steam in favour of Epic Games store
- Riot: Civil Unrest set to leave Early Access
- Gaming in Manchester 2019: a preview
- Manchester-based Odd Bug announce Tails of Iron
- Review: Firewatch – Nintendo Switch
- The Game Awards Roundup
- Interview: Everyone Can
- King of the North VI roundup
- Review: Hitman 2
- King of the North Qualifiers conclude in style
- Sony pulls out of E3
- Review: Dead Cells
- Bugs and B-movies: can polish spoil a game?
- Half-Life, 20 years on
- Why is Fallout 76 getting such a bad rap?
Investigations
- Mansion Point and the changing face of student accommodation
- Learning from Warwick: How does UoM deal with sexual assault?
- The students ready to fight back: does Fallowfield need a ‘first response’ group?
- Weathering the ‘perfect storm’ in education
- Students overpaying hundreds for housing as landlords inflate prices
- Uni finances rattle leadership
- ‘How much worse can it get?’ – local businesses struggle to plan for a Fallowfield without students
- Whitworth Park and the changing face of Oxford Road
- Investing in destruction: how much does the University of Manchester invest in fossil fuels?
- History departments branded ‘overwhelmingly white’
- Pollution, Crime, Homelessness: The State of the City
- Sex & drugs & rock ‘n’ roll – where UoM invests your fees
- Nottingham maintains support for misogyny as a hate crime
- 9/10 students think Greater Manchester Police don’t do enough to prevent hate crimes against women
- Manchester’s housing crisis: Is gentrification ripping the soul out of the former Cottonopolis?
- Fallowfield’s food under the microscope
- Students unhappy at soaring Vice Chancellor pay
- Clapgate: What do you think?
Lifestyle
- For the love of money
- The fight against FGM
- Sexpress yourself
- Three Peaks Challenge
- A 21st century ghost story
- A squeaky clean take on lifestyle influencers
- Five hundred friends and no-one to talk to
- In defence of the New Year’s resolution
- Outing the past: LGBT History Month in Manchester
- A guide on choosing a student property and reporting issues
- The backside of Instagram: why our Monday motivators are all the same
- Celebrating the festival of lights
- Sexual harassment is epidemic in nightclubs
- Fight period poverty with ‘Once A Month’
- The bigger the better? Unmasking the ugly face of male fitness
- The women who shaped our city
- In conversation with: SHAG
- Dating Apps: do they contribute to the culture of anonymity?
Music
- Opinion: Sexism remains an issue in the music industry
- George, Ravi, and the rise of ‘Raga Rock’
- Hot Right Now: Sports Team
- Record Reappraisal: Blur – Blur
- Just Give Me a Reason: Why is Pink worthy of her BRIT award?
- Everything you need to know about The BRIT Awards 2019
- Album Review: What Chaos Is Imaginary by Girlpool
- In Conversation with Queen Zee
- In Conversation with FEET
- Live Review: The Amazons
- Preview: Parklife 2019
- Live Review: Wild Nothing
- Live Review: Live/Wire, The ACDC Show
- Hot Right Now: Barny Fletcher
- Album Review: Nina Nesbitt – The Sun Will Come Up, The Seasons Will Change
- Live Review: IN-SENSÉ
- Album Review: Unfortunately, Terror Jr – Terror Jr
- Live Review: Ghetts
News
- Ex-Manchester professor charged over racial abuse of neighbour
- Manchester’s employment level to surpass London’s following Brexit
- SU branded ‘unhelpful’ for failing to support NSS boycott
- Construction crisis in Manchester City Centre
- Fewer students from state-run schools enrolling at uni
- Austerity prevents Manchester from becoming Northern Powerhouse
- UoM study says at-risk women should be screened for breast cancer earlier
- Reclaim the Night returns
- UoM begins search for North Campus development partner
- UK Vice-Chancellor pay soars to 13 times median wage
- Universities advised to ignore migration targets
- UoM student wins prestigious undergraduate award
- New electric buses to hit Greater Manchester
- Extinction Rebellion supported by SU with 2% majority
- Concern as UoM schools of Social Sciences and Law set to merge
- Beetham Tower in disrepair
- Authorities seize 100 shisha pipes from Curry Mile shisha cafés
- Manchester Pride Bosses uphold decision to escalate ticket prices following backlash from fans
Opinion
- The Lion for Change: Recognising the power of adverts
- Facebook vs The Law
- OFOC: A campaign for a different kind of Britain
- Pigeonholed by the puffa jacket
- The Lion for Change: Recognising brands’ ability to facilitate social change
- Guaido in Venezuela is undemocratic, so is supporting him
- The other side of a Brexit no-deal
- Racism, actually
- University’s worth it
- What is ‘political correctness’ for – apart from enraging Piers Morgan?
- The cold, hard, plastic truth
- Listen to your Public!- Where Party leadership is going wrong
- The Labour Party has fallen short
- The profit mine of student housing
- Masculinity, meaning, and THAT Gillette advert.
- All work and no play – a 10-week slog
- Rigevidon, the nightmare contraceptive
- No Hablo Ingles – the irresistible rise of Spanish pop
Science & Technology
- UK prepares to become carbon-negative
- Gravitational waves: round three
- The Internet of Things: who really needs a smart toaster?
- UoM student wins prestigious undergraduate award
- Private money in space
- Quantum computers: a reality
- The big problem of micro-plastics in Manchester
- UoM researchers develop cheap graphene inks
- Research suggests babies can pick out words in speech
- The periodic table: 150 years in the making
- Exclusive: Inside the Unit with emus on treadmills
- Chinese New Year special: science and the pig
- New Year’s resolution hack
- Science research has caused Spice to become such a big problem
- A Smarter Manchester: How the City is Embracing Smart Technology
- Manchester PhD student dances her thesis
- Manchester’s Green Future
- Radio bursts from deep space puzzle astronomers
Societies
- So you want to start up your own society?
- A Strawberry Jam is a bloody big success
- Rainbow of Culture comes to Manchester Academy
- Event Preview: Disco WIMferno
- Five reasons to pick up your old instrument and join a music society
- Manchester Charity Fashion Show looks for models
- New year, new society?
- Event Preview: A Strawberry Jam
- Society Spotlight: Content Creators
- In conversation with: the Manchester Debating Union
- Refresh yourself with a new society
- A Flamingo Called Frank
- Event Preview: ArtBox 2
- Introducing: Financial Freedom Society
- All I want for Christmas is something to do
- Meet the Athletics Club
- University Women’s Rugby supporting Stonewall UK
- Meet Young Identity
Sport
- Squat, bench, deadlift: Meet the Powerlifting Society
- Champions League preview: Manchester City
- Kyler Murray: to MLB or not to MLB
- England win marred by homophobia
- Manchester United handed “reality check” against PSG in the Champions League
- Spurs cruise past Borussia Dortmund
- Six Nations: England thrash France
- Six Nations round-up: England triumph over Ireland
- British Runner Susannah Gill wins World Marathon Challenge
- Defensive masterclass or offensive shambles: Super Bowl LIII
- England suffer embarrassing defeat in West Indies Test Series
- Manchester’s University sport – a round-up
- Sergio Garcia was feeling the heat at the Saudi International
- Transfer deadline day!
- Nine games unbeaten for Solskjaer with PSG looming
- Former WBA world super-middleweight George Groves retires from boxing
- 2019 World Para Swimming Championships stripped from Malaysia, after banning Israel
- Djokovic prevails in Clash of the Titans Australian Open final
Theatre
- The Future of Contact Theatre
- Review: Twelfth Night
- Preview: David Judge’s Sparkplug at HOME
- Review: Trial by Laughter
- Review: Jersey Boys
- Review: Ladybones
- Preview: Ken Cheng’s Best Dad Ever
- Review: Cuts of the Cloth
- Review: The Rocky Horror Show
- Review: The Frou Frou Club
- Review: The Forest of Forgotten Discos
- Review: National Theatre Live’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
- Review: ‘Wicked’ Touring Company
- Review: ‘Chicago’
- Review: ‘The Producers’
- Preview: Lady Wildflower presents ‘The Frou Frou Club’
- Review: ‘SIX’ The Musical
- Review: ‘First Time’
Uncategorised
- Preview: Isle of Wight Festival reaches its 50th year
- 2018 Festival Guide
- Life after university – choosing your graduate home
- ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ is a disgrace to our society
- Should I live at home or in halls?
- Recipe: Lamb Methi
- Exec results night live blog
- Recipe: Garlic Chicken Schnitzel
- E3 Look Ahead
- MMG presents: The official SU hustings
- UMMTS wins top awards at NODA
- Free Ahed Tamimi protest
- ‘Youthquake’ more anecdotal than fact, survey suggests
- Recipe: Christmas Pizzas
- Letter from the Editor – DO NOT PUBLISH
- Review: Armenia Taverna
- Live Review: BICEP at WHP
- Review: Abode’s Sunday Roast
