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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
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Cooking a week of TikTok recipes on a student budget
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
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Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, programming and being a first-time filmmaker: “There has to be room in the film world for all tastes”
16th April 2024
In conversation with Jane Giles, co-director of SCALA!!!, we discuss how she came to make the film, her career in programming and how the London cinema had lasting impact on young audiences
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Review: The Playstation Dreamworld by Alfie Bown
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Isaac Lucia reviews Alfie Bown’s Playstation Dreamworld using Lacanian psychoanalytical comparisons to evaluate existing game criticism
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Review: Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism
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Jack Blenkinsopp reviews The University of Manchester alumnus Alfie Bown’s newest fast and witty critical theory novel, Enjoying It: Candy Crush and Capitalism.
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