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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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Margarita Month at Zouk: All style, less substance
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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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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: How To Keep Up With The Kardashians
Theatre
Alice Porter reviews ‘How To Keep Up With The Kardashians’, a UMDS production on body image and pop culture
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Review: Gorgon Westley’s Railway Circus (MIFTA)
Theatre
Sam Whitehouse reviews UMDS’s Gorgon Westley’s Railway Circus, which was performed at the Peer Hat as part of the MIFTAs
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Review: The Shadows (MIFTA)
Theatre
Alexia Pieretti reviews dark comedic social commentary The Shadows, performed at the King’s Arms as part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season
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Review: Nut (MIFTA)
Theatre
Ellie Klouda reviews Nut at the SU Theatre, which is part of UMDS’ MIFTA season
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Review: An Intervention (MIFTA)
Theatre
Scarlett Gorman reviews UMDS’ An Intervention, which was performed at John Thaw Studio as part of the MIFTAs
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Review: An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (MIFTA)
Theatre
Alexia Pieretti reviews An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the King’s Arms as part of MIFTA
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MIFTA Season: Do Not Disturb
Theatre
Ella Marsden reviews the final production in the Drama Society’s MIFTA season: Chloe Weare’s Do Not Disturb
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MIFTA Season: Love and Information
Theatre
Alexia Pieretti reviews Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the penultimate production in the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season
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MIFTA Season: Abandon Ship
Theatre
Alexia Pieretti reviews Abandon Ship as part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season
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MIFTA Season: Preview: The Greatest Tory Ever Told
Theatre
Anuli Changa talks to writer and co-director Roman Armstrong about the process of creating The Greatest Tory Ever Told
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MIFTA Season: We Have Sinned
Theatre
Amy Hagan reviews We Have Sinned, new student writing as part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season.
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Review: Spring Awakening
Theatre
Grace Currie admires the way in which the cast and creative team handle difficult themes in a challenging production. Part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season 2018
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Review: Myopia
Theatre
Jess Johnstone is drawn in to the anonymous world of Martha Treves’ Myopia. Part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season 2018.
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Review: Yellow Icing
Theatre
Jessica Wiehler reviews the beautifully realised off-kilter world of Rory Calland’s Yellow Icing. Part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season 2018
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Review: A Game of Two Halves
Theatre
Lily Brittain enjoys the witty dialogue and twist ending of Joe Large’s A Game of Two Halves. Part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA Season 2018
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Review: Alpha
Theatre
Jessica Wiehler gets sucked into the totalitarian dystopia of Zoe Kent’s Alpha, part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season 2018
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Review: Aldo
Theatre
Alana Cook revels in the whimsy of Lucio Gray’s Aldo, part of the Drama Society’s MIFTA season 2018
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MIFTA Preview 2018: Yellow Icing
Theatre
The first in a series of previews for this year’s Drama Society MIFTA season
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Review: Bad Company
Theatre
Annabel Cartwright reviews one of the picks of this years MIFTA performances; Bad Company, a comic drama by Tom Mackintosh
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