Month: March 2017

Professional Journalism Legging It

  Last Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May signed article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which starts the ball rolling for Brexit. You would think that this would be the most important news story in British newspapers this week – but no. The Daily Mail decided to run with a story on Tuesday which is…

Be Our Guest: “Beauty and the Beast” (2017)

Following the current trend of Disney live-action remakes, the latest edition has now hit theaters all over the world: “Beauty and the Beast” (2017). A tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, the film follows the all-too familiar love story of the beautiful and adventurous Belle and the cursed Beast. Set in a…

National Glamour Day Middelburg

This Saturday April 1, it’s National Glamour Day! Organised by one of the biggest women’s magazines of the Netherlands, Glamour Day is the ultimate day to go shopping and spend all your student allowance on fashion, beauty and accessories. When you take your copy of the April edition of Glamour magazine to stores and web…

UCR Musicians #4 – Thomas Hitchcock

My name is Thomas Hitchcock. I mainly play piano, the accordion, and I compose. What is your earliest music-related memory? When I was five, this kid, he was eight, showed me how to play Smoke on the Water. I thought he was really cool, being eight, and I was practicing those three or four notes…

Academia: A Tormenting Taboo

With this dissertation, we would like to raise our voices for a very common disorder on which rests an unspeakable taboo: Academia. This Intellectually Transmittable Disease (ITD) is relatively unknown, but affects many of us, as it is easily transmitted via prolonged contact with nerds. An open day might already be sufficient to contaminate the…

Synopsis of Two Recent Voices

Much of today’s music works in tune with the 21st century vogue, celebrating the ego and promoting dull highs of living. This can especially be seen in the tracks that surface in the charts, centering on the semantics of dance-floors, mood-pushers and libido. At the top of the chain stand some aloof mega-stars fishing in…

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