A Midsummer Night’s Dream by The Rubbish Shakespeare at Ordsall Hall, Review
The Rubbish Shakespeare Company demand raucous laughter, cheers and jeers in their kid-friendly production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Remembering Ourselves: The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché, Review
The reissuing of Carolyn Forché’s The Country Between Us brings to light the parallels between our present day and the violence of El Salvador from four decades ago
STONECHILD, Jesca Hoop, Review
With STONECHILD, the ever-unpredictable Jesca Hoop has created an album that lingers in the mind long after the closing bars
SPEAK: Salon, A New Space For Poetry In The North East
Durham’s Speak: Salon provides a welcome celebration of poetry in the North East
Google+: A Quiet Death Or A Subtle PR Move?
The rise and demise of Google+ may have passed by unnoticed, but the lack of concern shown by big tech towards their consumer’s privacy is still disconcerting
Brainforest
Someone, something, planted a seed someday. It waited there for some time, hidden under layers of memory, hindered by reason’s commands. Yet its roots expanded in the silence of thought
Catfish And The Bottlemen At The Manchester Arena, Review
Catfish and the Bottleman performed with an energy that drove their audience into a frenzy, even if it sometimes felt as though they were simply going through the motions
Apex Lengends, Review
Apex Legends takes squad-based gameplay to the next level and provides a refreshing new spin on an old genre
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain, Review
In Quiet, Susan Cain makes a stand for soft-spoken introverts in a world dominated by extroverts
What Resistance: Fall of Man Taught me About Game Design
Playing through 2006’s Resistance: Fall of Man makes you long for a time when complex, gritty storylines were not required, and pure and simple fun was prioritised