Sex Education – The Best Type of Protection Ask anyone about their school experience with sex and relationship education and most people would be able to regale embarrassing stories of maths teachers awkwardly trying to manoeuvre noncompliant condoms over bananas to the amusement of many giggling school children. While most […]
Monthly Archives: April 2018
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The Gran Adventure – Backpacking Asia with Grandma Nathanel Creson and his last-remaining grandparent wanted to get to know each other better and together they decided to take a four-month backpacking trip across Asia. Now, this isn’t your ordinary vacation. The 26-year-old former Stirling student is venturing across six countries […]
The Sport that Sweeps the Nation “It is chess on ice…albeit it’s a lot more difficult to move your rook from K2 to K4.” That was how Graeme Thompson, British Curling performance director, described the tactical intricacies of curling. However, when I stepped onto the intu Braehead ice at the […]
The Big Feed Street Food Market Returned to Govan Scotland’s biggest indoor street food market started on Saturday, bringing various cuisine options to Glasgow alongside drinks and music. The street food market was open on Saturday and Sunday and will return next weekend on May 5-6. The event is generating […]
Review: A Quiet Place As you may expect from the title, this was not a film to bring noisy snacks into the cinema. A Quiet Place wasted no time with explanations or filler as the film jumped right into Day 89 of the post-apocalyptic story of survival. Fearsome wendigo-alien creatures […]
On the Outside Looking In The names in this article have been changed to respect the anonymity of those involved I wrapped my small, icy fingers around a bitter cup of black coffee in the hope of thawing my hands and regaining some sensation. I looked down at my cupped […]
Simon Community Scotland Crowned the Winners of Glasgow’s First Homeless Hackathon Homeless charity Simon Community Scotland and a tech-savvy team of experts were voted Glasgow’s first homeless hackathon winners last weekend at Citizen M hotel. The team’s winning app, RSPV Live, will enable Simon Community Scotland’s workers and volunteers to […]
Glasgow Goes Big for the 150th Anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh An exhibition is being held in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery until 14 August 2018 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s birth. The exhibition Making the Glasgow Style showcases the life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh […]
Climate Change Discussions in Glasgow Spurred on by Earth Day Members from eco-groups around Glasgow came together for the Earth Day Lunch & Talk in Glasgow City Chambers on 20 April 2018. Attendees were members from Glasgow City Council’s Sustainable Glasgow project, the University of Glasgow’s Student Sustainability Team GUEST […]
Glasgow International Festival: Bringing Art and the Public Together Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, Glasgow International Festival (GI) organises a host of free events across the city and runs from 20 April-7 May 2018. Art lover and GI volunteer Dexter Thornhill said: “It’s a festival not only for the […]
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Competition Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year (IAPY) will relocate from its home in the Royal Observatory, London to a new and more spacious location for its 10th anniversary. Project manager Alysia Calderwood said the special anniversary exhibition will be held in […]
This Game Called ‘Obesity’ You Only Win When You Lose Is your Body Mass Index above 30? Well, it might be time to check your weight. BMI is simply a key index for relating weight to height, thus, a person’s weight in kilograms is divided by their height in metres […]
Review: Fashion Foundry Exhibition 2018 Located on the second floor of Scotland’s Centre for Design and Architecture, also known as The Lighthouse, is a small but stylish exhibition from Fashion Foundry. Featuring diverse creations by six emerging Scottish fashion designers, the Fashion Foundry exhibition gives an insight into the creative […]
The New Wave of Politics Women. It has become a powerful word this year, especially in politics. Starting in 2016 with Hilary Clinton running for President of the United States of America, to Theresa May’s election as Prime Minister of Great Britain, German Chancellor Angel Merkel re-election and Nicola Sturgeon’s […]
Diversity: The New Fashion Trend In many minds, the fashion industry is regarded as the pinnacle of acceptable beauty. It constructs an image of perfection and says “This. This is what you should be.” But what if you aren’t? What if you search this parade of primed and polished porcelain […]