Archive for the ‘Arts + Entertainment’ Category
REVIEW: The September Issue
Friday, October 9th, 2009
“They had style, they had grace. Rita Hayworth gave good face…”
Being a self-confessed fashion-sceptic and a firm non-believer in the “label-orientated” couture culture that seems to engage so many of the female species in the past few decades, I must admit I was pleasantly surprised with documentarist RJ Cutler’s ”The September Issue”. An attempt to slice underneath the glossy layer of the fashion industry’s most iconic and influential “bible”; the spectacularly luxurious “Vogue”.
BY ORLA MACKLE
Tags: clothes, clothing, rusty zip
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ARTS: From Booker to Bookie
Monday, October 5th, 2009
A short introduction to the Man Booker prize 2009
This year’s Man Booker Prize is something of a veteran’s game, with bestsellers Sarah Waters with ghost story The Little Stranger, Young Writer of the Year 2008 Adam Foulds with The Quickening Maze, novelist Simon Mawer with his The Glass Room, as well as previous winners J.M Coetzee and A.S. Byatt on the shortlist. Competition on both the long and shortlists for the popular literature prize was particularly stiff this year, where a number of former winners and previously shortlisted novelists again nominated for their work. Conspicuously, popular writers and three-time nominees William Trevor and Colm Toíbín have failed to make the shortlist with Love and Summer and Brooklyn respectively, making the prize Irish-writer-free. This is disappointing news, considering the strong winning history of writers from Ireland, with John Banville and Anne Enright both winning in recent years. This year, the focus is less on ‘beautiful’ prosy works than on those with a gripping story at the heart of the book.
Tags: arts, Books, Reading
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ARTS: Try the QFT
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Fancy a trip to the cinema uninterrupted by the slurping of drinks and munching of popcorn? Want to challenge your mind beyond what the latest generic rom-com instalment at the average multiplex can offer? For a cinematic experience unparalleled in the rest of Belfast, QFT is a haven from the moment of entry. Surrounded by framed black and white images of scenes from classic movies, it’s clear that QFT is a movie lovers’ cinema, for appreciators of the pure exhilaration and joy brought by a good film.
Emma Creen
Tags: Art house, feature, film, QFT, retro, student
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SPORT: QUB’s got talent
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Media and sport go hand in hand in today’s society. Sport has become such a big part of our lives, and this may have a lot to do with much of it being covered in great detail by the media. Television mainly, allows us to follow a clubs success, and create our own judgements on their performance. So the issue of broadcasting Queen’s soccer and GAA matches, with the help of a live stream, to the Students Union has been raised quite recently.
Tags: pec, queen's university, Sport, The Gown
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GOWN GIVEAWAY: Win Noah and the Whale Tickets!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Open House Festival have given us tickets for two lucky students to see Noah and the Whale in Custom House Square THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT (23rd September)!
Tags: competition, festival, giveaw, Gown, house, music, newspaper, noah, noah and the whale, open, open house festival, qub, Queen's, queen's university, student, ticket, tickets, wale, whale, win
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