NEWS: McGibbon and Lo urge students to be extra vigilant after alleged rape
BY KERRI-ANNE CAMPBELL
VP Welfare Adam McGibbon and MLA Anna Lo have spoken out about the latest alleged sex attack in the University area. Police are investigating an alleged rape which took place on Saturday morning. It was reported that a woman was viciously attacked by two men in an alleyway between Cromwell Road and Ireton Street between 12:30am and 1:30am. PSNI are currently appealing to anyone who was in the area at the time to come forward.
July 28th, 2010 | Comments (8)
The Gown website survey: Have your say
The Gown website, replacing our old Blogger site, has been running for almost a year now. As we approach the start of a new year at Queen’s, The Gown want to know what you think of the website, so that we can continue to improve the experience it provides. Please click on the link below and fill out the short survey- it’s perfect if your in the mood for procrastination: The Gown website survey: Have your say on your student news website. http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=KMDNJH_68ddc679
July 27th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Toy Story 3
Flashing back to the roots of the Toy Story narrative, we are treated to all the same aspects of warm and heartfelt storytelling that makes its predecessors such treasured classics. With a day-care nursery as the main setting of this plot, there’s the opportunity for Pixar’s creative minds to have a lot more fun developing so many new characters and re-working those who have already found firm places in our hearts. Amongst the newly introduced are a clown called Chuckles, the sinister Lotso Hugs bear who smells of strawberries but is far from sweet, a gambling octopus, a monkey with cymbals who takes the role of surveillance, and Big Baby the heavyweight. BY LAUARA SHEARER
July 27th, 2010 | Comment (1)
ARTS: Open House Festival preview
The Open House Festival comes rolling into Belfast this Autumn with its most impressive line up to date. The 12th annual incarnation of the Festival will take place from 7th – 12th September 2010, throughout the arts & cultural flavoured Cathedral Quarter. The main festival venue will be the new 2,000 capacity festival marquee in Custom House Square – the biggest music marquee ever to be erected on the site. BY CHRIS JOHNSON
July 27th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Gainsbourg
If the name Serge Gainsbourg doesn’t ring a bell, then you might recognise one of his most famous musical achievements via Jane Birkin’s sensual whisperings, ‘Je t’aime, oh oui, je t’aime’. France’s iconic maverick is brought to the silver screen by graphic novel artist Joann Sfar in a style that is in a word sublime. Bringing to life the innermost workings of the visionary Gainsbourg’s mind and madness, Sfar has created a masterpiece. BY LAURA SHEARER www.queensfilmtheatre.com
July 26th, 2010 | No Comments
NEWS: Letters to the Editor
The Gown is now accepting ‘letters to the editor’. If you have any issues or grievances which you would like to draw to the attention of Gown readers, please free to email the editor at editor@thegown.org.uk
July 26th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Predators
The beginning of Predators is promising, whether you’re familiar with the character or not. A sense of fear is sparked immediately upon the estranged groups’ arrival to the densely unchartered jungle terrain. The dramatic tension from the typically thematic music relates to both the jungle and the unknown, with the combination of higher metallic moans and grumbling jungle drums certainly createsing a wonderfully heavy atmosphere. It’s the perfect introduction to the fast paced action adventure thriller. It doesn’t take long to develop the weak and stereotypical personas of the group, and thus it is obvious from the outset that the main focus will be on the fight and escape sequences. BY LAURA SHEARER
July 26th, 2010 | No Comments
REVIEW: Breathless
Jean Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’ was recently re-released and played in the QFT. Having seen both it and Jim McBride’s poorly reviewed 1983 remake recently, I began to wonder which was better. Godard’s original is regularly hailed as the masterpiece of the French New Wave, slick and cool, while full of subtext and vigorously innovative. To many, McBride’s decision to remake ‘Breathless’ was sheer egotism, on a par with Werner Herzog’s well-meaning remake of Nosferatu. You have to admit, it’s a brave thing to remake a highly regarded masterpiece and, like Herzog, McBride pulls it off. BY MATTHEW MCKERNAN
July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
COMMENT: Violence on the Twelfth – Treat the cause, not the symptoms
The Orange Order’s Twelfth parades have again been marred by violence. Rioting occurred on Belfast’s Ormeau Road on the twelfth itself and disturbances in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast continued days afterwards. This has rightly been condemned by the police, by Assembly members from both sides of the community, and has been attributed to “dissident republicans” by Sinn Fein. Duncan McCausland, Assistant Chief Constable of the PSNI, has promised that “significant arrests” will be made. Two men, aged sixteen and twenty, have already appeared in court over their involvement in the riots. BY BEN FINCH
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July 21st, 2010 | Comments (54)
NEWS: Mixed reactions to graduate tax proposals
In a major speech yesterday, Business Secretary Vince Cable has suggested that the current top-up fees system should be replaced with an alternative graduate tax. This graduate tax would see students pay a marginally higher income tax than non-graduates. While details have not yet emerged, student leaders hope that the Cable proposals will mirror those of the NUS ‘Blueprint’. In this document, the NUS outlined a similar idea, where the more a graduate earns, the more they pay back – but even then it is a small percentage at 2.5%. BY EMMA GALLEN
July 16th, 2010 | Comments (23)
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