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How Noise Restrictions Are Changing the Face of Cambridge Events
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (781+ words) Sponsored content from Klispy Saturday September 12 2026, 7:17am Those rigid conditions are now being removed from premises licences in favour of event-specific risk assessments. Colleges may still use the former figures where their assessment finds them appropriate, but new noise management plans…...
What on Earth does one watch on their flight home?
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (145+ words) Scarlett Akiwumi discusses the surprisingly difficult art of choosing a film for the return journey from Cambridge Thursday September 10 2026, 4:00am “I was finally given the opportunity to catch up on the films I had not had the free time to watch,…...
Here’s what you missed on Glee
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (104+ words) Caitlin Newman suggests that the show’s soundtrack rises above its reputation Tuesday September 8 2026, 4:35pm “Being a fan of 2010s cult-classic Glee is seriously frowned upon in most music communities” “The show undeniably cast some of the best voices in the businesses” The…...
Peak performance: Instagram is now a totally performative platform
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (262+ words) Matilda Sheekey argues that Instagram has reached new levels of fakeness, as likes and reposts become publicly judged Monday September 7 2026, 6:13pm "When everything is public, nothing is beyond judgement" All this, I fear, has only eroded user authenticity further from the…...
The real post-festival blues
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (356+ words) With over 70% of England in drought, Reuben Tao examines the environmental consequences of your summer festival Sunday September 6 2026, 9:16pm The hundreds of festivals held in the UK every summer run on similar principles: build a temporary city for up to tens…...
The do’s and don’ts of a Bob Dylan cover
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (76+ words) Orla Howard gives a rundown of the best ways to emulate the musical genius Saturday September 5 2026, 11:51pm “To call it a ‘cover’ does not really do justice to the magic Hendrix brings to the song” “Baez’s version stands out: it is…...
Ailsa Marshall Lagos on taking her original musical to the Camden Fringe
1+ week, 3+ day ago (261+ words) Claire Pang meets one half of the creative team taking a musical from Cambridge to Camden Wednesday September 2 2026, 8:26pm Ailsa Marshall Lagos is an incoming second-year at Downing College, studying English. Along with Micha Winchester Plen, an incoming second-year Theology student…...
There’s more to life than Cambridge theatre, you know
1+ week, 3+ day ago (177+ words) Millie Wooler ponders what happens when we see plays post-Cambridge Wednesday September 2 2026, 5:16pm Amy Leach’s Brassed Off at Leeds Playhouse holds this image in suspension until the young actor playing Shane races between the two men and snatches up the fallen…...
News In Brief: Bombs, BBC dramas, and borrowed plates
1+ week, 5+ day ago (552+ words) Varsity Online A First World War artillery shell was discovered in the River Cam on Thursday (27/08). Treasure hunter Harvinii Richards, who discovered the explosive, said he initially mistook it for a spray can. Richards said “I realised it was an…...
From silver screen to stage
1+ week, 6+ day ago (199+ words) Seyan Dattani on the glitz, glamour, and charm of High Society Sunday August 30 2026, 8:19pm As the curtain rose on an all-singing, all-dancing army of servants traipsing around a sumptuous Newport mansion featuring extravagant double staircases, terraces, and swimming pools, my doubts…...