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Here’s what you missed on Glee
5+ day, 14+ 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…...
News In Brief: frightening findings, firewomen, and free festivals
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (44+ words) A light-hearted round up of this week’s stories, from a musical theatre performance to developments in astronomy Sunday September 6 2026, 4:38pm A fiery musical comes to Cambridge An ‘Out of the Ordinary’ festival News In Brief: Bombs, BBC dramas, and borrowed plates...
The do’s and don’ts of a Bob Dylan cover
1+ week, 1+ day 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, 4+ 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…...
The death of the artsy ‘third space’? | Varsity
1+ week, 5+ day ago (89+ words) Freya Roodhouse offers Cambridge’s museums as a solution to the dying third space Tuesday September 1 2026, 1:07pm “We must expand our view to those other contenders that make a bid for artistic attention” “We should seize the third spaces freely provided for…...
When the band tries much harder than the audience
2+ week, 1+ day ago (212+ words) Rohan Teelock-Gaya recounts his experience of THE HARA at Cambridge’s Portland Arms Saturday August 29 2026, 3:05pm “THE HARA are, in one friend’s words, Machine Gun Kelly if he played a Strandberg” “THE HARA are exactly what’s needed in the metal/alt-rock scene…...
Much Ado in Verona: A very Shakespearean summer
3+ week, 13+ hour ago (134+ words) Lottie Erratt-Rose reflects on her experiences at Verona’s Shakespeare Summer School Sunday August 23 2026, 5:31pm As a first year English undergrad, I spent most of Easter term reading and writing about all things Shakespeare. To take breaks from studying, I took part…...
Classist slander or a whole new genre?
3+ week, 1+ day ago (313+ words) Millie Wooler takes on ‘Indie poo’, TikTok’s latest musical insult Saturday August 22 2026, 5:57pm If their Instagram is anything to go by, it took The K’s more than a week to come down from their recent appearance in Piece Hall in Halifax…...
Arts promotion in the age of Instagram
3+ week, 3+ day ago (58+ words) Aisling Rogers investigates the consequences of social media’s developing role in creating and advertising the arts Thursday August 20 2026, 7:42pm “The epicentre of the Cambridge arts and social scene is now somehow Instagram” “It fascinates me how such a supremely personal art…...
Unemployed in summertime? Here’s your soundtrack
3+ week, 5+ day ago (51+ words) Bibi Boyce has the perfect summertime tunes to accompany an unemployed vacation Tuesday August 18 2026, 7:34pm “Elbow’s ‘Any Day Now’ encapsulates the urge to broaden horizons” “Don’t dwell on the lack of your to-do list, choose boredom” Is the driver always the…...