Archive for the ‘Features’ Category
FEATURES: Kids’ TV – Still Live and Kicking?
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
When you look back on your childhood and early adolescence, there’s a big chance that many of your brightest memories will contain the hypnotic tinge of the television set. Most of us will remember those Saturday mornings, sneaking downstairs before everyone else, to sample a dose of Live and Kicking, SM:TV Live or Den TV. Even now we can’t shake off the influence of Dustin the Turkey or the Animaniacs, as someone on those nights out takes it upon themselves to be the comedian extraordinaire, playing their well-worn repertoire of impersonations and recycled jokes garnered from the shows that made them giggle all those years ago.
BY ROMANO MULLIN (more…)
Tags: Gown, newspaper, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, Romano Mullin, student, students, su, The Gown
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FEATURES: The Balls on the Falls
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Standing at 37.5 metres high and 30 metres wide, ‘RISE’ is the largest public artwork piece ever commissioned in Northern Ireland. Construction was completed in September 2011 and the mega-structure can be found on the Broadway Roundabout.
BY MATT GILLEN (more…)
Tags: Arts Council, Belfast City Council, Bog Meadows, Matthew Gillen, newspaper, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, RISE, student, students, su, The Falls, The Gown, Wolfgang Buttress
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HOOD
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Another fortnight, another chance to listen to Gary Spedding. This time it was at the Palestine Roundtable discussion. There were more people at it than Council, and different people at that, so was an audience that one could not resist.
BY THE HOOD
Tags: Business Club, Countdown, Fiona Kidd, Gary Spedding, Jedi Jim, Jim Eastwood, KFC, Niall McShane, Nigel Macauley, student council, The Hood, Tyler McNally, UUP
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FEATURES: Aussie artist Belfast exhibition
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Whoever said Detroit was the city to be for arts and creativity has clearly never been to Belfast. In the wake of the EMA Awards, the unveiling of the new Titanic museum, and a number of art venues popping up all over the city, it’s clear that Belfast is well-known for more than just its turbulent past. Australian-born and Belfast-based artist Teelah George recently launched a collection of her latest artwork at the Lawrence Street Workshops, located just off-campus from Queen’s University.
BY JANETTE LOUGHLIN (more…)
Tags: Janette Loughlin, Teelah George
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OPINION: Frankie my dear, we don’t give a damn.
Monday, November 21st, 2011
Finally, the cruel joke is over. Frankie Cocozza, no-one’s favourite wannabe rock star, has been unceremoniously kicked off the X Factor, after breaking one of the show’s ‘golden rules’. What that rule may have been seems a little hazy, but the papers are all screaming ‘cocaine Cocozza’ so I think we can deduce the answer from that, even if half the country couldn’t work out that little Frankie is a few notes short of the full chorus.
BY ROMANO MULLIN (more…)
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FEATURES: An Indian adventure for a Queen’s student
Monday, November 7th, 2011
An exchange programme for the last 4 years has been running at Queen’s university called the PMI-2: Strategic Alliances and Partnerships scheme. Its aim is to take a group of students to either India or China for academic and cultural exchange, and in the process take part in university life and complete some research. I’m a 24 year old student from Wales just waiting to graduate from a full-time Masters in Social and Community Development, and over the summer I spent a month, along with four other students and a member of Queen’s academic staff, in the Indian southern state of Andhra Pradesh and the city of Hyderabad.
BY JONATHAN EVANS (more…)
Tags: Andhra Pradesh, China, Dharavi, Features, Gown, Hyderabad, India, Jonathan Evans, mumbai, newspaper, Northern Ireland, PMI-2: Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, qub, QUBSU, Queen's, queen's university, Social and Community Development, student, students, The Gown
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FEATURES: There’s Something About Mary
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The recent groundbreaking visit of the British head of state to the Republic of Ireland demonstrated the real power and influence that the role of Irish president now has. Through the presidencies of “The Marys”, Robinson and McAleese, the presidency has been transformed from a retirement present for long serving politicians, peppered with appearances at Sporting occasions and primary school visits, to a proactive role which has become burdened with presenting a progressive and employable Ireland in the midst of this global mess. No small task then for whoever would step into the shoes of the wonderful Mary McAleese. There is the “People’s President” Martin McGuinness, The “People’s President“ Gay Mitchell and the “People’s President” Michael D. Higgins.
BY NATHAN MORROW MURTAGH (more…)
Tags: Dana, David Norris, Features, Gay Mitchell, Irish President, Martin McGuinness, Mary Davis, Michael D. Higgins, Nathan Morrow Murtagh, Sean Gallagher
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