"Keep the Cat Free"

17.05.2012

FELIX

The student voice of Imperial College London since 1949

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If you read nothing else this week...

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman   When asked to write a book review for Felix, I found it incredibly difficult to choose what to write about.  My favourite books are classics, but since ...
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  • Thursday January 27, 2011

The clothes you’re not supposed to wear

High fashion is not like anything you know or have seen in normal society. What is its link to the fashion worn by the ordinary clothes-wearing public? I have no ...
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  • Thursday January 13, 2011

Blown away by the Soleil

Totem. Avid Inception fans will immediately think back to the object with which Dom Cobb differentiates between the real and the imaginary. Did it or did it not stop spinning? ...
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Swinging from the chandeliers

It all started in the early Sixties, in New York, of course. The clear delineations between artists and dancers were broken down and the Judson Dance Theatre came into being. ...
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  • Friday January 7, 2011

The Art of the Album

The South Bank’s OXO Tower is known for its vertiginous height, but resting at its base at river level is a small gem of a gallery, currently home to ‘The ...
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  • Friday December 17, 2010

Waugh: What is it good for?

It’s in theatres like the Old Red Lion, that remind me why I review plays instead of just going to the see them. They want me to like them, and ...
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  • Sunday December 12, 2010

FELA! Leave your shy outside

Musician. Freedom fighter. Sax, trumpet and keyboard player. Polygamist. Fela Ransome Kuti, the Father of Afrobeat, was something of a phenomenon. His infectious and politically charged music was quick to ...
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  • Sunday December 12, 2010

The Ballet

I was fifteen when I first went to the ballet. It was Onegin at the Royal Opera House, a birthday present from my mum to me and my brother. I didn’t ...
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  • Thursday December 9, 2010

If you read nothing else this week...

From time to time, I fancy myself as a bit of a writer. The hubris quickly passes as I flounder at the end of the first paragraph but the desire ...
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  • Thursday December 9, 2010

A mind-blowing Stroboscopic Light Pod

James Turrell’s Bindu Shards was what I can only describe as an ‘experience’. I managed to obtain an elusive time slot for the exhibit which I have read elsewhere as ...
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  • Thursday December 9, 2010