Editors: Max Smolarski and Ciara Teefey   A town, famous for its star-studded cultural lineage in literature for names like Virginia Woolf, Patrick Hamilton, Horace Smith and Rudyard Kipling, did not foresee the aftermath the growing and aging population will have on community reading spaces. A protest outside of Rottingdean Library. Credit: Y. Sorochynskyi Since February, a proposal made by the Brighton and Hove City Council to close down Hollingbury, Westdene, and Rottingde

Last month, the fifth and final season of one of Netflix’s most popular Stranger Things premiered. It had been 3 years since the last season ended, which left fans with bated breath to learn about the fates of the main characters and everyone in Hawkins after the gates to the Upside Down were finally opened.

I Who Have Never Known Men is a 1995 dystopian novel by Jacqueline Harpman, in which the young female narrator has no recollection of the world that decays above her. From the novel's outset, the reader is immediately immersed in the setting of an underground cage containing thirty-nine imprisoned women. Each woman holds varying knowledge of the world above and has no idea how they got there.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of artists across Brighton and Hove opening their doors to the public to showcase their work. This tradition was started in 1982 by Ned Hoskin. Each year, since it began, artists have continued to join in to showcase their personal and private studios, with 64 open houses for the public to view this year alone.

Editors: Ciara Teefey Spanning over two days, this year on the 7 th - 8 th  November, Mutations Festival is a yearly multi-venue festival in Brighton, showcasing 87 amazing artists from experienced players to hot, brand new bands and international acts. This is the festival that has nurtured The Last Dinner Party, Wunderhorse and Kneecap in previous years. It’s an exciting time for the local music scene, and after attending Mutations and seeing a multitude of eclectic bands; 

Editors: Ciara Teefey Four years after escaping the Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine. Director:  Scott Derrickson Genre:  horro

Editors: Ciara Teefey In recent years the idea of an album has been torn up and misconstrued beyond belief. It’s hard to find a new album that isn’t just a messy compilation of songs simply designed to make sales, wrapped in the husk of being an ‘album’. Albums should be a long form celebration of creativity, with each track being worthy of its spot, nobody wants to have to skip a song when listening to an album.  I have compiled 10 albums in no particular order, that I belie

Amid the lockdowns during COVID-19 pandemic, PPE Medpro was contracted to supply medical equipment, including 25 million hospital gowns to the Department of Health and Social Care. The gowns were later tested and found to be “faulty”.