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Contradictory Restaurant Confounds King's Cross

Gabriel Mullins, Culture Editor, BA History 09/12/2024 Just eleven-hundred metres from SOAS has opened The Yellow Bittern, yet another restaurant serving ‘uncomplicated’ food paired with incredibly complicated social signals. The restaurant’s resident poet and chef-in-charge, Hugh Corcoran, aims to return the afternoon diner to an earlier time

Murder of the Dancefloor: Why We are Turning Away From Clubbing

Murder of the Dancefloor: Why We are Turning Away From Clubbing

Jova Bostanci, LLM in Human Rights, Conflict, and Justice 09/12/2024 Since 2020, 480 night clubs have closed across the UK, with 65 closures in 2024 alone. In London, 3,011 nightlife economy businesses shut between 2020 and 2023. As more venues close, the future of nightlife remains uncertain.

Jewish Music Institute: the Seminal Arts Organisation on Fourth Floor

Jewish Music Institute: the Seminal Arts Organisation on Fourth Floor

We attract students to the music programme who wouldn’t have any other place in Europe to study Jewish music in a concentrated way, and certainly not centring on Asia and Africa.

What Have We Here?

What Have We Here?

I’m embedded in a certain culture, I’m not looking down and judging

Living in a Post-Genre World': Ashaine White Breaks Boundaries at the London Jazz Festival

Living in a Post-Genre World': Ashaine White Breaks Boundaries at the London Jazz Festival

Nina Simone said it best: ‘An artist’s job is to reflect the times.

Black History Month: Reclaiming Narratives

Black History Month: Reclaiming Narratives

'In reclaiming the narrative, we are first and foremost stepping up to the plate and being vocal, being the change that we want to see.'

Who Are The Cuban Big Band Bringing Live Music Back to SOAS?

Who Are The Cuban Big Band Bringing Live Music Back to SOAS?

'When groups such as Orquesta Estelar fight for representation, they fill the hole left by the University.'