The gair rhydd magazine, published by the students of Cardiff University

Love school

It’s that time of year again. The lambs are a-leaping, the sun’s a-shining and the ice-cream vans are out in force while you’re sat inside sweating over your essays/exams/ whatever. Let’s be honest, dating is probably the last thing on your mind. Or is it? Here at Blind Date, we know what you’re thinking as you ‘concentrate’ on that coursework. So put down your books, turn off your laptop and follow our five fool-proof steps to snaring yourself some summer lovin’.

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This Week

Latest Edition

Issue 52 - Front Page

Men are from Mars...

Andy Tweddle studies the state of monogamy and wonders if such a thing is possible in Cardiff’s gay scene

Love Is All

Watching Love is All tonight is rather like eating an ice cream too fast.

In Review: COMMAND & CONQUER 3: TIBERIUM WARS

I’ve looked forward to this game for ages and now I’m disappointed. If this game had been released four years ago it would be hailed as one of the best RTS in history, it would have received plaudits from the most resonant of it’s critics and I would’ve been absolutely chevved.

Drawings

This exhibition offers an exclusive overview of da Vinci’s career and the variety of his subjects and techniques.

The Voices - The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young Cardiff

Life of Si

Film Si fills you in on whats going on in his film infested mind

The Gig-goer

Nick leans on the bar, pint in hand; his head nodding slightly to the music. His face is masked by long, greasy strands of hair, (he tells people that he hasn’t had it cut in over a year with a sense of pride). At last the headlining band come on stage, and Nick downs his pint and lurches forward into the crowd.

Oldies But Goodies/Baddies

Super Mario Brothers

The Fall

It’s 10.20pm at the Point and for 15 minutes a video screen mounted behind the stage has been showing repeated slow motion videos of James Brown, moulded into Pavarotti, blended into Sadaam Hussain – or that’s what it looks like to me.

A Little Less Conversation

Women: It’s time to put the volume firmly on ‘mute’...