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

Space

For Caleb Woodbridge

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” said Oscar Wilde. The heavens above have captured the imagination of scientists and poets alike for centuries. But is space travel just a frivolous waste?

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Issue 52 - Front Page

CSS - Let’s make love and listen to Death From Above

Scrummy electropop brilliance: this Brazilian sextet are doing the wise thing in re-releasing a great tunethat fell under the radar back in August. And, oddly enough, it does exactly what it says on the label, makes you want to go out, make love and listen to Death From Above.

The Voices - The Sound of Young America

The Sound of Young Cardiff

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.

Josh Pyke - Memories and Dust

Fishy

Andrew Bird - Armchair Aprocrypha

John

Space

The final frontier for humanity,or a distraction from life on Earth?

Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues: well, let’s just say I was pleasantly surprised. Thinking The Vagina Monologues was going to be full of feminists lecturing about women’s rights, I was initially apprehensive. As it turned out, I was entertained by the real-life experiences of several women and yes, you’ve guessed it, their vaginas.

Angus Mcbean

McBean was one of the most prominent portrait photographers of the

Billy Whizz

Lizzie Pook celebrates the cult legend behind some of the best movies of the last 25 years. All hail Bill Murray...

The World of Books - Australasia

Continuing our look at books from around the world, this week Books goes down under to explore the best of Australasia