Seven Grocery Shopping Hacks You Never Knew You Needed By QUYNH (STEPHANIE) BUI | November 3, 2019 Cover photo by Pixabay Grocery shopping is no easy task – it seems to entail so many calculations: the number of groceries, the budget, the quality of the products and so on. If you are having trouble sorting out this ordeal, I (like the Beatles, with a little help from my friends) devised a list…
Upcoming Concerts to Keep Your Eye On By FILIP DROZDZ | November 2, 2019 Cover photo by “Hello Amsterdam” Paradiso. Music club with a cult status, it hosts hundreds of events annually. There have been a myriad of interesting concerts in Amsterdam throughout September and October. As much as I consider myself a concert-enthusiast (quite an unconventional asset to build one’s personality on, I know) I somehow managed to miss dozens of…
The Legacy of Anti-Semitism By ANNA LEA JAKOBS | November 1, 2019 November 9, 1938 – a night to be remembered. Cities throughout Germany burned: the flames started slowly, but grew rapidly as they consumed the legacy of Jewish culture. On this traumatic night, the “Synagogue am Großen Berlin” in Halle was destroyed. Time jumps 81 years into the future, in the very same city, on October 9, 2019. A heavily armed…
Northampton’s Child Knocks on the Doors of Greatness By FILIP DROZDZ | October 27, 2019 Cover photo from “Nothing Great About Britain” album cover The photo present on the cover of slowthai’s debut album was taken on the Spring Boroughs estate, where he lived as a baby. Slowthai was the eldest of three, raised by a teenage mother. He was an outcast, constantly labeled as a “bad kid.” Now he is the…
The Ultimate Korean Fried Chicken Showdown By QUUYNH (STEPHANIE) BUI | October 27, 2019 Cover Photo by Brandon Oh In recent years, Korean culture has taken the world by storm, and a crucial factor in its success is undoubtedly their renowned savory cuisine. Amsterdam – being the multicultural city that it is – has also seemingly followed this trend as it is the home to many Korean restaurants in the Netherlands.…
Dear Midterm Season, I’m Just Not That Into You. By KAELIN BALAGH | October 27, 2019 Cover Photo from Unsplash It’s the most wonderful time of the… year? Without fail, every exam season I watch fellow students morph into second-grade versions of themselves in the blink of an eye. In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept, imagine a strict diet of sweatpants, plain pasta and isolation. Exams can only signal two things…
