This summer, I eagerly awaited casting announcements for The Hunger Games: On Stage, on Instagram. On July 29, 2025, Mia Carragher was revealed to be playing Katniss. She commented, “I relate to her quite a lot. I think she’s very fearless but then she’s also got that nurturing quality about...
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When the ‘-ber’ months roll around, everyone seems to have something to look forward to. The arrival of autumn, Halloween celebrations, Christmas festivities, or simply just the sense of another year drawing to a close. For me, it’s the extra hour I get in bed when the clocks go back....
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It’s November 17, World Prematurity Day! 22 years ago, my mum was 28 weeks and 5 days pregnant with twins when she suddenly started having contractions. Rushed to the hospital, doctors gave her steroid injections to help their tiny lungs develop. After a night spent in the hospital, my mum...
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After a year of blissful ignorance of real academic pressure, I’m back and am now experiencing what I can only describe as a reverse culture shock. Clearly, not everything stayed the same in my absence. One moment, I was navigating the trams of Gothenburg, the next I was standing in...
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Just when I thought WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! had peaked, Smosh dropped not one but two back-to-back episodes, both of which somehow raised the bar. Titled Black Fog (Part 1 & 2), these episodes saw a rewinding of the clock to explore the events that started it all, and introduced...
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Have you ever gone to see something, a film at the cinema, an artist at a concert, or a musical at the theatre, and thought once just isn’t enough? Over the years, I’ve found myself returning to certain musicals, each time discovering something new about each one. I’ve seen quite...
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What if survival meant never stopping? Not even to eat or sleep. In Stephen King’s dystopian novel, The Long Walk, to survive is to be the last one standing. Maintain a pace of at least 4mph. Slow down or stop, and you get a warning. Accumulate three warnings, and you...
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On 29 August, the Smosh live TTRPG series WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! returned with its most unhinged episode yet. With summer camp horror as the setting and a Jenga tower as the judge, this episode brought teamwork and audience participation to new heights. Once again hosted at Dynasty Typewriter in...
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For long-time fans of Smosh, the return of Smosh Summer Games after a six-year hiatus is nothing short of legendary. As someone who first stumbled across Smosh through the Smosh Summer Games: Wild West series, seeing the gang (old faces and new) back in action has been the highlight of...
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After a spine-chilling pilot episode that had both players and audience on the edge of their seats, Smosh’s horror-comedy tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) series WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! officially launched its first full episode on July 29 2025. Hosted at Dynasty Typewriter (Hayworth Theatre) in LA, this immersive experience mixes...
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Welcome to Dread, a tabletop role-playing game involving just one thing: a Jenga tower. The rules are easy to follow: players must pull blocks from the tower when attempting challenging or risky actions. If the tower stays standing, the player survives and continues. If it falls…the player dies. That’s it....
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Hannah Colechin takes a nostalgic look at DVDs and wonders if physical media is really at its end
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Campus accommodation is undoubtedly the best place to live in your first year, helping you settle into university life, providing general convenience, and, most importantly, serving as a great way to make friends. Choosing the right accommodation is an important decision, and, no pressure, but it will likely have a...
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