Menna Van Praag
Drink: Browns
Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...
DRINK: X’ian Bar
X’ian Bar 197 Banbury Rd (01865) 554239 Those of you who are connoisseurs of Chinese cuisine will certainly know of the X’ian restaurant...
EAT: Gino’s Pizzeria
Gino’s Pizzeria 94 Gloucester Green (01865) 794446 Italian food and Italian restaurants have taken Oxford by storm over the last couple of years,...
Lust in Translation
There are two types of travellers: ‘seers’ and ‘doers’. ‘Doers’ travel because they love adventure, they are drawn to a backpack and the outback...
Ex-Pat-Riotism
Racism is a word that gets bandied about a lot nowadays. And with good reason. It seems as though, despite years of PR about...
A-list gluttony
Natives of LA love to complain about it: the pollution, the superficial, fastpaced lifestyle, the total lack of history and culture. These people live...
No love loss
"Sex without love”, Woody Allen said, “is a meaningless experience; but as meaningless experiences go it’s a pretty good one.” University is an excellent...
Into the Minds of Serial Killers
It’s an age old question: what influences a person’s character? Is it nature or nurture? In a new book released this week Helen Morrison,...
Bored this Trinity? Try… Port Meadow
Summer is here (finally). Time to join every other Oxford student in the University Parks. For those of you who enjoy spending your afternoon...
Basic Instincts
Phobias are, by definition, irrational fears, though it would seem that some are more irrational than others. A fear of heights on the top...
Van Helsing
Never is a cinematic experience more depressing than when the mobile phone advert at the beginning of the film is the best thing about...
DRINK: Maxwell’s
There are so many great things about this stalwart of student alcoholism that it’s hard not to be too gushing in one’s praise. Drinks...
It’s a wonderful world
A new book out this week: Fifty Facts That Should Change the World by Jessica Williams, charts a series of horrifying statistics that gives...
All or Nothing
As vices go, nothing gets the adrenal glands pumping quite as much as gambling. Thoughts of vats of chocolate and gallons of liquor might...
